Monday, 24 February, 2025

Month: January 2021


Former governor of Kano state and current Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Senator Kabiru Gaya has expressed his desire for the Southern region of the country to produce the next President of Nigeria. The Kano South Senator said Read more…


The Ministry of Defense in Belarus announced on Thursday that it is at an advanced stage of negotiations with Russia to obtain one of the world’s most sophisticated anti-aircraft missile systems. Igor Golub, the commander of the country’s Air Force, Read more…


Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has successfully destroyed naval targets amid massive military drills. Mock warships were moored some 1,800 km from the ballistic missiles launch site. The tests were carried out on Saturday as part of large-scale Read more…


An Onitsha-based media consultant, Comrade Egbuna Daniel, has warned against the politicization of the death of Prof Martin Ifeanyichukwu, who allegedly died of Covid-19 related complications. Comrade Daniels said that it is worrisome that some persons are making attempts to Read more…


The Kwara Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it has transferred the case of alleged child abduction to the court for proper adjudication. Mr Ayeni Olasunkanmi, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command, disclosed this Read more…


The Lagos State Police Command had last Saturday raided the club located at Ajose Adeogun, Victoria Island and arrested some clubbers and strippers at the club. But the club’s Executive Chairman, Bruno Roy Owede, in a statement issued on Friday, Read more…


Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State has joined calls from different quarters in the country for the sack of the heads of security agencies in the country by the President. He explained that the Federal Government needed to change the Read more…


Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday said the state government will participate fully in all the programmes leading to the final burial of the former military administrator of the state, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd). Kanu, an elder Read more…


Some gunmen on Friday attacked Ogila-ama community in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. It was gathered that the armed men stormed the coastal community in three speed boats and shot sporadically before setting some buildings on Read more…


Three international oil companies operating in Nigeria have sold their combined 45 per cent interest in Oil Mining Lease 17 and related assets in the Eastern Niger Delta to TNOG Oil and Gas Limited, an integrated energy company founded by Read more…


US tech and health behemoths have joined forces to roll out yet another Covid-19 vaccination passport, dangling a return to international travel but raising more questions about the future of privacy. Along with healthcare nonprofit Mayo Clinic, health and tech Read more…


The UK will shut all of its remaining international travel corridors from 4am GMT on Monday until at least February 15, in a bid to shield the country from new coronavirus variants, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday. The Read more…