archiveJune 2020

• Pry 6, JSS3, SS3 students to resume July 6 The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force has modified the resumption date for Primary six, Junior Secondary School 3 and Senior Secondary School 3 students in the state. The Task Force, which rose from a two-and-a-half-hour meeting on Monday, reviewed the...

The leadership of the National Association of Government General Medical And Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP) says its members will begin an indefinite strike by midnight of Wednesday. This is contained in a communique made available to newsmen by the Secretary of the association, Dr Tunde Olasakinju, on Tuesday in Akure after...

The wife of the Ekiti governor, Mrs Bisi Fayemi, on Tuesday, inaugurated the Ekiti Sexual Assault Referral Centre for emergency treatments and proper monitoring of victims of rape and sexual offences in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the inauguration of the facility called Moremi Ekiti...

Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday said it has commenced an investigation into the allegation against a housewife, who reportedly damaged the genitals of her husband. The spokesperson of the Command, Daniel Adigun, in a statement, said one Omolara Seriki, resident of...

The number of COVID-19 cases in Lagos State now stands at 8,864, according to data released the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday. The NCDC announced the figure in its COVID-19 Situation Report for June 22. It said that Lagos accounted for 288 new COVID-19 infections out of...

Global trade is expected to drop around 18.5 per cent year on year in the second quarter of 2020 in a coronavirus driven plunge which could have been much worse, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in a release on Tuesday. The Geneva-based body forecast in April that global trade...

Nigeria’s candidate for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr.Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has lamented that the organisation “delivered disappointingly” in major trade agreements. In an article published on Monday, Mrs Okonjo-Iweala noted that “since its establishment in 1995, the WTO has failed to conclude a single...

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has appointed Alhaja Selimot Olapeju Ottun as the new Head of Service in the state. This was contained in a statement issued in Abeokuta by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Kunle Somorin. The former Head of Service, Mrs. Amope Ajibola Chokor,...

Another round of controversy yesterday broke out between the two major parties in Ekiti State, as The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has called on the state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to immediately refund the over N100 million allegedly collected from job seekers in the state in August....

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said that the owners and drivers of the four articulated vehicles involved in a multiple accident along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday will be investigated and prosecuted. The FRSC Corps Marshals, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement signed by the Corps Public...