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Former Attorney General of the Federation and Nigeria’s Minister of Justice, Chief Abimbola Osuolale Richard Akinjide, has died. The 88-year-old legal icon died in his Ibadan home on Tuesday April 21, at about 1.00am after a long struggle with an undisclosed ailment. Born in Ibadan, now Oyo State capital in the early 1930s to an […]
Continue ReadingGunmen have killed an Inspector of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Joseph Ochogwu, in Benue State, Nigeria. The Media Assistant to the Commandant General of the NSCDC in the state, Ekunola Gbenga, who confirmed the incident on Sunday, said that the killers are suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. According to Mr Gbenga, […]
Continue ReadingOil prices plunged further on Monday April 20, as storage space ran low for the glut of crude no longer needed by economies hard hit by Coronavirus. The price of crude oil fell to $11, crashing almost 40 percent in a market flooded with crude and slammed by evaporating demand in the face of the coronavirus […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has extended the closure of airspace and airports in the country by two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, disclosed this on Monday. Sirika said the airports would no longer open for commercial operations on April 23 due to the extended lockdown in the Lagos, Abuja and […]
Continue ReadingNational Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-political group, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, on Monday said Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has further ruined his reputation over his statement that families of dead Coronavirus patients cannot claim their corpses for burial, which was ignored by the Presidency last weekend. Many Nigerians have […]
Continue ReadingSlowly but surely, numerous countries are following the lead of the central Chinese ground zero of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wuhan, by starting to gradually end their lockdown restrictions. Here is an overview: – India – Although India’s national lockdown has been extended until May 3, on Monday workers in key sectors were allowed to go […]
Continue ReadingSome female officers of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), have been queried for participating in #Bopdaddychallenge music video. ‘Bop Daddy’ is the latest song by Nigerian rapper, Folarin Falana popularly known as Falz. And Falz, a trained lawyer himself, is the son of Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights defender, Femi Falana. Falz’s ‘Bop […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man who has been working as a female househelp, got quite unlucky as he was reportedly caught in the act resulting in humiliation. The suspect who was seen crying in a video shared online, was forced to remove his clothes by residents of the neighbourhood. Some of the residents were also heard threatening […]
Continue ReadingGhanaians took to the streets in their numbers to celebrate after the 21-day Coronavirus lockdown order was lifted, though public gatherings are still banned. President Nana Akufo-Addo announced Sunday, April 19, in a televised address, that Ghana is lifting a 21-day lockdown of its biggest cities after the restrictions bought the government enough time to […]
Continue ReadingOn Sunday, 19th April, 2020, eighty six (86) new cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in Nigeria. According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), 70 of the new cases were recorded in Lagos, 7 in the FCT, 3 in Akwa Ibom, 3 in Katsina state, 1 in Jigawa, 1 in Bauchi and 1 […]
Continue ReadingA 68-year-old Nigerian woman has been successfully delivered of twins (male and female) by doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). In a statement released by the Chairman of LUTH’s Medical Advisory Committee, Prof. W. L. Adeyemo, it was gathered that the lady who got pregnant for the first time through In vitro fertilisation […]
Continue ReadingThe worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 160,685 on Sunday, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT. More than 2,334,130 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December. Of these cases, at least 518,900 […]
Continue ReadingA heavy rainfall in Aba, Abia State, Nigeria, has led to a sinkhole appearing in the middle of a major road in Ogbor Hill, just after Waterside in Aba, Nigeria. This can also be called an erosion since it occurred during a heavy rainfall and did not just happen on its own. Residents emerged from […]
Continue ReadingA group of 44 suspected members of Boko Haram, arrested during a recent operation against the terrorist group, have been found dead in their prison cell, Chad’s chief prosecutor announced on Saturday. Speaking on national television, Youssouf Tom said the 44 prisoners had been found dead in their cell on Thursday. They were among a […]
Continue ReadingSome police officers who were seen in a viral video whipping a woman who claimed she was out to “get drugs for her people” in Osun state, have been arrested. In the video of the incident, two policemen could be seen repeatedly flogging the woman with whips and only halted their assault after the intervention […]
Continue ReadingMallam Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff to Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, had reportedly shown signs of recovery and was hours from being discharged from the hospital before his condition unexpectedly got worse and eventually led to his death. According to The Nation, Abba Kyari received some members of his family in the hospital […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Navy on Friday night invaded an Ebonyi Community where a naval officer had gone missing since last month. The invasion followed a painstaking investigation into the missing of the naval officer who went missing in Umuogodoakpu Mgbo in Ohaukwu local government area. The state governor, David Umahi, stated this during his weekly live broadcast […]
Continue ReadingIndividuals, Foundations and Corporate donations to combat Coronavirus in Nigeria has risen to N25.8bn as confirmed in a statement released by Mr. Isaac Okorafor, the Director of Corporate Communications at the Central Bank of Nigeria. In a statement released on Friday, Mr. Okorafor said the coalition “conveys its gratitude to all the institutions and individuals […]
Continue ReadingThe Police Command in Edo state, Nigeria, on Saturday, confirmed the kidnap of Mr Emmanuel Agbale, the Commissioner for Science and Technology in the state. DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, the command’s Public Relations Officer, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin. Nwabuzor said that information available to the […]
Continue ReadingMr. Femi Adesina, Senior Media Aide to Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, announced on Twitter that former Nigerian Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode called to condole with presidency on the death of Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari. Adesina particularly saw this as a moral lesson to learn from because, according to him, Fani-Kayode is anti-Buhari but who […]
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