By Peter Okutu, Abakaliki The new Commissioner of Police deployed to Ebonyi State Police Command, CP Aliyu Garba, on Monday resumed at the Command Headquarters in Abakaliki. The former CP Philip Sule Maku who was redeployed to Force Headquarters, Abuja, hails from Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger State. The new Commissioner of Police holds […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela In a bid to add aesthetic values to schools and rid them of miscreants, the Ekiti State government has begun the demolition of dilapidated and substandard structures in 532 primary schools across the State. This, according to the government would allow for the beautification programme of Governor Kayode Fayemi-led administration and efforts […]

Delta  State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on Monday decried the rising cases of kidnapping, killings and attacks on clergy men and worship centres in the country.  Okowa made the remark at a security seminar tagged “Securing worship centres and clergymen in contemporary Nigeria”, organised by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Religious Matters, at the […]

A team of researchers at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) have established the capacity of Bromelain derivable from pineapple fruits in the management of COVID-19 cases. According to the University of Ilorin Bulletin issued on Monday, the discovery is in conjunction with Prof. Bamidele Owoeye, the Head, Department of Physiology, and Mr Ahmed Bakare, a […]

As academic activities commenced nationwide on Monday, schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environs resumed with strict adherence to the Federal Government guidelines on Coronavirus (COVID-19) safety protocols. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondents who monitored the resumption in Abuja, report that some of the schools visited complied with the set […]

India on Monday stepped up efforts to bolster trust in coronavirus vaccines after it was revealed that nearly a third of those invited to get jabs at the launch of a nationwide drive failed to turn up. The government has launched one of the world’s most ambitious vaccine programmes, aiming to innoculate 300 million of […]

The Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic on Monday confirmed the re-election of President Faustin-Archange Touadera. According to final results announced by the Constitutional Court, Touadera won his second term with 53.16 per cent of the Dec. 27 balloting. READ ALSO: Restructuring, opportunity for ation-building, says el-Rufai On Jan. 4, authorities announced preliminary results […]

*Insist that Nnamdi Kanu, outlawed group being sponsored to destabilize South East *Tell region’s governors, Ohaneze, other stakeholders to sensitize people to denounce IPOB By Joseph Erunke— ABUJA The Coalition of South East Professionals Network in Nigeria and Diaspora (CSEPNND),said the statement,Sunday, by the Indigenous People of Biafra,IPOB,stating its opposition to Igbo presidency in 2023, […]

The Imo Government has postponed resumption of schools in the state until Jan. 25 Schools due to the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s Commissioner for Education, Prof. Bernard Ikegwuoha said. Ikegwuoha, who disclosed this in a statement issued in Owerri on Monday, said the postponement was as a result of rising cases of […]

  By Joseph Erunke   ABUJA-THE federal government, Monday,declared that no COVID-19 test was required for returning students to be admitted into their schools. But the government,in a terse statement by the Federal Ministry of Education, Monday,explained that only temperature test should be carried out on students.  READ ALSOBuhari approves nomination of Fikpo as acting […]

By Kingsley Omonobi …Vows, We will stop unacceptable nonsense of drugs abuse in Nigeria. …We will make NDLEA Effective, Respected & Feared by Concerned Criminals. The new chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd) has warned illicit drugs traffickers, exporters and cultivators as well as consumers in the country […]

By Gabriel Olawale The Organising Secretary of the All Progressive Congress, APC Lagos State, Enilolobo Abdullahi has declared his support for the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, come 2023 Presidency. In a chat with the newsmen, Enilolobo distanced himself from a purported statement, saying he was backing the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf […]

  By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South and Ozioruva Aliu    SOME stakeholders of Niger Delta, weekend, suggested the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Transport, Rt. Hon Rotimi Amaechi and other top All Progressive Congress, APC, leaders from the oil-rich region should urgently meet […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has formally approved the appointment of Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo as the Acting Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment, NDE. This was contained in a letter to the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, dated Monday 18, 2021. A statement issued by the Senior Special […]

Troops of the Operation ”Hadarin Daji”, have eliminated 35 bandits and arrested two of their collaborators in different encounters in Zamfara and Katsina State, the Defence Headquarters has said. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, made this known in a statement on Monday. Enenche also aid the troops of ”Forward Operating Base Kekuwuje” […]