The National Youth Service Corps has told its state coordinators to make the welfare of corps members a top priority. The NYSC Director-General, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, said in Abuja on Tuesday no corps member should die during or after the Batch A 2020 orientation course. He said the coordinators must ensure that sick corps…
Boko Haram insurgents on Tuesday attacked two communities located six kilometers from Chibok in Borno State, where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by the sect in April 2014. The terrorists reportedly attacked Kwarangulum and Ntsiha villages, burning houses and other property during the raid. But troops stationed in Chibok were said to have mobilized to…
An Assistant Director of Administration in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Ms. Laetitia Naankang Dagan, has been reportedly killed by unknown assailants in her home in Abuja. Ms. Dagan, according to a statement issued by Assistant Director of Information in the State House, Attah Esa, worked in her office at the State House till about 8…
Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says he is strongly convinced that corruption is the cause of coronavirus. Magu said this at the passing out parade of 281 cadets of the EFCC Detective Inspector Course-5, at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, on Tuesday. Coronavirus, officially named COVID-19, broke out in Wuhan…
The United States government has given the federal government conditions under which the recent visa policy affecting six countries, including Nigeria, could be reviewed. The US government maintained that once Nigeria improves her data intelligence, such that it would be easy to investigate any immigrant wishing to visit the United States and meet information-sharing systems,…
The Presidency on Tuesday said sacking service chiefs would create cracks in the country and threaten national unity. The Presidency added that there were processes that should be followed in the disengagement of heads of security agencies insisting that “at the right time, those processes will be followed.” The Secretary to the Government of the…
The House of Representatives has described the inability of planes to land at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos, leading to flight diversion to neighboring countries as embarrassing. The House, at the plenary on Tuesday, resolved that both the airlines and the Federal Government, through the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, should be responsible for the…
Neighbors of 22-year-old man, Daibo Toju Davies, who jumped from the Third mainland bridge into the Lagos Lagoon on Saturday, February 15th, have spoken about his life before his unfortunate demise. Recall that the deceased boarded an Uber last Saturday from a hospital to his residence, on Number 17 Sosanya street in Soluyi area of…
A pastor, Anthony Esezobor, has accused officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority of threatening his life after his Mercedes Benz SUV was impounded by the agency nine months ago. According to the cleric, the SUV was impounded by men of the Zone 30 command over what was described as “willful obstruction of oncoming…
The Gombe State Government has procured 100 HP desktop computers. This was revealed by TrackaNG, a project initiated by the pro-transparency group, BudgIT, that tracks the performance of government budgets. TrackaNG, which also collaborates with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offenses Commission, posted photographs of the computer on its official Twitter handle. “N100m was…