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Nigerian Government has summoned the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Zhou Pingjian over reports of maltreatment of Nigerians resident in China. Nigerians in China who had traveled there for business purposes a few days before the federal government announced a lockdown are accusing Chinese authorities of maltreatment, just as they said the Nigerian government did […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has released the names of Nigerians who died from Coronavirus complications abroad, as it mourns them. Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has put a list of Nigerians who have died from the virus in a video she shared on Twitter in their remembrance. She wrote: “May the […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights activist, Segun Awosanya a.k.a Segalink has slammed Presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad after he defended the arrival of Chinese doctors in Nigeria to help in the fight against Coronavirus. This is coming after President Buhari’s Special Assistant on Digital/New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi countered Segalink on his tweet which suggested that “the federal government imported chinese […]
Continue ReadingSouth African President, Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended one of his top ministers for two months, including one unpaid, after she was photographed having lunch with a friend in violation of a national lockdown to contain the coronavirus. Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams was summoned to explain herself on Tuesday after Mduduzi Manana, […]
Continue ReadingA trio of suspected robbers, made up of one woman and three men, were allegedly caught robbing along Benin-Auchi road and they were beaten and disgraced. The alleged gang of robbers, also known as “one chance”, operate a taxi which they use in robbing unsuspecting passengers. They were caught after they robbed a woman and tried throwing […]
Continue ReadingThe Consul-General of Nigeria in Guangzhou, China, Mr Anozie Madaubuchi Cyril has confronted some Chinese officials days after a video of Nigerians being sent out of their apartments in the Asian country went viral on social media. Mr Cyril accused the Chinese officials of targeting Nigerians in the wake of Coronavirus which began in the country. The ambassador […]
Continue Reading35-year-old-man simply identified as Sunday had allegedly murdered the Onibedo of Ilotin, Ikole Ekiti, Chief Sola Fatunla in a farm in Ikole Ekiti, headquarters of Ikole local government area of the state after he accused him of snatching his wife. According to Leadership, Fatunla’s corpse was set ablaze by a gang, led by Sunday a […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Government has granted amnesty to no fewer than 2,600 inmates as part of measures to decongest prison facilities in Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, announced this at a press conference which held at the headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Abuja today April 9. According to the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos), on Wednesday said they have aligned with the federal government to provide a two-month rebate of free electricity to their customers nationwide. In a statement by the Executive Director, Research and Advocacy at the Association of Nigeiarian Electricity Distributors (ANED), Barrister Sunday Oduntan, said the decision was in recognition of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Lagos State governorship candidate, Babatunde Gbadamosi and his wife, Sade Gbadamosi; and singer Azeez Fasola aka Naira Marley, were charged before the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Ogba for attending a crowded birthday party in violation of the government’s social distancing directive to check the spread of coronavirus. They were scheduled for arraignment on […]
Continue Reading22 new cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Lagos, Abuja, Edo and Bauchi by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) As at 09:00pm on April 8, there are 276 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria. 44 patients have been discharged, and 6 deaths have been recorded. Here is a breakdown of cases across states in the […]
Continue ReadingThe Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Nigerians to” hold President Buhari responsible” should there be any upsurge in the number of COVID-19 infection and deaths in the country. The party said this while reacting to the arrival of 15 medical doctors from China today. In a statement released by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday April 8, […]
Continue ReadingThe Treasury House which is the office of the Accountant General of the Federation in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja was gutted by fire this morning, Wednesday, April 8. According to reports, the fire started from the third floor, razing the building upwards including the Accountant General’s office and most of the important offices. The cause […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Finance during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration and President Goodluck Jonathan’s Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has shown, using Rwanda as example, how food distribution should be responsibly done to assist lower income households, and to give way for safe social distancing. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala also wrote in same […]
Continue ReadingA Taxi driver was reportedly beaten to death yesterday by security operatives, for carrying passengers who were not wearing face masks. An eyewitness @ayebechristopher, revealed that the incident occurred at Marian in Calabar, Cross River State’s capital. He said the driver who was wearing a face mask when he was stopped, was beaten by security […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian-born British healthworker, Carol Jamabo has reportedly died from COVID-19 complications in the United Kingdom. The 56-year-old mother of two and community caregiver at the Cherish Elderly Care in Bury, Greater Manchester, died last Wednesday after testing positive for Coronavirus. The late caregiver who moved to the UK from Nigeria in the early 1990s, was a key worker […]
Continue ReadingOndo State Police command has denied the arrest of suspected killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. Their statement has disagreed with the claim of the National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, that four suspects including Mrs. Olakunrin’s driver had been […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday April 4, Uganda woke up to the gruesome photos of women and men at Elegu border with South Sudan who were pulled out of their houses, beaten and rolled on a muddy ground by security forces under the pretext of enforcing the President’s directives on coronavirus and curfew. Since March 30 when President […]
Continue ReadingA 64-year-old Nigerian woman, Mmaete Greg, has died of coronavirus in the UK. According to family sources, she died on Monday April 6. A close relative to the deceased, Edoamaowo Udeme, who took to Facebook to mourn her death, said the husband and children of the deceased have been quarantined. May her soul rest in peace, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s National assembly leaders have faulted the federal government’s Social Intervention Programme, which includes the Conditional Cash Transfer programme to poor households as one of the palliative measures against the outbreak of Coronavirus in the country. In a meeting held on Tuesday April 7 with the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia […]
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