US President-elect, Joe Biden plans to sign roughly a dozen executive orders on his first day in the White House, that will show a stunning rebuke of outgoing US President Donald Trump’s policies . The executive orders include rejoining the Paris climate accord and ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, according to a…
One-time Kogi state governorship candidate, Natasha Akpoti, has blasted the leadership of the National Council for Women Societies NCWS for bestowing the award of the ”Most Gender-Sensitive Governor in Nigeria” on the governor of her state, Yahaya Bello. The award ceremony was held on Saturday, January 16 and televised live. Reacting via her Twitter…
As Nigeria expects to receive 100, 000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine by the end of January, the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) says there are not enough freezers to store the doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine when they are delivered. The vaccine is required to be stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius. In an interview…
Operatives of Ogun Police Command raided a drug dealers’ hideout in Abeokuta, recovered a cash sum of N2,722,750 cash and illicit drugs worth over N10m. Other items recovered from the den named “Mayas,” an abandoned hotel at Lafenwa, Abeokuta, included 55 packs of codeine; 110 parcels of weeds suspected to be Indian Hemp; and two packs of Emzoline. Ajogun…
The Nigerian Army’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has raised the alarm of insurgents buying fertilizers to make bombs. Coordinator of the Directorate of Defence Media Operations, (DDMO), Maj. Gen. John Enenche disclosed this on Friday January 15 during a media briefing on military operations from January 7 to 13. Eneche stated that the use of fertilisers by criminal…
An Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, Yunana Babas is dead. Babas who was in-charge of Zone 8, died barely 3 days after another AIG Omololu Bishi died. Governor AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman of Kwara state who commiserated with the police authorities over the death of the AIG, described him as a perfect gentlemen and a dedicated officer. AbdulRazaq…
Hollywood filmmaker, Tyler Perry, and the Motion Picture and Television Fund (MPTF) will be honoured with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 93rd Oscar ceremony in April 2021. The organizers said they decided to give the award to two recipients this year in recognition of the “widespread generosity” that they’ve witnessed amid the…
President Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other government officials participated in the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance day celebration which held at the National Arcade, Eagle Square in Abuja today January 15. See more photos below
The Presidential Task Force on COVID19 says the Federal government is not considering a fresh lockdown in the wake of the second wave of the pandemic. On Thursday, a letter allegedly from the task force indicating an imminent lockdown starting this weekend made the rounds on social media. The PTF has described the letter as…
Nigeria’s food inflation increased by 1.26 percent from 18.30 percent in November 2020 to 19.56 percent in December. This is according to the December 2020 consumer price index/inflation report released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, on Friday, Jan 15, 2021. This is the highest jump in food inflation since May…
