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Lagos State Health Commissioner Prof. Akin Abayomi has announced that 1,696 COVID-19 patients are yet to turn up for admission at the COVID-19 care centres.   Abayomi, who stated this on Tuesday on his official Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi, said the ...

In a tragic turn of events, a 26 year old Seke woman drowned in Manyame River, Zimbabwe  during a cleansing ceremony.   The people who were with her believed that she had been grabbed by a mermaid thus they didn’t ...

Former Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly matters, and Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang, has said the controversial Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020 does not target churches and religious ...

A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, was on Tuesday involved in a car crash.   The accident left two policemen attached to Oshiomhole’s convoy dead. The crash happened when an articulated vehicle lost control ...

No fewer than eight people including women and children have been confirmed dead after a canoe capsized at Tungar-Gegero in Jega Local Government Area of Kebbi State.   The Chairman, Kebbi State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Alhaji Sani Dododo, disclosed ...

A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday, escaped death in a car crash.   However, two policemen attached to his convoy were confirmed dead. The accident happened when an articulated vehicle lost control ...

Former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has threatened a N6 billion defamation suit against Media Trust limited, the publisher of Daily Trust newspapers and a columnist, Iliyasu Gadu, over an opinion article.   The controversial piece was a response to Mr ...

A senior civil servant, Mohammed Ndanusa has been arrested in Minna, Niger state after he was found to have smuggled his brother’s name in government’s payroll, since 2009.   Ndanusa, who was working for the Ministry of Health collected the ...

US police have shot dead another black man, who they said had a handgun but had dropped it during a violent altercation in Los Angeles, triggering fresh outrage as tensions soar over racism and police brutality.   The man, named ...

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina was on Tuesday sworn-in as the President of African Development Bank, AfDB for a second term of five years.   The AfDB President in a passionate speech unveiled his vision for for his next five years. Speaking ...

Police in Anambra State have arrested a woman, Mrs Nkechi Odinye, aged 55, who specializes in buying children suspected to have been stolen from across the country.   The woman was said to have been arrested on Monday by men ...

The Education Quality Assurance (OEQA) unit of the Lagos State Ministry of Education has warned the public to disregard a resumption time table flying around the social media.   The time-table claims to be the 2020/2021 academic calendar, states that ...

His Royal Highness, Eze Israel Chibueze Agbo, the Ogaba Idu II of Izhia, in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, is dead.   The family in conjunction with the Eze-in-council of Izhia kingdom announced the death of the monarch ...

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the General Hospital in Idoani, Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State.   The kidnappers who laid ambush on the CMD, Dr. Olufemi Adeogun also abducted a ...

There was confusion on Saturday at the Great Salvation Christian Centre, aka Father’s Church, on Ako Aro Road, in the Ifako-Ijaiye area of Lagos State, after a man, Iberemu Osadebe, disrupted an ongoing wedding in the church.   He claimed ...

U.S. Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden is a puppet figure, who, if elected in November, will ignite a “revolution” in the U.S., President Donald Trump said.   “Biden won’t calm things down,” Trump said. They will take over. They will ...

Gashu’a, the headquarters of Bade Local Government Area of Yobe State and the birthplace of the incumbent Senate President, Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan is in recent time grappling with perennial flooding as the rainy season intensifies.   For the residents of ...

The Association of Resident Doctors, Federal Capital Territory Administration, ARD-FCTA, have declared an indefinite strike commencing on Tuesday, September 1.   The group in a statement signed by Roland Aigbovo and Mustapha Ibrahim, chairman and general secretary of the association, ...

Nollywood actor Bolanle Ninalowo has gotten a new appointment from Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led administration.   He is now an Ambassador of the Lagos Waste Management Authority. He disclosed this on his Instagram page Monday. He wrote: “Signed & Sealed. New ...

The Federal Government on Monday said it would not tolerate any move by South African company, Multi­Choice, to lay off Nigerian workers in its employ under any guise.   This followed a meeting between the management of the National Broadcast­ing ...

Drivers of commercial buses, popularly called Danfo, along Iyana-Ipaja, Ikotun and environs in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, on Tuesday morning, withdrew their services to protest extortion and daily seizure of their buses by officials of Lagos State ...

In a surprise move, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has approved an increase in electricity tariff with effect from September 1, 2020 (today).   This comes three months after the tariff hike implementation slated for July 1 was halted by ...

  Photos making rounds on social media have shown the moment a teenage boy flaunted two ladies alleged to be his girlfriends. In the photo, the girls could be seen kissing taking turns to kiss the boy giving the insinuation ...

As at the morning of Tuesday, September 1, Kogi, Zamfara and Yobe States have no Covid-19 patient on admission.   This is however to the information on Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)’s website. Zamfara has had 78 confirmed cases. ...

No fewer than 14 suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested in different part of Awka in Anambra State by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.   A statement from the EFCC, Enugu Zonal Office said the suspects ...