‘Covid-19: Passengers to pay fine of £500 if they fail to comply with pre-departure testing’
By Victoria Ojeme …Mandatory COVID-19 testing introduced to bolster border measures …International arrivals required to prove negative COVID-19 test result before departure for England. …All international arrivals to England, including UK nationals, required to present a negative COVID-19 test taken up to 72 hours prior to departure …All passengers arriving from countries not on the […]
3 men in court for allegedly selling 150 chickens without permission
Three men on Monday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, for allegedly selling 150 chickens worth N450,000 without permission.
Gbajabiamila felicitates Lawan on 62nd birthday
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, has felicitated with the President of the Senate, Sen. Ahmad Lawan, on his 62nd birthday.
UPDATED: How Oyedamola Oke emerged LASU acting VC
… as Fagbohun steps out By Adesina Wahab The Deputy Vice Chancellor, Administration, Lagos State University, LASU, Prof. Oyedamola Oke, was on Monday elected the Acting Vice Chancellor by the Senate of the institution. Sources at the meeting said 113 professors attended the meeting and Oke polled 61 votes to Prof. Wahab Elias, the Deputy […]
Merkel finds Twitter halt of Trump account ‘problematic’
Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that the decision by social media giants to permanently suspend Donald Trump’s accounts is problematic because freedom of opinion should not be determined by such online platform bosses, her spokesman said Monday. ALSO READ: Breaking: Twitter suffers loss after suspending Trump “The fundamental right to freedom of opinion is a fundamental right […]
Auto crash claims 17 lives in Nasarawa
By David Odama The Federal Roads Safety Commission FRSC Sunday confirmed the death of 17 travellers in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa state The FRSC Unit Commander in Akwanga, Assistant Corps Commander Ebere Onyegbaduo said the Corp received a distress call of a fatal accident by 7 pm between Akwanga and Gudi Towns. “We […]
NSCDC arrests 2 suspected child traffickers in Calabar
Operatives of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Cross River have arrested two suspected child traffickers with six children.
Bauchi State records 57 cases of Lassa fever in 2020 — Official
Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (BASPHDA), says there were 22 deaths out of the 57 cases of Lassa fever recorded in Bauchi State in 2020. Rilwanu stated this on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Bauchi. He said that the agency, however, conducted decontamination […]
Fuel subsidy: Let’s shift to Autogas, FG tells MOMAN, IPMAN, others
By Udeme Akpan AS an immediate response to the rising price of petrol, and by extension, the return of fuel subsidy, the Federal Government has urged operators in Nigeria’s downstream sector of the petroleum industry to shift to Autogas. The call becomes necessary as Autogas is cheaper, about 60 per cent of the current price […]
Manager in court for alleged negligence
A manager of a fashion house, Chika Evans, on Monday appeared in a Grade I Area Court, Karu, FCT, for alleged negligence.
Jack Ma: Lost in Ali Baba’s Caves?
China’s famous tech magnate and former richest person, Jack Ma or Ma Yun, has reportedly not been seen in public for over two months. Videos predicting his possible detention by the CCP are afloat on various social media platforms. A $37 billion public offering of Ant Group was scuttled by the Chinese government in November […]
