archiveJanuary 2021

World Bank, in collaboration with the Kwara State Government will spend $60 million for the upgrade of rural roads and markets across the 16 local governments, under the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP). Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq made this known on Wednesday at the launch of Alapa-Arobadi road in...

Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has warned that the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Mathew Kukah must not be harmed. Omokri warned that harming Bishop Kukah could lead to trouble that would consume Nigeria. He issued the warning in reaction to the quit notice issued...

  An international team of experts tasked with studying the origin of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, officials confirmed on Thursday.Their arrival was delayed after a protracted tug-of-war about the trip. Upon arrival, the researchers were tested for the coronavirus and asked...

President Donald Trump has called on his supporters to shun violence and vandalism after he was impeached for a history-making second time by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday. The House voted 232 to 197 to impeach the President with the support of 10 members of his own party....

  Nigeria recorded 1,398 new cases of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) as active cases being managed across isolation and treatment centres in the country rose to 20,062. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Wednesday. The  centre also confirmed nine new deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the...

Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, SAN has said the continuous closure of universities in the country as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic was unconstitutional and would-be counter-productive. He was reacting to the statement credited to the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, that the...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has   reached a total of 90,054,813. The health organization in a statement on Wednesday said that globally, there are 90,054,813 confirmed cases with 1,945,610 deaths. The WHO noted that the U.S. remains at the top in...

The Lagos State Government has said that it has reopened the Indo Isolation Centre at Anthony to create more bed spaces for severe to critical cases of COVID-19 patients in the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made the disclosure through his verified Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi on...

A former governor of Lagos and old Imo States, Rear Admiral Ndubisi Kanu (rtd), is dead. He died Wednesday morning at 78. It was gathered that he died at a private hospital in Lagos of undisclosed illness. A naval officer, Kanu was a chieftain of NADECO, a pro-democracy group that...

The National Examination Council (NECO) on Wednesday released the results of its 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) examination it conducted throughout the country between October and November, 2020. NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Prof. Godswill Obioma announced the results on Wednesday in Abuja. Obioma said that...