archiveMay 2020

    The wife of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer, who is charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, has filed for divorce, according to her attorneys, ABC News reports. "This evening, I spoke with Kellie Chauvin and her family. She is devastated by Mr Floyd’s death...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 387 new cases of COVID-19, bring the total figure to 9302 in Nigeria. According to a tweet from the NCDC on Friday night, Lagos State recorded 254 cases, the Federal Capital Territory recorded 29 cases, Jigawa State had 24 cases,...

  Immediate-past Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC GMD), Maikanti Baru, is dead. This was disclosed by Mele Kyari, the current GMD of the state-run oil company. He said, “My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, immediate past GMD of NNPC died...

  A total of 15 leaders of the African Union (AU), all of them former heads of states of their respective countries, have jointly issued a caution note to the Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) over the controversy surrounding the investigation of alleged ethical abuses levelled...

  The Federal Government has risen in defence of the embattled President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) to checkmate a plot by the United States and other non-African shareholders of the body  to deny  Dr. Adesina Akinwunmi, a tenure renewal as the its President. Nigeria rejected the US’ call,...

  Ahead of May 29, the Presidency on Thursday, gave a factsheet of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in the last five years. Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said Nigeria had recorded significant improvement in the area of security under the current administration. Adesina insisted that Buhari’s...

  The Nigerian military has faulted a report by rights group Amnesty International (AI) that it is subjecting children in the northeast ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency to unlawful treatment and detention. Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday said that...

  Dear Brethren, LETTER BY REVD' DR SAMSON AYOKUNLE TO FG OVER COVID-19 Worship Regulations We are discussing with the federal government on the re-opening of the churches nationwide. We know the danger of COVID-19 is not over yet but we are thinking that if we engage this method of...

  Olusegun Obasanjo Agbe L’oba House, Quarry Road, Ibara P.O. Box 2286, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria 26 May 2020   Your Excellencies, I hope that you are keeping well in the midst of the current COVID 19 pandemic that we are all going through in Africa and all over the...

Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun, on Thursday, announced the plan to ease the eight-week lockdown against COVID-19 pandemic to allow normal businesses to operate from Monday to Friday. Abiodun told journalists in Abeokuta that the ease of the lockdown will take effect from June 1. According to him, the ease...