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A Police officer has been arrested for assaulting a ports worker who was picking up his friend who works with a medical equipment company in Lagos. Recall that President Buhari who issued a lockdown order in Lagos, Ogun state and Abuja, stated that seaports in Lagos shall remain operational. Hospitals and all related medical establishments […]
Continue ReadingKogi State governor, Mr. Yahaya Bello, has ordered a fast investigation into the allegation of battering of a beauty queen, Elizabeth Oyeniyi, by the state Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr. Abdumumini Danga. The beauty queen had accused the Commissioner of assaulting and raping her over a Facebook comment she made. Oyeniyi said: “I left Abuja […]
Continue ReadingAn Osun High Court on Thursday April 2, sentenced two men to death by hanging after being found guilty of murder. The men identified as Elijah Oyebode, 25, Yusuf Ajibade, 28, and Jelili Raji, 35 were first arraigned on November 14, 2017 on three-count-charge of conspiracy to commit murder, murder and stealing. They were accused of killing one […]
Continue ReadingAn Italian nurse allegedly strangled his doctor girlfriend to death because “she gave him Coronavirus.” After committing the crime, 28-year-old Antonio De Pace reportedly called cops to tell them he had murdered young medic, Lorena Quaranta, 27. When Police arrived at the scene, they found her dead in their apartment in Italy, while De Pace was […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State government has confirmed the third case of coronavirus at one of its isolation centres. Ekiti state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said a 23-year-old male suspect has been placed on symptomatic treatment and investigation. Dr Yaya-Kolade also said the second person, who fell victim of the disease in the state, as announced […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has fired back at at the Playwright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over his comments on the 14-day lockdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that he is not an expert in that area. The Presidency told Prof. Soyinka that he lacked professional competence to kick against the decision of the President […]
Continue ReadingA woman said to be a single mother-of-three attempted suicide by jumping into the Osun river in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria over her inability to continue providing for her children due to the lockdown. Kafayat Alake jumped into the river yesterday, April 1, a few hours after the state government imposed a stay-at-home order on residents […]
Continue ReadingNigeria has recorded 23 new cases of Covid-19. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 174. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced the new cases on Wednesday night. Of the new cases, 9 are in Lagos, 7 in the FCT, 5 in Akwa Ibom, 1 in Kaduna and 1 in Bauchi State […]
Continue ReadingFormer Somali Prime Minister, Mr. Nur Hussein, died on Wednesday in Britain, about a week after being diagnosed with COVID-19. According to reports, Hussein’s family confirmed the death at King’s College Hospital in London. The former Prime Minister served between November 2007 and February 2009 in the transitional government of Somalia. The current Somali Prime […]
Continue ReadingOne of Nigeria’s renowned power-lifters and star at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, Ndidi Nwosu, is dead. The death of Nwosu was confirmed by Queen Uboh, the former President of the Nigeria Powerlifting Federation. According to Ms Uboh, the husband of the late powerlifter Ikechukwu Nwosu, called her to convey the sad […]
Continue ReadingNigerian judge, Justice M.S Sifawa of the Sokoto State High Court, Tuesday sentenced one Freedom Inah to 10 years imprisonment over N1.8 million fraud. Inah, who works as a travel agent of the Gulf Centre International Travel and Tourism, United Arab Emirate (UAE) and Top Valley Speciality Hospital, UAE, was arraigned by the Economic and […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Tuesday suspended the planned increase in the electricity tariffs paid by Nigerians, earlier scheduled to commence Wednesday, April 1. In the directive tagged /198/2020, the regulatory agency noted that following the global effects of the coronavirus and the negative effect it is having on Nigerians and the industry, the right […]
Continue ReadingThe driver who drove the truck that contained explosives which wrecked havoc at Eleyewo community in Akure North local government area on Saturday March 28, has disclosed that he didn’t know what he was transporting. Isiaka Yunusa has already undergone a surgery to remove a shrapnel from his stomach as he was rushed to the hospital […]
Continue ReadingNigerian government has commenced the disbursement of N20,000 Conditional Cash Transfer to poor Nigerians at the Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday March 29, announced that some palliative measures will be put in place to help cushion the economic effect of the sit-at-home order which began […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said that an American who tested positive for coronavirus has been evacuated to the United States. Abayomi made this known while giving an update on his Twitter handle on Wednesday. The commissioner said the last confirmed coronavirus case recorded in the state was on Tuesday. Hear […]
Continue ReadingNational Coordinator of Nigerian Sex Workers Association (NSWA), Amaka Enemo, said sex workers in the country have been forced to suspend activities, especially in Lagos and Abuja due to the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Enemo told The Punch on Tuesday that although sex workers offer “essential services” they will remain indoors because their […]
Continue ReadingThe only patient with positive case of coronavirus in Ekiti State was on Tuesday discharged. The patient, who has been receiving treatment since March 18, 2020 at the Ekiti State Infection Disease Control Centre in Oba Adejuyigbe General Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, has been discharged, having been treated of the deadly disease. The patient, according to the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian-born medical doctor, Dr. Alfa Sa’adu, has died of coronavirus in the United Kingdom. Dr. Sa’adu died in London on Tuesday at the age of 68 and was until his death a physician at the Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. “Today at approx.. 7.30am, Dr. Alfa Saadu (my dad) died of the Coronavirus. He had […]
Continue ReadingThe Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, has asked God to spare the world of the coronavirus pandemic and he offered himself to be inflicted with the virus so the rest of the world can be free. The monarch said this in a video making the rounds on Twitter. The only way one can […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Naira plunged further in value on Monday March 30, as it exchanged at N412 for a dollar following a temporary suspension of sale of forex to the Bureau De Change operators in the country by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Recall that the apex bank had pegged the exchange rate of the Naira at N380 to […]
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