By Tordue Salem, Abuja The House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to suspend plenary for two weeks to screen and detect symptoms of the deadly coronavirus, currently spreading fear across the country. The House said the period will allow the Management of the National Assembly and principal officers, provide screening and detection facilities at the […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN and one of its major concessionaires, I-Cube West Africa, two weeks to explore out-of-court settlement.

Commanding Officer, 2-4-5 battalion Nigerian, Colonel A. Gulani,  has said that the Nigerian military was equipped and capable of  protecting the country against external aggression and  also able to keep the country together.

PARENTS of withdrawn and relegated officer cadets of Nigerian Defense Academy, NDA, Kaduna, have raised the alarm over what they described as undue, unjust and wrongful withdrawal of their children numbering 53 Officer cadets and relegation of nine others, without due process.

A security strategist and Chief Executive, Scutarii Advisory, Mr Hilly Cookey-Gam has described as a major threat to national cohesion and security, the strategy by Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, to cause a religious crisis in the country.    

UYO—Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, has commended Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel for his political tolerance. 

By Demola Akinyemi ILORIN–The Zonal Head, Economic and Financial Crime Commission[EFCC]in Ilorin, ACP Isyaku Sharu Tuesday handed over N263,327,800.00[Two hundred and sixty-three million, Three hundred and twenty-seven thousand and Eight hundred naira only] cash out of N5B allegedly looted by top government officials of the last administration in the state through their cronies to the […]

Massive protests, yesterday, hit the streets of riverine communities in Delta State over an alleged plan by the National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd), to nominate a northerner to chair a caretaker committee for the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter  to the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu urging him to use his leadership position to “instruct the Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi to immediately, fully and effectively enforce the judgment stopping all Lagos hospitals and health facilities from demanding compulsory blood donations from any patients or their relatives as precondition for medical attention either in antenatal and maternal or any other health services.”

The number of US deaths from the novel coronavirus rose to six on Monday, all in the state of Washington, officials said, signaling the contagion has taken root in the Pacific Northwest. Vice President Mike Pence announced a treatment for the disease could be available by summer or early fall, but that a vaccine was farther off. […]

By Ibrahim Hassan As Kaduna records first rain on Monday, some Malams and other spiritual healers were seen rushing to get the raindrops in various containers, claiming it has the efficacy to ward off evils. Malam Wada who teaches in an Islamiya school near Hayin Banki, said the holy books have described rain water generally,  […]

…As candidates to obtain certificate online By Elizabeth Uwandu The 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for Private Candidates, 2020, First Series result has been released 30 days after the conduct of the examination across the federation. This is as the Head of West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Nigeria, Mr. Olu Adenipekun at […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA – Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabimilla has denied reports that he spent public funds to host his mother’s birthday in Dubia, United Arabs Emirates. He also denied taking 300 guests to the loaction of the birthday. Recall that online platform had on Monday reported that the Speaker took 300 […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Supreme Court has stood down its proceedings till 3pm to enable it deliver judgement on the fresh application seeking to restore Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as Governor of Imo State. A seven-man panel of justices of the apex court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, […]

The death toll from the new coronavirus in the United States climbed to six on Monday as the contagion took root in the country’s Pacific Northwest and continued its march across the globe. Worldwide, close to 3,100 people have succumbed to the illness even as a clear shift in the crisis was emerging, with nine […]