archiveJanuary 2021

  Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn said a deal for the world heavyweight champion to meet Tyson Fury in an undisputed world heavyweight title bout this year is all but done, with a venue in the Middle East a front-runner to host it. Joshua beat Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev last month...

Canadia has expressed willingness to support the battle against insecurity in Nigeria with $10 million. This was disclosed by the country’s acting High Commissioner, Nicholas Simard when he paid a visit to the Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, in Abuja. A statement released by the Head, Press and...

Shehu Sani, former Kaduna Central Senator, has raised an alarm over the reopening of schools amid the COVID-19 second wave, stressing that there is confusion over how government should tackle the second wave of COVID-19. Sani, in a tweet, said state governments should pay more attention in ensuring adherence to...

  The Lagos State Government has launched PayVIS, a number plate detection platform that captures vehicle offenders when they violate traffic laws and then bills offenders. PayVIS is an initiative of the Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service. According to the information contained in the website of PayVis “PlateDetect (otherwise known...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,444 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country The NCDC disclosed this on its official website late on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country has tested 1,154,138 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19...

  The Federal Government says it will inaugurate a COVID-19 Rapid Response Register (RRR), an emergency intervention database, for the urban poor made poorer by the pandemic. Mr Joe Abuku,  Communications Manager, National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), has disclosed. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...

  endorses gov as PDP South West leader The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said on Saturday, that it was endorsing Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State as the leader of the party in the South West. Lagos PDP leaders, who made the declaration after a...

    As part of strategies to arrest the growing trend of speed related road accidents within the Federal Capital Territory and Niger State, the Federal Road Safety Corps will from 18 January, 2021 commence a Special Monthly Patrol code named ‘’Operation RAIDS’’, urging motorists to obey traffic rules. Assistant...

I congratulate Professor Maimuna Waziri on her appointment as the third Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Gashua, Yobe State. I also congratulate the Governing Council of the University for arriving at the appointment without rancour under the guidance of due process and best university tradition. With the appointment of...

President Muhammadu Buhari has rejoiced with seasoned diplomat and administrator, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, on his 88th birthday on Monday, Jan. 18. In a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Sunday, Buhari congratulated the former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth for a life that keeps learning and...