The Nigeria Correctional Service has said it has not released a former Abia State Governor, Orji Kalu, from the Kuje custodial facility because no warrant for his release from the Supreme Court has been received. The NCoS spokesman, Chuks Njoku, said this in reaction to reports that Kalu had been released from custody where he…
Some staff members of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have tested positive for coronavirus. The four officials – of Grade Level 6, 7, 8 – have been moved to an isolation center in Abuja. ThisDay reports that the affected staff lives in one of EFCC’s safe houses’ in the Mabushi area. Safe Houses…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says President Muhammadu Buhari and his manipulative All Progressives Congress (APC) have completely betrayed the Almajiris and other downtrodden, poor and vulnerable Nigerians after using them to grab power in 2015. The party asserts that the APC and its government have continued to show their true colours especially as manifested…
Mexican-American wrestler and former WWE star, Alberto Del Rio was on Sunday arrested for raping a woman and threatening her child. According to WOAI, a woman reportedly presented authorities with photographs and graphic details of an alleged beating and sexual assault and said that Del Rio had assaulted her on multiple occasions. She also reportedly…
Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has disclosed that a worker at a fish-processing factory in Ghana’s Atlantic seafront city of Tema infected 533 other workers at the facility with the coronavirus (COVID-19). Ghana’s president said this in a nationwide address on Sunday night as he lifted the three weeks restriction on movement in parts of the…
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson has announced that the extension of Coronavirus lockdown by three more weeks. The U.K. has the second-highest confirmed coronavirus death toll in the world and the highest in Europe. The country has reported more than 220,000 recorded cases and 31,000 deaths from the virus as of…
Ondo State has recorded its first death from Coronavirus. The patient died in the early hours of Monday at the Infectious Disease Hospital on Igbatoro Road in Akure, the state capital. Dr Wahab Adegbenro, Commissioner for Health in the state, made the disclosure during a chat with SaharaReporters. He said: “The patient died today at…
Five suspected smugglers have been arrested over attack on officers of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Ikpokia Local Government Area of Ogun State. One of the officers identified as Assistant Superintendent Chidi Johnson sustained severe injuries in the ambush laid by the suspected smugglers last Friday. Johnson was among a team of Customs men…
The Bauchi State Government says confirmed COVID-19 cases in the had risen to 183 following the confirmation of 22 new cases. The state Coordinator of COVID -19 Task Force, Dr. Aliyu Maigoro, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Bauchi. “On Sunday, May 10, 2020, the Surveillance Team of the Bauchi State Task Force…
Olori Memunat Omowumi, a mum of three and one of the Queens of the Alaafin of Oyo, Obad Adeyemi, is a year older today! Marking her birthday, Memunat who is often tagged as the most humble Queen of the Alaafin of Oyo, shared photos of herself with an insight into how blessed she is to…