archiveJanuary 8, 2022

  pays N21.2mn compensation to ENDSARS victims Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has expressed fresh concern over reported cases of physical assaults on some uniformed men in Ekiti. The government has also announced the completion of payment of compensations awarded to victims of the incidences of human rights violations,...

The NGX All-Share Index and Market Capitalization opened the year on the positive note as they appreciated by 2.66 per cent and 5.97 per cent to close the week at 43,854.42 and N23.628 trillion respectively. Also, all other indices finished higher with the exception of NGX Premium, NGX insurance, NGX...

Business mogul Barister Jimoh Ibrahim has dissociated himself from a fake Facebook account opened by some unscrupulous persons in his name to defraud Nigerians. In a statement personally signed by him, while dissociating himself from the Facebook page, he said he was equally surprised like many of his associates, followers...

From Azare, in the Katagum Emirate Council of Bauchi State, came a heap of praises on President Muhammadu Buhari for initiating and completing developmental projects in the country and especially in the Emirate. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN who was in Azare, Bauchi State to grace the wedding ceremony of...

  World Health Organisation (WHO) has expalined that the spread of Omicron was down to a combination of factors including the make-up of the COVID-19 variant and increased social mixing. The WHO’s COVID-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove said that people needed to think about reducing their exposure to the...

President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday that Nigeria needs a divine intervention to end the Boko Haram insurgency, banditry and other social vices plaguing the country. The President, who stated this at a national prayer session organised by the Kano State governor, said the government was unrelenting in its efforts...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP)has rescheduled the screening of aspirants for the Osun State Governorship election primary from the earlier scheduled date of Tuesday, January 11, 2022 to a new date of Wednesday, January 12, 2022. This is according to a statement signed on Saturday by the party’s National Organising...

The Chairman/Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd) has lost his first wife, Mrs Zainab Marwa. The family in a statement on Saturday, said Zainab died in the early hours of the day at the age of 66 after a brief illness....

The Lagos State Government on Saturday threatened to shut down schools that failed to reopen for academic works on January 4. The state government had last week directed all schools in the state to reopen on Tuesday, 4th January 2022, for the second term of the 2021/2022 academic session. The...

Nigeria recorded four fatalities and 814 fresh infections from the coronavirus pandemic on Friday. The new infections were reported across 15 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The latest statistics released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) late Friday night, shows that the new...