The simmering political crisis in Edo State may have assumed another dimension as Governor Godwin Obaseki yesterday said it has become imperative to probe the Benin Specialist Hospital built by former Governor Adams Oshiomhole. Obaseki stressed that it has become imperative for Edo people to know the true state of affairs at the facility and […]

Following the reported cases of rising cases of contagious diseases across the nation, Anambra state Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala, has assured that the Ministry is alert and fully prepared to respond to any outbreak of Lassa fever in the state. Okpala in a chat with newsmen in his office complex, Awka said there […]

Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has decried the inability of Nigeria to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets, blaming governments’ attitude to the programme. The governor bared his mind when the Presidential Management Team of SDGs led by its coordinator, Dr. Albashir Ibrahim, visited him in Asaba, yesterday. Governor Okowa, in a statement by […]

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) of Bayelsa have begun school enrolment drive across communities in the state. In collaboration with the state government, UNICEF, last week, commenced school enrolment campaign in the state to reduce the rate of out-of-school children, put at 265,000. The programme, which is […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned the Chief Executive Officer and publisher of The Interview magazine, Mr. Azubike Ishekwene, before the Ikeja Special Offences Court over fraud allegations. He was arraigned together with the former Chief Executive Officer of Cleanserve Integrated Energy Solutions Limited (CIES), Mr. Olalekan Abdul, in charge number ID/11126C/2019. […]

A supermarket operated by Chinese nationals has been shut down in Nigeria’s capital city Abuja. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission closed Panda Supermarket because of its alleged discriminatory practices against non-Asians and as a cautionary step following the outbreak of coronavirus in China. FCCPC said it confirmed the allegations against supermarket located in […]

Nigerian Government has approved the payment of N33,000 as monthly allowance for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, disclosed this during a session with some corps members at the service’s Bauchi State Secretariat. He explained that the approval was made in line with the implementation […]

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe Wednesday asked Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over spike in insecurity in the country. “If you want to treat an issue, you go to the head. We did not appoint the IG or the security chiefs. We will go to the president and ask him to resign,” Abaribe said.

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has promised that he would not disappoint all the lawmakers who defected from their various parties to the party he belongs to, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Uzodinma, in a statement on Wednesday, by his chief press secretary Oguwike Nwachukwu, said he would collaborate with them to make the state […]

Some sections of the Lagos popular Balogun market have been razed by fire on Wednesday morning. “A major fire outbreak has been reported in Martins street, Lagos Island,” Lagos State governor spokesman Gbenga Akosile tweeted. Akosile said the a combined team of the state safety workers are on ground to curtail the spread of the […]

Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the North, Rev. Yakubu Pam, has said that Leah Sharibu remains a worthy ambassador of Jesus Christ even amid persecution by Boko Haram on account of her faith. He insisted that whatever might have happened to her in the cause of her captivity in the last […]

The Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Warri, Dr. John Afahera, has said that the country has adopted corruption as a department in its polity. Speaking at the thanksgiving service by the Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Area Commission (DESOPADEC) Askia Ogieh, at St. Matthias Catholic Church, Uzere, Isoko South Council, the cleric expressed concern […]