archiveAugust 2020

The Ekiti Government on Sunday distributed protective materials to the principals of all the public schools in the state to prevent the spread of Coronavirus pandemic and other communicable diseases. The distribution was in preparation for the resumption of SS3 students in the state public and private secondary schools on...

A former Commissioner of Police, Mr Lawrence Alobi has blamed the prevailing security challenges in the country on corruption, inadequate funding and bad governance orchestrated by successive governments. Alobi, who disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja, also blamed the security challenges on the insensitivity...

Many churches in Lagos on Sunday witnessed low turnout on the first Sunday of reopening after 20 weeks of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020 relaxed some of the lockdown measures instituted by the...

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has tested negative for COVID-19. His Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Akinyemi explained that his boss took the test on Friday, August 7, 2020, at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Pent House residence, Okemosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State...

The remains of Senator Buruju Kashamu, have been buried at his Ijebu-Igbo country home. Kashamu who died at 62 on Saturday of COVID-19 complications was buried at around 12:55 pm on Sunday. Ogun Governor Dapo Abiodun was part of the crowd that bidded the politician a tearful farewell. Sympathisers shunned...

Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has condemned former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo for his comment about late Buruji Kashamu. Kashamu, a former Ogun senator and Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, died on Saturday after battling with COVID-19 for more than two weeks at the First Cardiology Consultants Hospital in Lagos...

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain Senator Buruji Kashamu is dead. According to sources he died of COVID-19 complications. Kashamu, who represented Ogun-East senatorial district between 2015 and 2019, died at First Cardiology Consultants, Lagos. Senator Ben Murray-Bruce said the deceased would be sorely missed. He tweeted: “I have just lost...

...renew restructuring agitation, as youths take protest against killings to Kaduna The leadership of the various Nigeria’s socio-political organizations, including Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Pan Niger Delta Forum and the Middle Belt Forum on Saturday paid a solidarity visit on the people of Southern Kaduna over the incessant killings in their...

The Federal Government will use part of the N2.3 trillion stimulus package to purchase locally produced items as buyer of last resort in line with its Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. The Vice President stated this on Friday at the virtual edition of the...

SUNU Assurances Nig. Plc’s has announced a 30 per cent profit increase to N1.2 billion for the 2019 financial year. The company recorded N914 million profit in the 2018 financial year. L-R: Non-Executive Director, SUNU Assurances Nigeria Plc, Olanrewaju Ogunbanjo; Executive Director, Adeleke Hassan; Managing Director, Samuel Ogbodu; Company Secretary,...