archiveJune 2020

Nigeria has a total of 23,298 cases of COVID-19 cases as the country added 684 new cases on Friday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made public the new figure on Friday. NCDC said Lagos State recorded 259 cases, while Oyo State followed with 76 cases. The country as...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday warned again of a possible collapse of Nigeria, if the Buhari administration looked on while the country lapses into various insurrections and criminalities. Obasanjo stated that the Buhari government should restructure the country to assuage ill-feelings from contending interests, expressing worry that the federal...

Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu on Friday disclosed that looters of the Nigeria’s treasury now keep illicit funds in Ghana. Magu made the disclosure at the commission’s corporate headquarters after the Chartered Institute of Public Resources Management & Politics, Ghana, formally decorated and...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it is tracking 250 constituency projects in Kwara. According to a statement issued by the commission’s spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, the tracking exercise is under the second phase of the constituency and executive projects tracking exercise in 16 states of...

The United Nations (UN) says it has launched investigation into a viral video showing a couple apparently having sex in one of its official cars in Israel. Spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric, told UN correspondents in New York on Friday that the organisation was “shocked and deeply disturbed”...

Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, revealed on Friday that he contemplated quitting the battle for his re-election bid but support from his family, friends and colleague governors gave him the courage to fight on. He made this declaration is his acceptance speech at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin in the...

Justice Mohammed Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Friday, June 26, 2020, sentenced one Samod Oguntayo to three months imprisonment for criminal impersonation. According to a press statement by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) signed by its Head, Media & Publicity, Mr. Dele Oyewale,...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has condemned the role played by President Muhammadu Buhari in the dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the setting up of an interim caretaker committee to run the affairs of the ruling party. The PDP also knocked...

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, Prof. Sebastian Maimako, has said that 43 out of the 75, that is 57.3 per of the academic programmes offered by the university have been properly and fully accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC). Maimako disclosed this at a news briefing...

A court in the Turkish capital Ankara on Friday handed life sentences to 121 people over their alleged involvement in a failed coup by a faction in the military in 2016, state news agency Anadolu reported. “The court sentenced 86 to aggravated life imprisonment for “attempting to violate the constitution”...