Sunday, 22 December, 2024

Month: November 2020


About 80 people have lost their lives in a road accident that occurred in Enugu State between January and October 2020. This was disclosed by the Sector Commander of FRSC Enugu State Command, Mr Kalu Ogbonnaya, at the flag-off of Read more…


The Kingdom of Netherlands on Thursday officially presented a smuggled Ife Terracotta antiquity dated to be at least 600 years old to Nigeria. The repatriated antiquity was presented to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed at a ceremony held Read more…


IT is over one month since the shooting at the Lekki Toll Plaza during the #ENDSARS Protests. The shooting shook the nation, with many people wondering the need for it as the protesters who gathered at the plaza were peaceful. Read more…


***calls for commencement of reconstruction, reconciliation This was made known by the National Coordinator, CAGG, Nazir Galadanchi, at a press conference held in Abuja, while speaking on the need to embark on reconstruction and reconciliation mission by the government. According Read more…


The brinkmanship over President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees for the chairman, and national commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is expected to shift to the National Assembly from this week.  President Buhari had nominated Professor Mahmood Yakubu for a second Read more…


Former Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagi, has taken exception to allegations by a British lawmaker Tom Tugendhat, that former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon “looted half of the Central Bank of Nigeria,” while he held sway as Read more…


The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, on Thursday, visited the Oyo State Police Command, Ibadan to encourage his men to go back to their duties with courage and rid the nation of criminals. He also listed conditions in which Read more…


The Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca will be tested again, the drug maker’s CEO said on Thursday, following growing doubts over the jab, due to dosing and data-handling errors. The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant is to run Read more…


U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden, the closest he has come to conceding the Nov. 3 election, even as he repeated unfounded claims of Read more…


As Anambra state Judicial Panel Of Inquiry on Police Police Brutality At Brutality, Extra Judicial killings and Other Related Matters continued their public hearing in Awka, petitions of extra judicial killings by the defunct Special Anti Robbery Squad, Anambra state Read more…


The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has expressed disappointment at the absence of Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, at the South-South stakeholders meeting with the Presidency held in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. The party said Amaechi received the presidential Read more…


• Decries worsening insecurity, economic downturn Former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, has said Igbo Presidency is possible and realisable if South-East leaders negotiate and dialogue with people of the North. “There is clamour for Igbo Presidency today. I believe it Read more…