LThe United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has predicted that no fewer than 21,439 new babies would be born in Nigeria on new year day. Globally, UNICEF said that an estimated 371,504 babies, would be born on the New Year’s Day and Nigerian babies will account for nearly six per cent of the figure. It said…
The Defence Headquarters has said that troops of Operation Hadarin Daji have rescued ten kidnapped victims from bandits, eliminated one of the bandits and arrested one in Katsina and Zamfara States. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Friday, said the operations were conducted on Thursday at different locations. He…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2021 New Year address as empty, directionless. PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said Buhari’s address was a confirmation that Nigeria has become “leaderless.” Ologbondiyan lamented that it was appalling that on New Year Day, all Buhari could offer a troubled and frustrated nation was…
Eleven persons were on Friday seriously injured in a multiple motor accident in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra state. The accident which occurred around 2 pm opposite a Catholic Church in the area involved six vehicles with fifty-two persons on board. An eyewitness said the crash was caused by excessive speeding resulting in…
The State Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abia State Command; Mr. Vincent Ogu has stated that his command arrested 126 suspected pipeline vandals/oil thieves in the year 2020. Ogu who disclosed this at the command’s headquarters in Umuahia, the state capital in a chat on Friday with journalists while speaking on the…
Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwo land has invited neglected youths in his domain for dining and wining today. The monarch vowed to rehabilitate the boys, who have been branded thugs. In a statement, he said that his palace has set funds aside for this class of people, emphasizing that being a royal…
President-Elect of the United States, Joe Biden, has named a Nigerian-American, Osaremen Okolo as his COVID-19 policy advisor. Okolo was among 100 names announced as additional members of the White House staff by the Biden transition team on Wednesday. Biden is expected to be sworn-in on January 20. Okolo, born to Nigerian parents, currently serves…
Prophet Temitope Joshua, a.k.a, TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, has revealed to the world what God showed him concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing his followers virtually in the New Year, the cleric said the ‘affliction’ has three stages. According to him, while the first phase is coming to an end,…
President Muhammadu Buhari used his New Year speech on Friday to once again make promises to Nigerian youths to bequeath to them a nation in which their future is secured. Buhari, whose government has come out with several programmes to empower Nigerian youths, such as N-Power, CBN financed Youth Investment Fund and others, re-affirmed his…
On the 31st of December 2020, 1031 new confirmed cases and 11 deaths and 391 discharged were recorded in Nigeria. Till date, 87510 cases have been confirmed, 73713 cases have been discharged and 1289 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The 1031 new cases are reported from 16 states-…