The Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, began the rollout of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in the state. Some of the centres designated for vaccination witnessed a large turnout of residents, while others had few residents as of the time our correspondent visited them. Vaccination at the Primary Health Centre in Meiran did not commence until […]
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The children of Tanko Salihu Islamic School, Tegina, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, have spent 88 days in captivity. A parent of one of the 134 children still in captivity said the parents were running around and begging people to support them to raise the extra ransom being demanded by the kidnappers in […]
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A burnt house and youths during a protest against gunmen attack on Yelwa Zangam community in the Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State…on Wednesday. Photos: James Abraham Youths deposit corpses at Government House Eat dead bodies if you can’t protect us, protesting Plateau youths tell govt officials Protesters destroy governor’s billboard Lalong re-imposes […]
Continue ReadingAkwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a 47-year-old woman, Gertrude Akpan, to 10 years’ imprisonment for trafficking in children. The convict was said to have bought a six-year-old boy in Uyo and taken him to Owerri, Imo State, where she sold the victim to one Kate Ogbonna. The court, presided over […]
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Kogi State Government has confirmed the death of eight persons from diarrhoea-related diseases in five local government areas of the state. In statement issued on Wednesday and made available to newsmen in Lokoja, the state capital, government also confirmed that a total of 129 cases had so far been reported while 66 persons had been […]
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econd Republic senator and former chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Chief Olabiyi Durojaiye, will be buried on September 18, 2021. The eldest son of the deceased, Abimbola Durojaiye, disclosed this in Lagos on Wednesday. The former National Democratic Coalition chieftain died on Tuesday after a brief illness at the age of 88. Abimbola said […]
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Eminent Nigerians on Wednesday in Lagos poured encomiums the late Mohammed Fawehinmi, the eldest son of the late legal icon and activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, at the celebrate his life and times by friends and families at a service of song. Mohammed’s siblings, families, classmates, colleagues and friends, including human rights lawyer, Femi Falana; Aare […]
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Family of the late business mogul and philanthropist, Captain (Dr.) Idahosa Okunbo, has debunked report that they have put up his multi-million naira hotel in Abuja or any of his assets for sale. A statement signed on behalf of the family by Kingsley Okunbo, described the publication as “evil and reprehensible concoction of preposterous fallacy […]
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Clears Disu, Abayomi, Oluwo, others Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mrs Olayinka Adeyemi, has recommended Chidinma Ojukwu (22) and her accomplice Adedapo Quadri for a murder trial over the murder of Super Television Chief Executive, Mr Michael Usifo Ataga. On the other hand, she cleared Babalola Disu, Abayomi Olutayo, Oluwo Ifeoluwa and other […]
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A former rector of Kogi State Polytechnic, Prof Mathew Idowu Ajibero has passed on. He reportedly died in the early hours of Wednesday in his home town, Kabba after a brief illness. Mourning the passage, the polytechnic, In a statement by its public relations officer, Mrs Uredo Omaleand available described Ajibero’s death as ‘most painful […]
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