Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Monday, said the hardship occasioned by the stay-at-home order over the coronavirus pandemic had necessitated the need to focus on full-time strategic implementation of ‘stomach infrastructure.’ Fayose, in a statement by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, said present realities made it imperative for leaders to stand for…
Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick, has sounded a note of warning to Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, saying no one is indispensable as far as the national team job is concern. Rohr, who took over the national team job in August 2016, has entered the final three months of his contract with the Nigerian…
The Federal Government is to raise the sum of $6.9bn through external borrowing from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the African Development Bank. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja during a media briefing on the fiscal policy measures to tackle the…
The United States began on Monday its hardest week of coronavirus crisis, reaching over 10,000 in deaths caused by the virus. Both the Johns Hopkins University tracker and worldometers.info showed the world’s biggest economy hitting the new level. With 756 new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, the U.S. now has 10,372 deaths, third…
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the distribution of 150 trucks of rice seized by Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to the 36 states of the federation. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed disclosed this while fielding questions from journalists at a news conference in Abuja on Monday. The news conference was…
Former Lagos governorship candidate, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly contravening lockdown order to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Gbadamosi was detained after attending a party organised by Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele-Bello for her husband, Abdul-Rasheed Bello, popularly known as JJC. The event was held in…
The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 10 and Monday, 13, as public holidays to mark the 2020 Easter Celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, through a statement by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Mrs Georgina Ehuriah, on Monday, in Abuja. Aregbesola urged…
Following nine months of intensive investigation, the alleged killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti have been reportedly apprehended. The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin disclosed this on Monday. According to Odumakin in a statement issued, he said that the arrest was effected by men…
Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has disclosed what he did in isolation in order to become negative of the coronavirus. The governor had announced that he was positive of the disease and went into isolation. He got all-clear and announced he had become negative on Sunday night. But speaking on phone with Fresh FM, a…
Aisha Yusufu, co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls campaign group, has again blasted President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the 77-year-old Nigerian leader as a ”waste.” Mrs. Yusufu was reacting to the news of Chadian President, Idriss Deby leading the country’s troops against the Boko Haram terrorists and rescuing some Nigerian soldiers. Recall that Chadian troops at the weekend…