archiveJuly 2021

Nigeria has recorded a new spike in Covid-19 infections as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered additional 238 cases and 2 deaths on Wednesday in the country. This was contained in a report by NCDC on Thursday morning and can be seen on its website. It said...

Catholic bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province have said that the current members of the National Assembly have not given legislation that would move the country forward. The body  which frowned at the current spate of insecurity across Nigeria, stressed that the country was no longer at ease. They also condemned...

Based on the quality of scientists, the University of Ibadan (UI), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) have emerged as the best varsities in Nigeria. AD Scientific Index, a leading global ranking body based in Turkey, recently released the list of its 2021 world scientist and...

Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, July 22, 2021 sentenced a self-styled customs officer, Yakubu Azeez Afolayan, to twenty years imprisonment having found him guilty of offences bordering on impersonation and job scam. The convict, posing as a Customs Officer, allegedly swindled a...

Former Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Prof. Bola Akinterinwa, has warned the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), against provoking self-determination proponents to start throwing bombs in the country. The diplomat spoke on Wednesday while featuring on PUNCH Online interview programme, The Roundtable. The...

Breaking from a century-old tradition in the name of health and safety, the largest convention organization in the world has moved its annual in-person event to a virtual format for the second time in as many years, canceling nearly 6,000 conventions in 240 lands. For about 90 years, Jehovah’s Witnesses...

341 others with irregular records opt for voluntary retirement indicted officers to be deleted from the payroll The Implementation Committee of the Oyo State 2019/2020 Civil/Public Servants Audit and Payroll Re-engineering/Validation Exercise has recommended the removal of 41 staff classified as “No Show” (ghost workers) by the consultants. The consultants...

  The Managing Director/CEO of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifie Sekibo has said that market formation framework is the key to optimally exploit Nigeria’s precious metal and solid minerals endowments. He disclosed this during a webinar organised by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of...

Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province has accused President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of selective administration of justice. The Bishops lamented that the development has seriously affected Nigerians in all spheres of life and the country’s image in the international community. The bishops, from Ibadan Archdiocese, made of Ilorin, Ondo, Oyo,...

The President of the Women Arise for Change Initiative, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, has urged the government of Benin Republic to immediately release detained Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) and grant his asylum application. Odumakin noted that it is not safe to extradite Igboho to Nigeria at the moment citing the...