The Federal Government has ordered civil servants in the country to resume duties effective Monday, May 4. This was contained in a memo signed on Thursday by the Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan. In the memo directed to all heads of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, the HoS said the workers would…
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday convicted 20 violators of the stay-at-home order aimed at containing the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Kwara State Government imposed a total lockdown order on residents as a way of preventing the spread of the pandemic that has killed…
Two Lagos-base lawyers, Isaiah Odje and Adebayo Johnson, say the partial easing of lockdown in Lagos, against the spread of novel coronavirus at this time, “is not safe for residents”. The lawyers spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews on Thursday in Lagos. NAN reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had on…
An 11-year-old boy from Mulalio Village in Ikolomani Constituency in Kakamega County, Kenya allegedly committed suicide after he lost a fight over the TV remote control early Wednesday, April 29. Canton Litiku, a Class Five pupil at Kakamega Hill School, is said to have disagreed with his younger sister on which television program to watch,…
The gunmen, who abducted the Ekiti State Commissioner for Agriculture, Folorunso Olabode, have reduced the ransom they demanded from N30m to N15m. A family source said in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday that the reduction was against the backdrop of negotiations and inability to meet the N30m earlier demanded on Monday. The commissioner and one other…
Lagos State has discharged 49 COVID-19 patients undergoing treatment in its isolation centers. This brings the total number of discharged patients in the state to 187, The PUNCH reports. The Lagos State Ministry of Health made this known via its Twitter handle. It tweeted, “49 #COVID19Lagos patients: 28 females and 21 males including a foreign national – a Greek…
The false belief that toxic methanol cures Coronavirus has killed over 700 people in Iran. The national coroner’s authority in the country said that alcohol poisoning killed 728 Iranians between February 20 and April 7. Last year there were only 66 deaths from alcohol poisoning, according to the report. An adviser to the Health Ministry,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a dead former lawmaker from Ebonyi State, Tobias Chukwuemeka Okwuru, to the board of the Federal Character Commission. The appointment of the late Okwuru alongside 37 others was contained in a letter Buhari sent to the Nigerian Senate for confirmation. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, read out the letter on Tuesday…
The Federal High Court in Lagos has awarded N5m against the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his campaign director, Dr. Bukola Saraki, over unauthorized use of the photograph of a Lagos-based trader, Mrs. Amuda Adeleke, on their campaign billboard. Justice Ayokunle Faji, who made the monetary award in…
Life Of Pi” and “Slumdog Millionaire” star, Irrfan Khan is dead. The Bollywood actor, Irrfan Khan, died of neuroendocrine tumor, a rare form of cancer, two years after he was diagnosed. He died in a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday, aged 54, after losing his mum just four days ago. He was known internationally for his…