The National Examinations Council (NECO) has postponed the ongoing 2020 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE) indefinitely due to prevailing security challenges, occasioned by the #EndSARS protests across the federation. The notice was contained in a statement issued yesterday by the organisation’s Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani. He acknowledged that the demonstrations […]
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•Six others abductedGunmen have killed two people and abducted six others in Faskari Local Council of Katsina State. One person was murdered and two kidnapped when the assailants invaded Bilbis village at about 1:30 a.m. yesterday, while another resident was slain and three more captured at Yantuwaru community in the wee hours of Saturday. According […]
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N246 budgeted for one month medical care of every Nigerian in 2021 Concerns over no direct allocations for COVID-19, future pandemics FG allocates 4.526% of budget to sector compared to 12.5% by S’Africa The Federal Government has provided explanation why it failed for the umpteenth time to meet the Abuja Declaration by African leaders in […]
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The Shoprite shopping mall in Lekki Phase 2 was looted on October 22, 2020, after the army repressed peaceful protesters gathered at the Lekki Toll Gate despite curfew. Over 20 important state properties have been set on fires, multiple banks and shops were destroyed and food shops looted. Sophie BOUILLON / AFP The spate of […]
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A resident carries a bag of food on her head during a mass looting of a warehouse with COVID-19 food palliatives that were not given during lockdown to relieve people of hunger, in Jos, Nigeria, on October 24, 2020. Ifiok Ettang / AFP Youths risk death with expired foods, drugs Many killed, many injured Abuja, […]
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Kwara State Government has relaxed the curfew it imposed on the state from 24 hours to between 6p.m. and 8 a.m. daily until further notice. This means members of the public can move around between 8 a.m. and 6p.m. daily within the metropolis. This followed a security council meeting the State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq held […]
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The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Saturday dismissed social media reports that he jetted out of the country in the heat of the #ENDSARS protests, especially the alleged shooting at the Lekki Toll Plaza. He decried the attack on and looting of public and private assets in the […]
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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Sunday quoted President Muhammadu Buhari as condemning the looting of public and private property in parts of the country. He qouted the President as saying that the development was inimical to public good and stood condemned. Shehu disclosed these in a […]
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South-West Governors have expressed shock over the extent of the destruction of public assets and private properties by hoodlums in Lagos State. The Governors and South-West Ministers were in Lagos on Sunday to commiserate with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the destruction of public and private facilities by hoodlums who had hijacked the #EndSARS protests by […]
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Lagos State Government has announced that private and public schools remain closed in the state. Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, announced this on Sunday. He had earlier tweeted that only public schools remained closed in the state before giving an update that the extended closure includes private schools. Omotoso also announced that curfew […]
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