A joint security team led by the Nyanya Divisional Police Officer, SP Ugochukwu Uhegbu, on Thursday arrested 10 suspects for mounting an illegal road block to extort money from motorists and other members of the public at the Federal Capital Territory/Nasarawa State boundary. According to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Anjuguri […]
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The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday dismissed the case brought by the Action Peoples Party (APP), challenging the propriety of the last governorship elections held in Bayelsa and Kogi states. The court’s decision to dismiss the appeal was taken shortly before hearing the applications by interested parties, who sought to be made parties […]
Continue ReadingCongressional Republicans on Thursday urged President Donald Trump to condition US funding for the World Health Organization on the resignation of its chief over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Seventeen Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said they had “lost faith” in Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s WHO leadership, even as they stressed the organization […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday rejected as counterproductive attempts to blame Beijing for delaying informing the world about the coronavirus, the Kremlin said. Putin and Xi spoke after US President Donald Trump’s administration berated China for not sharing data more quickly. Washington is also investigating the origins of the […]
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President Donald Trump’s administration is urging an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it doesn’t rule out that it came from a laboratory researching bats in Wuhan, China. Beijing has said that the virus, which has killed more than 138,700 people worldwide, was likely transmitted to humans late last year at a […]
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The death toll from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic reached 910 as the number of confirmed cases hit 17,247 across the African continent as of Thursday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Africa CDC, said. The Africa CDC, a specialised agency of the 55-member African Union (AU) Commission, in its latest situation update said […]
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Elder statesman and Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has renewed his call for a return to true federalism to correct what he described as “the imbalance and injustice” on the present political arrangement. He spoke while featuring in a special interview on the Oyo state owned television, Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS TV) on […]
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Secretary to the Federal Government and Chairman Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, has urged Nigerian tailors to start mass producing face mask, using the country’s local fabrics. He said this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 press briefing on Thursday in Abuja against the backdrop of insufficient face masks in […]
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The police say that the suspected killers of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, a daughter of Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, have been arrested. A statement by Force Spokesman, DCP Frank Mba, confirmed the arrest. The statement was titled: “Killers of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Chief Reuben Fasoranti, nabbed”. It said: “Police Operatives have arrested the […]
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Facebook said on Thursday that it would start notifying users who had engaged with false posts about COVID-19 which could cause physical harm, such as drinking bleach to cure the virus, and connect them to accurate information. The social media giant said it had been battling to control large volumes of misinformation such as posts […]
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