Densely-populated Lagos State is driving Nigeria’s COVID-19 surge as the country registered 1,584 new infections on Friday. Lagos, the smallest state in Nigeria has a land mass of 1,171.28 square kilometres and an estimated population of between 17.5 million and 21 million as of 2020. About 6,871 people live in every square kilometre of Lagos […]
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L-R: Principal, Idogbo Secondary School, Mr. Sunday Osaretin; Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki and Commissioner for Education, Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe, during an assessment tour of the damages caused by hoodlums in Idogbo Secondary School, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, on Wednesday, December 8, 202 Edo State government has indefinitely shut Idogbo […]
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Lagos State Police Command said yesterday it had released the remains of Sylvester Oromoni, the Dowen College, Lagos student allegedly bullied to death, to his family for burial. Spokesperson for the command, Adekunle Ajisebutu, said the release followed the conclusion of autopsy on the corpse to ascertain the cause and nature of death. But the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday tasked Nigerian universities to come up with a cure for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Represented by Mr John Mairafi, a Director with the National Universities Commission (NUC), Buhari gave the charge in Oye-Ekiti, at the 5th and 6th convocation ceremony of the Federal University (FUOYE). He charged scholars in universities to engage […]
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The Debt Management Office (DMO) has clarified that loans from China to Nigeria, which presently stood at 3.59 billion dollars, constitute only 9.4 per cent of the country’s total foreign debt stock of 37.9 billion dollars. Ms Patience Oniha, the Director-General of DMO made this known in an interview on Saturday in Abuja. She also […]
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The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has chosen silence as the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo; and former Interim APC National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande trade words over the sponsorship of Abebanjo’s Lekki house. Akande in his 559-page autobiography titled ‘My Participations’, launched in Lagos on December […]
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Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total of N675.946 billion November 2021 Federation Account Revenue to the Federal Government, States and Local Government Councils. A communiqué issued at the end of a virtual meeting of FAAC for December 2021 stated that N675.946 billion total distributable revenue comprised distributable […]
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, before an Ikeja Special Offences Court for alleged forgery. His arraignment followed a ruling by the trial judge, Justice O.O. Abike-Dabiri, that the defendant must first take his plea before entertaining his application objecting to jurisdiction of the court […]
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Buhari cutting his cake on his 79th birthday President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, marked his 79th birthday in Istanbul, Turkey. Photos shared by presidential aide, Buhari Sallau, showed the moment the President cut his birthday cake molded in the national colours, green-white-green. The cake was presented as a surprise to him by Nigerian delegates who […]
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Canada announced Friday the lifting of a ban on foreign travelers from Nigeria and nine other African countries. The country also reimposed testing, warning that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 risks quickly overwhelming hospitals. Apart from Nigeria, the travel restriction on flights is also lifted on South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Malawi […]
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