The Kaduna State Government has announced measures to help stem Covid-19 infections through voluntary mass compliance, and thereby avert a lockdown.
The Covid-19 prevention measures were announced yesterday at live media chat hosted by Governor Nasir El-Rufai and Deputy Governor Dr. Hadiza Balarabe. The event also feature Commissioner of Health...
To mark his 71st birthday, President-elect Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed that special prayers and thanksgiving service be held on Wednesday March 29, 2023, instead of the yearly birthday colloquium.
The special prayers will be held in Lagos and in other parts of the country.
A statement from his office...
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday received the United Nations-backed ‘HeforShe’ award for his efforts and cabinet picks which have mainstreamed gender inclusion in the state’s political structure.
The award was conferred on the Governor in Ilorin, the state capital, when the Minister of Women Affairs Dame Pauline Tallen...
Controversial hip hop artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, says he has learnt his lesson.
Portable said this shortly after he was released from Ilaro Prison in Ogun State, on Monday.
We reported how a magistrate’s court sitting in Ifo in Ifo Local government area of Ogun state granted him...
The Federal Government has imposed new restrictions amid the rising cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in various parts of the country.
Mr Boss Mustapha, who is the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, announced this on Monday at the briefing of the task force in Abuja, the nation’s...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has rubbished Senator Dino Melaye’s alleged governorship ambition, saying the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain does not have what it takes to contest for the Kogi state’s governorship.
Wike disclose this during a live media chat with selected journalists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
He...
President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the mandate of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 “for a further period till the end of March, 2021 bearing in mind the new surge in the number of cases and the bid for vaccines.”
The President disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja while receiving...
The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has challenged the competence of a petition the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Peter Obi, filed to nullify his election.
Tinubu, in a preliminary objection he filed alongside his Vice-President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, maintained that Obi was bereft of the locus standing to file a...
Ogun State Government has suspended the Honourable Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, from office pending the conclusion of an independent investigation into an allegation of sexual harassment of a 16-year old Barakat Mayowa Melojuekun.
In a statement issued in Abeokuta on Sunday, the Secretary to the State Government, Mr....
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Wase, has insisted that he won’t step down for any contender in the race for the 10th National Assembly speaker position.
He disclosed this to State House correspondents on Friday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Recall...
