Saturday, 19 April, 2025

Month: February 2021


Men of the Ondo State Security Network, Amotekun, on Tuesday, arrested two Fulani herdsmen and their cows along the Ijare/Irese road in Ifedore Local Government Area of the state for destroying farmlands. The Commander of the Amotekun Corps in the Read more…


No fewer seven persons were, on Monday evening, kidnapped along Ilesa- Akure express road by armed suspected Fulani herdsmen. The herdsmen said to have abducted travellers who were mainly officials of road transport workers but whose identities are yet to Read more…


A former Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Deputy Governor, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has advised that the ban on cryptocurrency transactions in Nigeria’s banking sector could have been handled in a different manner. He, however, admitted that cryptocurrency poses a threat Read more…


Chief Goddy Uwazuruike, former President of Aka Ikenga in this interview discusses the nomination of the immediate past security chiefs as non-career ambassadors, the extension of service for the otherwise retired Inspector General of Police and other national issues. President Read more…


The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), is presently studying the Russian Sputnik V and India’s Covax vaccines against COVID-19, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says. Ehanire made the disclosure at the Presidential Task Read more…


Azerbaijan has given the go-ahead to the world’s first clinical trials combining two Covid-19 vaccines, with the country set to test inoculation using both Russia’s Sputnik V and the AstraZeneca-Oxford University jab. Cooperation between the two vaccine producers was first Read more…


Madam Stella Omoigui, the mother of an 11-year-old schoolboy, Master Osasu Omoigui who was hit by police stray bullet in his genitals during the last October #EndSARS protest has demanded for N50 million compensation from the Edo State Judicial Panel Read more…


The Leader of the Senate, Yahaya Abdullahi, has said that the red chamber will discuss the issue of Fulani herdsmen menace across the country on resumption on Tuesday. Abdullahi, who spoke with journalists in his office, said his deputy who Read more…


The Chief Magistrate Court, Kaduna under the supervision of Mr Benjamin Hassan has adjourned the case brought before it against five suspects who were accused of organizing sex party to February 22, 2021 for hearing. When the case came up Read more…


A Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed April 13 to hear an application seeking forfeiture of the $5,781,173.55 and the N2.4billion said to have been illegally acquired by former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. Justice Chuka Obiozor fixed the Read more…


Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has called on the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to allow Governors in the party to supervise the congresses and governorship primary in Anambra State. He said winning the November governorship Read more…


All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has won Saturday by-election into the House of Representatives seat for Magama/Rijau Federal Constituency in Niger State.APGA defeated the ADC and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the result released by the Independent National Electoral Read more…