The Imo state command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday said it has started an investigation into the killing of one their men at Ohi junction in Mbaitoli local government area of Imo state.

THE Senate Tuesday asked the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency, expedite action towards the completion of the Ajaokuta steel plant.

By Chioma Obinna The Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH has delivered another pregnant woman diagnosed with COVID-19 of twins. The delivery brings the total number of babies delivered at the LUTH isolation centre to five while their mother becomes the fourth patient with COVID-19. The twins delivered through cesarean section weighed 3.2kg and 3.25kg. ALSO […]

Delta State Government on Tuesday said it had begun moves to establish a security force to check rising insecurity in the state.

By Dapo Akinrefon A non-governmental organisation, Kehinde Salami Foundation, KSF, has set up machineries for the distribution of palliatives to indigent members of Ojo Local Government Area in Lagos State, particularly in the month of Ramadan. Kehinde Salami, the CEO of Kenolt Global Resources Limited and Founder of the Foundation, said the palliative is aimed […]

By Henry Umoru – Abuja Move to carry out the amendment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010, got a boost on Tuesday in the Senate as a Bill to that effect scaled second reading. This was a sequel to the consideration of a bill seeking to boost local content as […]

*Gov. Diri Extends Presidential Directives For Two Weeks *Jonathan, Dickson, Ooni Of Ife Donate To State By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA – A medical doctor has tested positive for COVID-19 in Bayelsa State, bringing the number of active cases in the state to two. Governor Douye Diri announced the new confirmed case on Tuesday in Yenagoa […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – – THE National Assembly has said it will re-work the 9th Legislative Agenda to reflect the realities on ground in the country as a result of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, stated this on Tuesday while speaking with the State House correspondents after […]

The Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS)  announced the election of Mr Olatunde Amolegbe as its new President and Chairman of the Governing Council, succeeding the incumbent President, Mr Adedapo Adekoje after the Institute’s maiden virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM).

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA—FORMER United Nations, UN, Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon has described the appointment of Prof Ibrahim Gambari as Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari as a great asset to Nigeria and Africa ”in a broader sense.” The former UN Secretary-General in a letter of congratulations addressed to Prof Gambari, on May 18, said […]

Felicien Kabuga: A Rwandan tycoon charged over the country’s 1994 genocide and arrested in France this weekend after some 25 years on the run appeared Tuesday before Paris prosecutors in the first stage of a process that may see him handed over to an international court. Kabuga, 84, one of the last key fugitives wanted […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the Federal Government for its denials and cover-up on the whereabouts and activities of the Chinese medical experts it brought into our country last month.

Tricycle (Keke) riders operating in Enugu metropolis, on Monday, received food items donated by the Enugu State Government, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Tertiary Education Trust (TET) Fund, amid excitement.

  By David Odama Nasarawa State Government said Tuesday that a total of  19  out of 33 patients confirmed cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)  who tested negative to the virus in the state. The state Commissioner of Health, Pharm Ahmed Yahaya who disclosed this at a news briefing in Lafia. said the state has recorded […]

By Dapo Akinrefon Former Liaison Officer to President Shehu Shagari, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, on Tuesday, clarified that the northern youths flooding the South are not Almajirai. Yakassai, who tried to set the records straight regarding the influx of northern youths to the South, said the youths were not Almajirai. Yakassai, in an interview with Vanguard, […]