By Chijioke Okoronkwo Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has urged Nigerians to stop having doubts about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. Okowa fielded questions from State House correspondents after a private meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the World…
By Aminu GarkoThe Police Command in Niger, on Tuesday, said it had arrested 16 students of Ibrahim Babangida University, Lapai, during cult initiation. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Wasiu Abiodun, disclosed this in a statement in Minna. ”On July 7 at about 2100 hours, acting on a credible intelligence, Police operatives attached to…
By Virginia Pietromarchi rocked by violence and looting for five consecutive days, with more than 70 people killed as grievances over the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma spiralled into the worst unrest in decades. Following the jailing of the former leader, protests and mass looting have widened into an outpouring of anger over the inequality that remains 27…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday re-arraigned a former governor of Kaduna State, Muktar Ramalan Yero, before Justice M.G Umar of the Federal High Court, Kaduna, on an eight-count amended charge of money laundering. Mr Yero is being prosecuted by the EFCC alongside Nuhu Somo Wya (a former minister), Ishaq Hamsa (a…
Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said Nigeria overcame the grim prediction of Bill Gates and other experts that it would collapse under the damaging economic effects of COVID-19. The minister spoke at the Third Annual Lecture of the Faculty of Arts, Ekiti University, Ado Ekiti. The lecture was titled, COVID-19: “The Economy and Security”. Aregbesola…
President Muhammad Buhari says Nigeria will offer the best support possible to ensure that the Republic of Cameroon remains an indivisible country. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement, said Buhari stated this when he received Mr Felix Mbayu, a Special Envoy from President Paul Biya of Cameroon in the Presidential Villa, Abuja,…
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has called on the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to review its import dues on premium motor spirit (PMS), better known as petrol. NAN reports that Osinbajo said this on Monday in Abuja at the fourth annual lecture and award presentation by ValueChain Magazine. He said the review would help to reduce pressure…
Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa has stressed the need for press freedom in Nigeria. This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, in Yenagoa on Tuesday. According to the statement, Diri made the comment in Abuja on Monday during the House of Representatives Press Corps’ Annual…
By Rita Iliya Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger has inaugurated the 2.4 kilometres broadcasting road in Minna on Monday at the cost of N1.3 billion. Bello, during the official inauguration said that the project was constructed by Messer Soject Nigeria Limited. According to him, one of the priorities of his administration is to develop critical…