A 27-year-old man has been crushed to death by a vehicle conveying two policemen in the Eziorsu community in the Oguta council of Imo State. The policemen were said to be hurriedly getting away from the scene of a breached pipeline when their vehicle ran over the deceased identified as Chinedu Nwedu. The incident happened last…
By reducing the ex-depot price of petrol without announcing a new price band for the commodity at filling stations, the Federal Government through its agencies is trying to set marketers against the buying public, oil dealers have said. Last week, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation announced a reduction in the ex-depot price of petrol from…
Kogi State government said on Tuesday said that 111 persons it tested for coronavirus returned negative. The state Commissioner for Information and Communication Strategy, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, made the disclosure in a statement in Lokoja, the state capital. Fanwo, however, said that the tests were conducted on the persons without the supervision of officials from…
The House of Representatives has approved the request by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to borrow N850bn to fund the 2020 budget. The Senate had earlier recently okayed the borrowing plan amidst controversy. The approval was however given by the House at the plenary on Tuesday within about seven minutes. Details later…
Governor Bala Mohammed has revealed that residents of Bauchi state do not believe Coronavirus is real even after he survived the disease. Speaking during an NTA programme on Monday, May 11, Governor Bala stated that denial, intransigence, and adamancy constitute a better part of the problem in the state. He said; “Part of the problem…
Kaduna State government has disclosed that it has realized the sum of N1.9 million from violators of the lockdown order in the state, within 2 days. The state government, through the Ministry of Justice, said 605 culprits were convicted between Thursday and Friday last week, for violating the lockdown order adding that, “about N1,909,600 was…
Below are pictures showing the amazing transformation of Korede Taiwo, the little boy who was rescued after he was chained up for months without food. Korede was adopted by Mrs. Funsho Amosun after he was rescued from the horrible condition which his father and stepmother placed him in. He’s now reportedly chasing a dream of…
“I am ill. I’m being treated,” Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies TASS and Interfax, which specified he had COVID-19. Peskov is the fourth senior government official to have fallen ill, after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova and Construction Minister Vladimir Yakushev said they tested positive for the coronavirus….
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a former Minister of External Affairs, Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, as his Chief of Staff. The new Chief of Staff was born on November 24, 1944, in Ilorin, Kwara State, and served as Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985. He holds the record of being the longest-serving Ambassador/Permanent Representative…
Scientists say the novel Coronavirus can enter the body through the eyes, after research found that the eyes contain a protein used by the disease scientifically called SARS-CoV-2 to bind to cells. The latest discovery is coming from a team of researchers from the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. According to the team of…