Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) and Coalition of Yoruba self-determination groups, yesterday, warned the Federal Government against proscribing the Yoruba Nation agitation groups. Umar Gwandu, the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations to Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, had said the Federal Government would do whatever possible within the […]
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The executive director of National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) Dr Faisal Shuaib takes COVID-19 vaccine in Abuja on Thursday, March 11, 2021. PHOTO: TWITTER/NPHCDA The Federal Government is set to begin the second phase of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) vaccination today after taking delivery of 177,600 Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) vaccines on August 12, […]
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• Governors, ACF, CAN, Muslim groups condemn killings • UNIJOS suspends ongoing exams • Police arrest 20 suspects, deploy tactical units • Army rescues seven more victims Few hours after imposing a dusk-to-dawn curfew on three Local Government Areas of Jos North, Jos South and Bassa in Plateau State, Governor Simon Lalong yesterday declared a […]
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… Before they fell apart … By Banji Ayoola Still boiling with rage barely 12 hours after a bloody clash, supporters of Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola and those of the Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, on Sunday resorted to a verbal warfare over the violence which occurred at the secretariat of the Osun State All […]
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– Party condemns attack on secretariat By Banji Ayoola Gunmen have attacked the Ile Ife home of a former commissioner in Osun State, Mr Biyi Odunlade, as the crisis rocking the state chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, due to grievances over the party’s contentious ward congress held to pick its first line […]
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An Italy-bound woman, Nora Nnadi, who was allegedly caught with 100 wraps of heroin and two parcels of the same substance at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, MMIA, Lagos, has been arrested. Her arrest was part of a number of arrests and seizures by by operatives of the National […]
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A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, says that the problems in northern Nigeria are perpetrated by those who hate Nigeria. He said that there is a peculiar ‘disease’ in northern Nigeria perpetrated by the elite who hate the country, noting that despite the widely-held belief about western education, […]
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Buhari on arrival from UK. Photo: Facebook/Femi Adesina – Nigeria begins second phase vaccination today Monday Fresh from a trip to the United Kingdom where he had attended a global summit and had a medical checkup, President Muhammadu Buhari and some of his close aides who accompanied him on the trip are in isolation according […]
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Nigeria’s leading opposition party, thePeoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday, raised the alarm over an alleged underhand rigging plan of the 2023 general election by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. It raised the alarm in a statement by its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, entitled: “APC has begun the rigging of 2023 Polls, Secondus […]
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Irigwe youths of Bassa Local Government area of Plateau protesting over the herdsmen killings in their land in Jos on Saturday. Photo: NAN • UNIJOS female undergraduate going to church killed, 24-hour curfew imposed Despite the curfew imposed on Jos North, Jos South and Bassa local government areas of Plateau State, hoodlums on Sunday unleashed […]
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