archiveJuly 2021

The women wing of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has given tacit support to the stand of Southern governors that it is their turn to produce the next President of Nigeria come 2023. According to the statement by Ohanaeze Igbo Women Organisation Worldwide dated July 7, 2021, and signed by its President-General,...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has added  interleukin-6 receptor blockers, to its list of treatments for critically ill COVID-19 patients. This is contained in a statement on Wednesday. The world health body stated that the update was the findings from a prospective and a living network meta-analysis initiated by WHO,...

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has condemned the position taken by the Southern Governors Forum during their Monday meeting in Lagos. The coalition on Tuesday accused the southern governors of shielding “felons, arsonists and mass atrocity perpetrators in their midst by challenging the prerogative of the Federal Government to...

 Nigeria has posted more COVID-19 cases with Lagos State topping the infection chat.The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 91 new cases and no COVID-19-related death on Tuesday, as the deadly virus continued to ravage Africa in the third wave. The NCDC stated that the 91 additional cases represented...

  The Police Command in Oyo State has vow to clampdown on cultists in the state over their alleged plans to celebrate July 7, popularly known as “7/7″, and in the process attack rival cult groups. The command disclosed this in a statement issued by its spokesman, DSP Adewale Osifeso,...

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says only compromised academics who were willing to submit names of po­litically exposed lecturers as re­turning officers to rig elections for the ruling party, were being appointed as Vice Chancellors of federal universities. Wike, who warned Vice Chan­cellors and lecturers to be wary...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says it has generated N650 billion revenue in June. The Director, Communications and Liaison Department, FIRS, Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. Ahmad said that this was the highest revenue realised in single month since the COVID-19 pandemic...

The Presidency Tuesday warned that the federal government will not allow the fundamental rights of individuals to freely express personal or regional views be abused to the extent of sabotaging the unity of the country, even as it commended security and intelligence agencies for their recent deft operations, which culminated...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has allayed fears over a reported alteration in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill as being speculated in some quarters. Gbajabiamila made this clarification on Tuesday in response to a point on matters of privilege by Rep. Ugouna Ozurigbo (APC-Imo) during the plenary...

   The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Ltd. sustained its positive posture on Tuesday with capitalisation returning to the N20 trillion mark due to gains by some blue chips. Specifically, the market capitalisation inched higher by N103 billion or 0.52 per cent to close at N20.026 trillion from N19.923 trillion recorded on...