By Festus Ahon Suspected armed robbers, Thursday night, killed a yet to be identified young man at Okotomi area of Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State, carting away from the home of a civil servant,  Mr. Aaron Edafeikpema, the sum of N295,000.00. It was learned that the hoodlums, numbering seven, had invaded the […]

Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou on Friday appealed for a “Marshall Plan” to help African economies hit by the coronavirus pandemic as more states warned of a devastating impact on the continent’s growth. “Even before the pandemic, Africa needed a Marshall Plan for its development, to fight poverty. This pandemic is a further argument to justify […]

The Kebbi State Police Command has arrested nine members of a vigilante group, popularly known as Yansakai, for allegedly killing seven persons in an attempt to rustle their cows and sheep in the Zuru area of the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Nafi’u Abubakar, who disclosed this in Birnin Kebbi on Saturday, said […]

By Rasheed Sobowale The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Saturday admitted an error in its Friday report that indicated Nigeria recorded 26 new coronavirus cases. NCDC noted the error was in the number of cases reported for Osun State. According to the Centre, “Of the 25 new cases reported, 1 case was inadvertently […]

British light-heavyweight Anthony Yarde says his grandmother has died from the coronavirus just a few days after his father’s death as a result of the pandemic. The 28-year-old fighter appealed to people to ‘just stay home’ as he announced that his grandmother had died yesterday. ‘It’s serious!’ Yarde wrote on social media. ‘People are still […]

Residents of Ogun State on Saturday observed total compliance to the lockdown order by President Muhammad Buhari as part of measures to curtail and contain the spread of the deadly Coronavirus disease in the State.

There has always been something different, unique and special about the Nigerian. Most of us do not know it or even appreciate it, but it is there in every one of us, in our DNA. That is why, of all Black persons on earth, Nigerians wear their independence of mind like a badge. They are […]

KeneChukwu Okeke The COVID-19 outbreak is a human tragedy and has a growing impact on the global economy. Therefore, it requires no magnifying glass to see that the Quarantine Act of 1926 being an existing law and deemed to be an Act of the National Assembly, is reasonably justifiable in a democratic society in the […]

Emergency responders led by Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, in the early hours Saturday, batted to avert what could have been pipeline explosion following leakage of one of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation pipelines in Mosan Bus Stop area of Ipaja, Lagos State.

  Prof. Ugochkwu, a renowned Surgeon died on Friday at an elitist hospital in Enugu after a long illness. Before becoming a Commissioner, he also served as the Provost College of Medicine at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUTH. READ ALSO: Only one returnee COVID-19 patient is missing, not six – Osun Govt […]