Government-owned hospitals across Nigeria will be under lock and key as from Monday, August 2, 2021 following strike notice already issued by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). The strike notice was contained in a directive by the leadership of NARD after it concluded a meeting which held in Umuahia, Abia state. Specifically, NARD asked members to begin full Read More
Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is facing fresh trouble as he is currently being held in custody by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of theft and money laundering. According to PREMIUM TIMES, Saraki, a former Kwara State governor, was detained on Saturday. As senate president between 2015 and 2019, Mr Saraki spent a considerable time facing allegations Read More
In the midst of gloomy moments for team Nigeria at the on going Tokyo 2022 Olympics, Enoch Adegoke and Ese Brume are gradually telling the stories with close door steps to medals for team Nigeria. It is evident that the extensive hardwork and preparations for the athletes are gradually paying off. Enoch Adegoke who edged out number 1 in the Read More
Nigerian sprinters, Enoch Adegoke and Usheoritse Itsekiri, have made it to the semi-final of the men’s 100 meters race at the ongoing 2020 Olympic games. In another development, Nigeria’s Divine Oduduru was disqaulified from men’s 100m at the same category. Oduduru was disqualifed over a fasle start at his heat. Great Britain’s Reece Prescod was first to have a false Read More
The special Appeal panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Kano has dismissed the motion filed by Chief Edozie Njoku seeking leave of the court to appeal as an interested person against the Jigawa state High Court judgment which declared Hon. Chukwuma Umeoji as the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The court held that the motion was Read More
Popular Nollywood actress, Racheal Oniga, has passed on The veteran role interpreter reportedly died from COVID-19 complications. Her son, simply identified as Olatunji, has already confirmed the death of her mother who died Friday night. Oniga featured in scores of Nollywood movies in both English and Yoruba languages. Born on May 23, 1957; the delectable actress began her career in Read More
Nigeria’s men national basketball team D’Tigers have again lost their match against Italy 80-71, the third at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo Japan. The Nigerian team which led in the second and third quarters collapsed the final quarter. Details loading…
The Nasarawa state government, Friday, denied media reports that it is not true that armed robbers besieged the state ministry of finance budget and planning, and carted away the sum of N100 million on Monday 26, July. A statement signed by the state commissioner of information, culture and tourism, Comrade Dogo Shamma, and made available to newsmen in Lafia revealed Read More
From the ongoing 2020 Olympics in Tokyo comes a report that one of Nigeria’s medal prospects, Tobi Amusan, has advanced to the semi-final of 100 meters hurdles after emerging first at the heat. Details loading…
Nigerian sprinter and 2008 Olympics long jump silver medallist Blessing Okagbare’s Tokyo Games ended abruptly on Saturday morning after she was provisionally suspended following a positive test for human growth hormone, the Athletics Integrity Unit said in a statement. The 32-year-old, who has also won world championship medals in the 200m and the long jump and is competing in her Read More
No fewer than 52, 000 card carrying members of the Taraba state chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) on Thursday decamped to the All Progressive Congress (APC). The PDP and APGA decampees are from Ib, Donga, Takum, Ussa and Wukari local government areas of the state. The member board of trustees APC, Read More
The management of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has urged the general public to dismiss the story that 200 corps members were murdered this year in the North-east as fake and unsubstantiated. A statement from the office of the director-general of NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, read in part, “The attention of management of the National Youth Service Corps has been Read More
Association of Bureaux De Change operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has assured members of the public that it was still providing foreign exchange services, insisting that the operating licence issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) empowered Bureaux De Change (BDCs) to source for forex from other sources. ABCON president Aminu Gwadabe disclosed this in Lagos while reacting to the Read More
The vice-president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, and a former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, lamented the high rate of values erosion in Nigeria and called for urgent re-orientation and revival. The duo who spoke in Abuja Thursday night at the 2021 Edition of Africa Value Awards tasked Nigerians on the need to pay more attention on leadership and societal values Read More
The governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC) for Anambra State 2021 poll, Senator Andy Uba, Friday, said the winner of the November 6 election would be determined by God not “prophesy.” The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, had in a recent prophesy claimed that the APC would not win the poll with Uba as candidate Read More
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state Thursday empowered 10 of his former Exco members, 30 workers to the tune of N95 million. The Exco members were given N5 million each while the other 30 who were civil servants were given N1.5 million each. The empowerment programme was done at the old exco Chamber, Government House Abakaliki, capital city of the Read More
The Government of the Republic of Korea, through its grant aid and technical cooperation agency, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOlCA) office in Nigeria, has awarded one Ph.D and 14 Masters Degree scholarships to Nigerian government officials from various Ministries, Departments, Agencies (MDAS) across the nation to study inleading Korean universities. The KOlCA Scholarship program is in fulfillment of Korea’s core policy Read More
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged Federal Government to establish food security military task force to work in farming clusters. Atiku in a statement, Friday sad “the warning given by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations on Wednesday, July 29, 2021, of Read More
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Ondo state gubernatorial election has already sealed the fate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has a defunct political party. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan who stated this, Friday when he address journalists in Abuja alerted Nigerians and the international community on the development. The party Read More
As the All Progressives Congress brace up for the ward Congress on Saturday, the Chairman Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and Yobe state Governor Hon. Mai Mala Buni, has enjoined party stakeholders and members to conduct the exercise peacefully. In a statement signed Friday night by his director general on media and publicity, Mamman Mohammed, Governor Buni called on officials Read More
A security expert and lawyer, Dr. Garus Gololo, has advised the federal government not to hand over the embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, to the American security agency for trial. DCP Kyari is currently standing trial in an American court over an allegation of bribery, as revealed in the report of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who Read More
In a bid to stimulate better welfare packages for Nigerian Air Force (NAF) veterans and their families, the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, has approved the establishment of the Directorate of Veteran Affairs. A statement by NAF spokesperson Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet Friday, said the CAS disclosed this while declaring open a 2-day Conference for NAF Read More
Some youths who are members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State have accused Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and Caretaker Chairman of the APC, Prince Gboyega Famodun of committing electoral fraud ahead of tomorrow’s ward congress of the party. The youths who staged a protest on the Gbongan-Ibadan road, Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo, today alleged Oyetola and Famodun of hijacking the Read More
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has stepped in to stem further crisis by addressing the issues that have arisen concerning Team Nigeria athletes. According to the Director Federation of Elites athletes Department, Dr Simon Ebhojiaye, “The Ministry is abreast of the situation on ground and addressing them. Payment of various allowances commenced since last week and its ongoing. Read More
A group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun state known as Osun Progressives (TOP) has raised an alarm, alleging that the key stakeholders have been excluded from the ward Congress commencing nationwide on Saturday. The group alleged that the national Secretariat officers sent to Osogbo to conduct the congress exercise were hijacked, ambushed and kept from being accessed Read More
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