One of the two confirmed Covid-19 cases in Niger State has now tested negative of the virus, awaiting a confirmatory test to be declared free of the virus, the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Mohammed Makusidi, said on Tuesday while briefing Governor Sani Bello and the Covid-19 Taskforce Committee. Dr. Makusidi...
as he inspects 25Km Ilishan-Ago Iwoye road Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun says his administration will not discriminate in the construction of roads regardless of their status as far as they have potentials that will promote economic activities in the State The governor who stated this when he inspected the...
we will abide by govt directive—Chairman Disciplinary Committee The media sub-committee of the Oyo State Task Force Committee on Covid-19, on Wednesday, kickstarted another round of sensitisation drive among transport unions including Park Managers, Quarry Tipper Drivers, and commercial motorcycle riders under the aegis of the Amalgamated Commercial Motorcycles...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate seeking the confirmation of seven ministerial nominees. The nominees are: Henry Ikechukwu – Abia State, Umana Okon Umana – Akwa-Ibom State; Ekuma Joseph – Ebonyi State; Goodluck Nana Obia – Imo State; Umar Ibrahim Yakub – Kano State; Ademola Adewole Adegorioye –...
Forty-six staff of Gotel Communications, a media outfit owned by Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, have been sacked by the organisation. Gotel Communication is a television and radio broadcast conglomerate transmitting from Yola, the Adamawa State capital. The affected staff were handed their respective sack letters on Friday, being Workers...
6,000 benefit in first round At least 6,000 crop and livestock farmers in Kwara State have benefited from the first round of government and World Bank-enabled support along agricultural value chains, with Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq saying it was part of the measures to strengthen food security and protect vulnerable...
Debora Moreira, a Brazilian victim of internet fraud, has acknowledged the receipt of the sum of $4,040 which was recovered on her behalf by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Moreira lost the money to Emmanuel Tope, a convicted fraudster, in a romance...
R&B star, R Kelly, on Wednesday, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking. This is coming months after he was convicted on all nine-count charge in a high-profile sex trafficking case According to prosecutors, the American artiste “preyed upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification...
The Nigerian government has received $311,797,866.11 recovered assets of General Sani Abacha repatriated from the United States and the Bailiwick of Jersey. The Attorney-General of Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, confirmed this on Monday in a statement by the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations at his...
say they can't be neutral in the face of physical realities Students under the umbrella of National Association of Nigeria Students/Joint Campus Committee, (NANS/JCC), Osun Axis, and the National Association of Osun State Students (NAOSS) on Thursday passed vote of confidence in the administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, saying...