Agboola Gambari replaces Abba Kyari as Buhari’s Chief of Staff

A former Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari is the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. Aged 75, the erudite scholar and Internatioal Relations expert was yesterday named by President Buhari to replace late Abba Kyari who died in March. Gambari who hails from Ilorin, Kwara State is […]

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More knocks for Wike over demolished hotels

Governor Wike at the demolition site Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike received more knocks on Monday for demolishing two major hotels in Eleme. Among the people that flayed his action is a former Senator Magnus Abe, and owner of one the bulldozed hotels, Promise Gogorodari. The second hotel, Edemeteh, was located in Onne, also in […]

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Olusola Oke emerges Ondo APC faction’s consensus candidate

Unity Forum has no consensus candidate, all aspirants will contest primaries – Boroffice Olanusi report fake, fraudulent, compromised – Ehindero Count me out of decision – Adelegan By Banji Ayoola A faction of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State, Unity Forum, has named a former member of the House of Representatives and […]

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Northern governors deporting almajirai to cut expenses

• More street urchins in Kaduna after over 31,000 deported• Kano, Gombe govs warn against politicising COVID-19 Besides effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, there are indications that Northern states embarked on the deportation of almajirai to cut down on anticipated expenses. Governors of the region last month had agreed to send the almajirai back […]

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Let Amotekun man Ondo borders, security experts tell Akeredolu

As the influx of migrants continue to desecrate Ondo state borders, security experts have made a case for state police and Amotekun security outfit as panacea to porosity at the borders. Some days ago, about 20 almajiris were intercepted in Akure on their way to Ondo town and were sent back to Sokoto state while […]

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N7.65b fraud conviction: No release order for Kalu

A former Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu has not been released from Kuje Correctional Centre because Friday’s Supreme Court judgment does not affect him. The apex court did not issue any order for the release of the Senate Chief Whip because he did not file any application for such. He was a respondent (defendant) […]

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Olusola Iji will beat Akeredolu hands down in APC primary – Aregbesola

By Banji Ayoola The Director of Media and Publicity of the Ambassador Olusola Iji Campaign Organisation, Prince Sola Aregbesola, in the following interview with The Radiance, explains why he believes strongly that his boss would defeat the incumbent Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, in the forthcoming primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, […]

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Plant extract in Madagascar’s herb grows in Nigeria – FG

The Federal Government on Monday said the plant used for the herbal drug produced by the Republic of Madagascar for the prevention and cure of coronavirus (COVID-19), grows in the country. Nigeria’s consignment of the herbal drug is said to be in transit to Equatorial Guinea, from whence it will arrive the country in Abuja. […]

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COVID-19 and cost of maintenance neglect

The fear of lack of bed space for coronavirus patients at isolation centres has gripped the government, now seeking the possibility of home treatment. Government now making appeal to owners of uncompleted buildings or empty property to donate to the government for use when government has many edifices and structures abandoned at different locations in […]

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600 returnees flood Lagos, Abuja isolation centres

Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, the Minister of Foreign Affairs says over 600 evacuees from different countries are already at various isolation centres in Lagos and Abuja. He said this at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 press briefing on Monday in Abuja. He said that the isolation centres designated for evacuees in Lagos and Abuja were […]

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