Friday, 27 December, 2024

Month: December 2020


Some Customs officers serving at the Federal Operations Unit Zone “A’’ of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have been attacked by hoodlums working with smugglers. Deputy Comptroller, Usman Yahaya, made the disclosure in a statement by Mr Theophilus Duniya, Public Read more…


Nigerians have condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu for describing Leah Sharibu, the only Christian girl among the Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2018 as “Unfortunate Christian girl”. Shehu who was responding to a Tweet by Reno Read more…


Nigeria-British boxer, Anthony Joshua, has got a street named after him in Sagamu Local government Area of Ogun State. The Council Chairman, Gbenga Banjo announced that the Cinema Road in the council has now become “Anthony Joshua Way”. Speaking at Read more…


FILE PHOTO © AFP / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS Follow RT onA post-Brexit trade deal between the EU and UK have been reached, the media is reporting, according to sources from No. 10 Downing Street. Reports came out of Downing Street, the Read more…


French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed sending fighter planes on a flyover mission in the Central African Republic, as a show of condemnation of “attempts to destabilize” the country ahead of a general election. Macron “ordered a flyover of Central African Read more…


Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top health officials have been inoculated with Moderna’s newly approved Covid-19 vaccine, kickstarting its rollout. The top US virologist received the jab along with Health Read more…


Following the turnout and outcome of the last By-Election held across the States that also witnessed a low voters turnout by the youths, a popular youth leaders and entrepreneur,  Kingsley Obiukwu, has called on the Nigerian youths to take governance Read more…


President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a flurry of pardons and commutations to a slew of controversial figures with ties to his administration, in a move that further cements his legacy of exercising his sweeping powers to benefit his political Read more…


The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered the immediate unsealing of Crushed Rock Industries Nig Ltd, a mining company situated at Isiagu, Ebonyi State, which it held was illegally shut down on March 11 by the state government. Read more…


Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, says six hundred personnel will be deployed to Anambra State to ensure the free flow of traffic during the yuletide, particular at the bridgehead Onitsha. Oyeyemi stated this Read more…


Operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested two suspects, Onumajuru Godwin, 61, and Agubosim Chukwuemeka, 41, both of Eziama Obiato in Mbaitoli Local Government Area for allegedly beheading a yet-to-be identified victim, which they had subsequently planted in the Read more…


Buffeted by economic ill-fortune, terrorism, illiteracy, poverty, banditry, and kidnapping, Nigeria is teetering on the brink and risks becoming a failed state if things don’t take a drastic turn. This was the view of the London Financial Times yesterday in Read more…