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…
Manchester United midfielder, Bruno Fernandes has become the first player in Premier League history to win Player of the Month four times in the same calendar year. The Portuguese footballer was on Friday named Premier League Player of the Month for December, after scoring three goals in six Premier League appearances in December as Ole…
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC says 1398 new cases of COVID19 were recorded in Nigeria on Wednesday, January 13. According to the health agency, Lagos recorded 542 cases while the FCT recorded 131, Other states with fresh cases include Oyo-120, Rivers-113, Plateau-111, Kaduna-71, Kwara-71, Akwa Ibom-34, Sokoto-31, Benue-28, Ogun-27, Kano-26, Kebbi-17, Osun-12,…
Governor Seyi Makinde has said that most of the negative reports about Oyo state chapter of the Western Nigeria Security Network, Amotekun, are false. Makinde who said this at the government house in Agodi on Wednesday January 14, alleged that those who want Amotekun to fail are behind the lies. He also told those with evidence of wrongdoing meted…
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano Command, have arrested an 18-year-old man, Isameel Abubakar, for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl (name withheld). Abubakar of Kofar Ruwa quarters in Dala Local Government Area was arrested last Friday on the same day the crime was allegedly committed. Confirming the incident, the…
20 doctors have contracted COVID-19 within the past three weeks in Kwara State. President of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Dr Badmus Habeeb, disclosed this to Channels Television during a phone interview on Wednesday January 13. Habeeb who said the association are battling with the pandemic “based on…
