More than 50 percent of health complications reported across public hospitals resulted from poorly treated malaria-related cases, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said on Thursday, reiterating his commitment to the global fight against the disease that experts say is number one killer in sub-Saharan Africa. The governor spoke in Ilorin at the...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has expressed delight over the decision by three international oil companies to collaborate in establishing a COVID-19 Treatment Centre in Bonny Local Government Area of the state. The companies are the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas company, NLNG, the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and...
President Muhammadu Buhari has reshuffled his cabinet, following the resignation of some ministers who expressed interest to contest elective offices in the 2023 general elections. Recall that Messrs Rotimi Amaechi, Ogbonnaya Onu and Godswill Akpabio had resigned their ministerial appointments to contest in the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primaries. Two...
The new management of Harmony Holdings Limited (HHL) under Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mallam Abdullahi Abdulmajeed has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the mindless and unchallenged mismanagement of Kwara Hotels, one of its subsidiary companies by KH Integrated Management Services (KHMIS) and...
The trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, (PRTT) continued on Thursday, December 3, 2020, with the prosecution witness nine (PW9), Rouqayyah Ibrahim, telling the Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Okong Abang how Maina acquired properties in Dubai, United Arab Emirate, United States...
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has approved the appointment of Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government. The appointment of the two-term Senator, representing Ekiti North Senatorial District, takes immediate effect. Senator Adetunmbi, however, will not draw any salary from the State Government as he has voluntarily...
The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has urged the new Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri to run an all-inclusive government. Secondus spoke in Abuja on Friday while receiving Diri and his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo at the party’s campaign headquarters, Legacy House shortly...
Congress Committee chair calls for peaceful process Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State on Friday agreed to adopt consensus candidates for ward congresses slated for Saturday across the 16 local government areas of the state. This comes as the chairman of the Kwara APC Ward congress...
As part of efforts to appreciate the role being played by security personnel during the lockdown in Ogun State as well as mitigate its economic effects on their families, the State Government has donated some food items to officers across all security outfits operating in the State. Donating the food...
Roman Abramovich, has handed over the “stewardship and care” of Chelsea to the trustees of its charitable foundation. This was announced in a statement posted on the website of the European champions on Saturday. The six new rulers of the Stamford Bridge club are chairman Bruce Buck , Blues’ women’s boss...