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Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of the new service chiefs following the consideration of the report of the Committee on Defence which recommended their confirmation. The new service chiefs are Maj. Gen. Lucky Eluonye Onyenuchea lrabor as Chief of Defence Staff; Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru (Chief of Army Staff); Rear Admiral Awwal Zubairu […]
Continue ReadingNigeria has received its first batch of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and shipped through the COVAX Facility, in a working partnership with CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO. The 3.92 million doses of the vaccines arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on board an Emirates Boeing 777-300 on Tuesday afternoon […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, is presently in a closed-door meeting with ex-Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Saraki arrived Obasanjo’s Penthouse in the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta this afternoon The former senate president is presently in a closed-door meeting with the former president. Reason or reasons for the closed-door meeting is […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha and other prominent Nigerians will be receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on live television on Saturday March 6. Executive Director/CEO, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib disclosed this on Monday March 1 at the joint […]
Continue ReadingNigerian prolific writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has lost her mother, Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie. The mother of the renowned Nigerian novelist died on Monday, March 1, in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. She was 78 years old. “It was very sudden and we are devastated,” a family spokesperson said according to Guardian. She is survived by […]
Continue ReadingA middle-aged man, Hassan Saka, was arrested in Ondo state for being in possession of two human heads on Monday, March 1. The arrest was effected by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the state. The exhibits were discovered in a vehicle along Owo/Akure road, concealed in a brown carton. Confirming the arrest, […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian lady who works with the Central Bank of Ireland, has expressed her excitement after winning the bank’s highest award. According to @Nono_Okeke_29, she won the “Spotlight Award” which is the highest award you can ever win as an employee of the Central Bank of Ireland. She also dedicated the award to Director-General of […]
Continue ReadingFormer French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on Monday and handed a three-year prison sentence after a court in Paris convicted him for trying to illegally influence a judge during his time in office. The sentence includes two years suspended, which means it is unlikely Sarkozy will physically go to prison. He […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Delta State Police Command at the weekend exhumed the decomposing body of a 54-year-old woman killed and buried in a shallow grave by kidnappers after collecting N650,000 ransom from her family. The woman identified as Mrs Philomina Ogadi from Otolokpo in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta was abducted last week by a […]
Continue ReadingYoruba socio-political group, Afenifere; Yoruba Youths Leader (YYL) and activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho; the Are Ona Kankanfo, Iba Gani Adams; and the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) under the leadership of Prince Segun Osinbote are set to launch a campaign against cows. There is an advertorial to that extent which was published in The […]
Continue ReadingPopular Nigerian music producer, Ayorinde Faboro popularly known as Dr Frabz is dead. The death of the prolific music producer was confirmed to The Punch by his colleague, Samklef. However, according to a tweet by popular singer Nikki Laoye, the music producer was shot. She wrote: “Oh my God persevering face… My dear brother, Dr […]
Continue ReadingArmed bandits have killed seven persons including a Catholic lector in Igabi and Kajuru local government areas of Kaduna State. The State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed the incidents in a statement on Sunday February 28, said bandits attacked Kajinjiri village in Igabi and killed two residents identified as Ibrahim Rabi’u and Abdulrahman […]
Continue ReadingAt least two persons have died in a road accident that involved a commercial bus and a car along Ado Ekiti-Iworoko Road on Sunday. Eyewitnesses said about 12 persons, who sustained varying degrees of injuries in the fatal accident, which occurred close to the gate of Ekiti State University, had been rushed to a hospital […]
Continue ReadingKidnapped schoolgirls of the Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State have been released and were first taken to the palace of the Emir of Anka waiting for transportation to Gusau, the state capital. The girls who were kidnapped on Friday were believed to have been taken to a forest between Dangulbi and Sabon Birnin […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has expressed how disappointed he is with the increased abductions of school children in the country. Soyinka who spoke during an award lecture and public presentation of his latest book, ‘Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth’, held in Ogun state on Saturday February 27, said Nigerians are close […]
Continue ReadingA Twitter user, Lady Tsunade @Ms_Ogunz has shared photos which showed state of Third Mainland Bridge after it was reopened today February 27, after 6 months of repair. The photos she shared showed potholes on the bridge. @Ms_Ogunz wrote: “6 months of closure and this??? O ma ga o!!! Not people here saying that this […]
Continue ReadingPan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has said northerners can withdraw their cows from the South but should not forget that the southern states produce petroleum, the country’s economic mainstay. The Cattle and Foodstuff dealers under the aegis of Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) on Thursday, February 25, began a nationwide strike […]
Continue ReadingA High Court of Lagos State has restricted Mrs. Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, daughter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, from imposing levies on traders at the Computer Village, Lagos. Others who were similarly restricted from imposing levies include: Mrs. Bisola Azeez, Mr. Adeniyi Olasoji, Nofiu Akinsanya, Tony Ikani and the Commissioner of […]
Continue ReadingAbdullahi Ganduje, the Kano State Governor, has sacked his Special Adviser on Media, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, barely a day after the aide criticised Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, for his failure to end the security crisis rocking the country. Kano state commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, who conveyed the governor’s directive in a statement Saturday, said […]
Continue ReadingAt last, the Niger state government has received freed 27 students and three teachers of the Government Science College, Kagara, Niger state, who were abducted last Wednesday, February 17. One of the female abductees was said to have been rushed to the General Hospital for urgent treatment because her health condition was reportedly critical. They […]
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