Movement restriction: Court convicts 17 for flouting govt’s directive in Lagos

Movement restriction: Court convicts 17 for flouting govt’s directive in Lagos

The police in Lagos on Wednesday arraigned an additional 17 residents who flouted the stay-at-home order of the state government. Those arraigned include Adekunle Peter, 28; Rikwan Babajide, 18; Bukola Oyekola, 30; Kennedy Ubogu, 30; Yusuf Lawal, 25; Saheed Isiaka, 24; Olamide Wasiu, 17; Wisdom Edokpayi, 34; Michael Duyilemi, 34. Others are:  Francis Ofen, 20; […]
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PDP demands a full-scale investigation into treasury house fire

PDP demands a full-scale investigation into treasury house fire

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded a full-scale investigation into the circumstances surrounding the mysterious fire outbreak in critical offices at the Headquarters of the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation in Abuja on Wednesday.

Police arraign man, 20, over alleged attempted murder

Police arraign man, 20, over alleged attempted murder

The Police on Wednesday arraigned a 20-year-old man, Anuoluwapo Busuyi before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged attempted murder. The defendant, who is of no fixed address is standing trial on a charge of attempted murder. The prosecutor, Insp. Bankole Olasunkanmi told the court that the defendant committed the offense on March 29 in […]

Police arrest two for alleged robbery in Ogun

Police arrest two for alleged robbery in Ogun

James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta Operatives of the Ogun State police command have arrested the duo of 19 years old Ayomide Joseph and 20 years old, Olajide Ajisomo, for allegedly robbing two brothers at gunpoint around Mowe in Obafemi Owode local government area of Ogun State. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, […]

COVID-19: 27 persons quarantined in Minna as government anxiously waits for results

COVID-19: 27 persons quarantined in Minna as government anxiously waits for results

  By Wole Mosadomi Niger State government has succeeded in tracing twenty-seven persons suspected to be Coronavirus infected and are presently under quarantine in an isolation Centre at Sanu village in Bosso local government area of the state. The main suspect who drove in from Lagos few days ago was said to have been instructed […]

N1.5trn spent on fuel subsidy in 2019— FG

N1.5trn spent on fuel subsidy in 2019— FG

…queries huge expenditure on moribund refineries …warns of difficulty in mobilising revenue, subsidy payment By Michael Eboh The Federal Government has revealed that it spent N1.5 trillion on fuel subsidy in 2019. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang, disclosed this in a communiqué in Abuja. The communiqué was […]

NECO denies postponing 2020 BECE and SSCE

NECO denies postponing 2020 BECE and SSCE

By Wole Mosadomi – Minna National Examinations Council,(NECO) has stated that it has not postponed the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) due to the prevailing situation in the Country. A Press Statement issued by the Head, Information and Public Relations Division of the Council, Malam Azez Sani […]

Lockdown: Police kill 4, injure 10 in Kaduna as youth, JTF clash

Lockdown: Police kill 4, injure 10 in Kaduna as youth, JTF clash

By Ibrahim Hassan – Wuyo A clash between operatives of Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) and some youth in Tirkania community, a suburb of Kaduna over enforcement of the stay at home order of the state government has claimed four lives with many injured. It was gathered that the JTF officials Monday tried enforcing the […]

Lockdown: Kaduna drags clergymen to court for holding service

Lockdown: Kaduna drags clergymen to court for holding service

By Ibrahim Hassan Two clergies, who held church service last Sunday, arrested by security agents in Kaduna State, for the violation of the lockdown order in the state, were arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court on Monday. The Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, in a statement, yesterday, said that one Ifeanyi […]

Lockdown: Okowa warns defaulters

Lockdown: Okowa warns defaulters

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta  State has threatened to apply stricter measures to check disobedience of the state government’s directives on the lockdown in the state over the COVID-19 pandemic.

WHO denies being China-centric after Trump’s coronavirus criticism

WHO denies being China-centric after Trump’s coronavirus criticism

A day after President Trump accused the World Health Organization, WHO of pro-China bias and said he was placing a “very powerful hold” on its funding, a top agency official said Wednesday that the acute phase of the coronavirus pandemic is not the time to hit it financially. “We are still in the acute phase […]