Lecture By H.E. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo At the 2020 Sobo Sowemimo Annual Lecture Abeokuta Club, Friday, June 26, 2020 When the President of Abeokuta Club invited me through a letter by the General Secretary of the Club to give this talk, he gave me a guide by suggesting a title – COVID-19 And Nigeria Security […]

India reported over 17,000 new Coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, pushing the country’s total above 500,000, federal health ministry data showed on Saturday, with infections surging in major cities including the capital New Delhi. India has the world’s fourth-biggest outbreak of the virus that causes COVID-19, below only the United States, Brazil, and […]

An American woman, dubbed “TikTok Grandma” who helped turn a Donald Trump rally into a fiasco has been hired by a grassroots organization campaigning for the election of presidential challenger Joe Biden. Mary Jo Laupp nicknamed “TikTok Grandma” since earning fame for her impassioned social media call for opponents of Trump to book out his […]

By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Mr. Yekini Nabena has urged party members to support the newly-constituted APC Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee chaired by the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni. Nabena in a statement in Saturday allayed fears of a witch-hunt by the […]

By Avril Eyewu-Edero In 2012, when I worked at the coroner’s office in Lagos state as a forensic investigator, we got a notification to process a scene that two skeletons were found somewhere in Lagos. I remember getting to the scene which was very interesting and seeing two separate skeletons in different positions inside the […]

June, 19, 2020. As early as 8am, they were already seated inside Buhari Hall, at the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre , Oshodi, Lagos, awaiting the arrival of the Special Guest of Honour,  Air Vice Marshal Kingsley Lar.

As the Nigerian government continues to evacuate its nationals stranded in various countries as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown, I look beyond the regular countries like Dubai, United Kingdom and United States of America where hundreds of Nigerians are currently being held up in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mr. Simon Ebegbulem is the Commissioner for Special Projects in Imo state and was the Chief Press Secretary to the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. He spoke shortly after the APC governorship primary election in Edo state.

Imo State Commissioner of Information Mbadiwe Emelumba fielded these questions on recent happenings in the state. Excerpts:

The Lagos State Government, says it has sealed off additional 42 buildings in Lekki to reduce incidences of building collapse. A statement on Friday by Mr. Mukaila Sanusi, the spokesman of the Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, quoted the Commissioner, Dr. Idris Salako, as saying ‘some of the buildings do not […]