By Adeola Badru Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Wednesday faulted the claimed second wave of the COVID-19 as being widely speculated, saying the state is still in the first wave. The governor made the disclosure, during a media briefing with the Governor’s Office correspondents, held at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, on the […]

By Sola Ogundipe The African Union has secured close to 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for distribution to its member nations. The Senior Science Adviser for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Africa CDC, Dr Nicaise Ndembi, who confirmed this on Wednesday, said the 300 million doses are being secured independently of […]

Say VCs have plans to put COVID-19 guidelines in place Some Vice-Chancellors of universities under Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU have said that it was wrong for ASUU to claim that there were no COVID-19 guidelines for reopening Universities. ASUU, haven called off 9-month strike insisted that Nigerian universities were not ready to re-open […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government on Wednesday embarked on strict enforcement of COVID-19 safety protocols on staff and visitors at the state’s Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, as part of measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Recall that the state government has stepped up measures to prevent further spread following rising cases of the […]

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi Members of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi are lamenting that they regret accepting to join the IPPIS payment platform over unexplained deduction from their salaries. They said the university unions, […]

By Bashir Bello – Kano Police in Katsina State on Wednesday says it has succeeded in arresting two who disguises as spirits (Aljannu) to defraud unsuspecting individuals of their monies in the state. It was gathered that the duo of Kabiru Bashir, 27-year-old, and Sadiq Ashiru, 30-year-old, who specializes in the fraudulent act go about […]

 By Shina Abubakar Osogbo The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi on Wednesday disclosed that traditional security architecture saved Ife town from wanton destruction of property when hoodlums hijacked the EndSARS protest in some parts of the state. This is as the monarch added that policing is everybody’s business and should be treated as a […]

…Says exercise already achieving results By Chris Ochayi The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has revealed that many contractors have returned to their various sites to finish the abandoned projects with their own money as a result of the ongoing forensic audit of the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, […]

Residents of Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta have appealed to the Federal Government to extend deadline of registration for the National Identity Number (NIN) to enable all eligible Nigerians to be captured The residents who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Effurun, near Warri said that the process was […]

By Rasheed Sobowale Telegram, a cloud-based instant messaging (IM) software and application service, has gained 25 million new users within 72 hours as internet users ditch WhatsApp over the latter’s new controversial privacy update. Announcing the new feat, Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram said; “In the first week of January, Telegram surpassed […]