Saturday, 23 November, 2024

Month: December 2020


The Federal Government on Friday called on Nigerians to empathise with and appreciate personnel of the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies instead of victimising them. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made the call  Read more…


The Senator representing Borno South, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has commended the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and the INTERPOL for the arrest and extradition of the former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, back to Nigeria. Read more…


Suspected gunmen yesterday, kidnapped a pregnant woman in Benin City, Edo State. The pregnant woman, Mrs Uju Okwudili was kidnapped in the early hours of yesterday along Airport road while taking her children to school. It was further learnt that Read more…


One Mr. Nathaniel Solomon has told of how he saw about four bodies on the ground when he went to pick his brother’s remains at Lekki Tollgate in the aftermath of the shootings by soldiers on October 20. Solomon was Read more…


The US State Department has announced yet another round of sanctions on Chinese officials said to be involved in “coercive influence activities,” demanding Beijing cease suppressing ‘freedom of expression.’ The department has sanctioned several Chinese officials, accusing them of using Read more…


The top executives of Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson said in an NBC News interview that even after their companies developed potential Covid-19 vaccines at a breakneck pace, some of their biggest challenges still lie ahead, including quickly producing Read more…


The need for constant check of HIV/AIDS status, while faithfully following preventive measures, especially protected sex has been emphasized, as the International Community observed World AIDS Day . Correspondent Kenechukwu Chukwudi reports that the day aimed at creating awareness on Read more…


NAIRA reversed its two weeks’ loss to the dollar in the parallel market yesterday, appreciating by N20 to N470 per dollar. President of the Association of Bureaux-De-Change Operators of Nigeria, ABCON, Aminu Gwadabe, said the appreciation of the naira shows Read more…


GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, yesterday faulted the claim that his bank obtained court orders blocking accounts associated with promoters of the #EndSARS protests. Emefiele’s position was stated by his lawyer, former Attorney General of Read more…


Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has again disclosed that bandits now rule in some communities in the North. The traditional ruler, who was reacting to the killings of over 43 rice farmers in Borno State, lamented that Read more…


Three suspects arrested for allegedly detonating explosives in Governor Nyesom Wike’s father’s church in Rivers State said they engaged in the act to get juicy appointments in the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The suspects made the confessional statements Read more…


To suggest to thinking Nigerians that the best their political leaders are thinking about the solution to the problems of their country is to bring back the leadership most people organized to remove in 2015 underrates their intelligence. It is also ironically Read more…