archiveJune 2020

The Kwara government has expressed gratitude to organisations and individuals for contributing to its fight against the COVID-19. The Deputy Governor and Chairman of Kwara Covid-19 Technical Committee, Mr Kayode Alabi, paid tributes to the donors on Sunday while receiving two motorised modular fumigators from the Ooni of Ife, Oba...

Chief Judge of Kogi State and Life Bencher, Justice Nasir Ajanah (OON) is dead. The Chief Judge, was said to have died in the early hours of Sunday, June 28, after a protracted illness at the age of 64, in an Abuja hospital. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has revealed that the Federal Government has evacuated 315 stranded Nigerians from the United Kingdom. This was made known by the commission through its Twitter handle on Sunday. It stated that the evacuees would arrive in Nigeria about 5pm on Sunday. It tweeted, “Air Peace...

Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) on Sunday appealed to the Federal and State Governments to review interstate travel ban occasioned by the lockdown to curtail Coronavirus (COVID-19) spread. The National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Abdulrahman Amusan, who made this appeal in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

The Presidency has dismissed reports insinuating that President Muhammadu Buhari and APC chieftain Bola Tinubu have fallen apart, following the dissolution of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on Thursday. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in a statement in Abuja on...

Tinubu speaks on NWC dissolution Becoming the party we were intended to be- Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu I wish to begin my remarks by commending members of the National Working Committee. Under their collective stewardship, the party earned great and important victories, not least the vital second mandate handed to...

Pilots and test crew members from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing Co (BA.N) are slated to begin a three-day certification test campaign for the 737 MAX on Monday, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The test is a pivotal moment in Boeing’s worst-ever corporate crisis, long since...

The remains of former governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, were on Sunday laid to rest at his Oluyole Estate residence. The former governor was said to have been buried at 10.20 a.m. according to Islamic rites after his body was brought in from Lagos early on Sunday. His...

Nigeria In Saturday recorded 779 new cases of COVID-19 as its total infections hit 24,077. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on its official Twitter handle. NCDC said that the 684 new confirmed cases were reported in 22 states, with four deaths. The health agency said that...

The attention of the Office of the Senate President has been drawn to a publication on the Sahara Reporters portal purporting that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management allocated N-Power recruitment slots to the Senate President and other lawmakers We hereby advise members of the public to totally...