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The Oyo State government on Tuesday said it has received no fewer than one hundred teachers from the federal government of Nigeria. Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Nureni Adeniran, made this disclosure while receiving the Teachers in Ibadan, the state capital. Adeniran while speaking said the...

The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has announced 390 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the country at Monday evening. The NCDC made this known on its Twitter page. The agency recorded an additional COVID-19 related death, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 1,181 It said...

The Nigerian Embassy in Germany has sacked a security guard, Martins Oni, found guilty of sexual abuse and other criminal activities. It would be recalled that last month, footage on social media showed Oni in a hotel room half-naked arguing with an unknown person who accused him of demanding sex...

  The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is currently holding an emergency virtual meeting at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. It would be recalled that the party had in late November scheduled the meeting to review its position and deliberate on its next...

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), hereby informs the general public that effective from the 8thh of December, 2020, Umaru Ibrahim, its Managing Director/Chief Executive, will formally disengage from service having successfully completed two terms spanning ten years. According to a press statement by Bashir A. Nuhu Director, Communication and...

  Inducts 558 new council members The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) has charged the Federal Government to widen the nation’s tax net by engaging the informal sectors as part of ways to bail the country out of recession and effects of COVID-19 pandemic. CITN President, Dame Gladys...

  Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, on Tuesday, became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot outside of trial as Britain began vaccinating its population. Britain began rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday, the first Western country to...

    The Lagos State Government has launched a special security team, named ‘Anti-Oneway and Other Traffic Offenders Squad’ to checkmate one-way driving and other traffic offences by motorists. The squad was set up by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, at the instance of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, with...

  The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad will on December 14, 2020, administer the oath on the 72 lawyers recently elevated to the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The spokesman of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Dr. Festus Akande, who disclosed this in a statement...

Justice C.A. Balogun of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Monday, December 7, 2020, adjourned further hearing in the trial of Abubakar Ali Peters, Chairman, Nadabo Energy Limited, to December 8, 2020. Peters alongside his company, Nababo Energy Limited, were arraigned on December 10, 2012 for offences...