The Department of State Services (DSS), on Wednesday, produced the 12 detained associates of Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, before a Federal High Court, Abuja in compliance with its earlier order. that Justice Obiora Egwuatu had, on July 23, ordered the security agency to bring the detainees in court following an ex-parte…
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the President of Niger Republic, Mohammed Bazoum, on the country’s Independence Day being observed on Aug. 3, 2021. The president, in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu in Abuja on Tuesday, described Niger Republic as “one of Nigeria’s best friends in Africa”. According to him, the French speaking…
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) has appealed to the Lagos State Government to yield to resolving issues necessitating the ongoing doctor’s strike. Dr Azeez Ojekunle, ARD President, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) chapter, made the plea in an interview with the NAN recalls that the National Association of Resident Doctors had directed its…
Bishop Sam Owusu of Pottersville Church International, has alleged that Temitope Balogun Joshua, aka TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, was killed. Owusu alleged that TB Joshua was killed because he was the most popular black man in the whole world. Addressing his members, the clergyman claimed that he has details…
Savitri Devi has been searching for work since she lost her job at a garment factory in India’s capital New Delhi, along with half her coworkers, when sales plummeted at the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year. The 44-year-old has tried her luck repeatedly – and unsuccessfully – near her home in Okhla, an…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has registered 11 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24-hours, adding to a recent surge in infections driven by the spread of the Delta variant in the country. The NCDC, which made this known via its website on Tuesday, added that the country also reported 444 new infections as of…
The Police Command in Oyo State says it has arrested the alleged kidnapper of the wife of an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in the state, Mrs Juliet Salawu. the suspected kidnapper was among the suspects presented on Monday at the Police Command Headquarters in Eleyele, Ibadan. Other suspects were also presented by the command…
The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has announced the provision of $550m in funding by the World Bank (WB) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support the implementation of its off-grid solution projects. Mr Ahmed Abubakar, Communication Expert, REA, who made this known in a statement in Abuja, on Monday, added that out of the…
MTN is yet to renew its Universal Access Service Licence (UASL), the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. This is contained in a statement by Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, NCC, in Abuja. ”The attention of the NCC is drawn to a publication in an online media titled: “Govt renews MTN Nigeria licence amid…
