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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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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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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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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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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Government unusual” was somewhat patented by former Osun Governor, Rauf Aregbesola (now Interior minister), to capture a willy-nilly push for development, of a state, stagnant for far too long. Somewhat, that phrase captured it all: the high and the low; the whoop of victory and the moo of defeat; the abuse and the praise; the […]
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The litigation involving All Progresives Congres (APC) Senator Smart Adeyemi and Senator Dino Melaye has been full of drama at the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, Abuja. The people of Kogi West District anxiously await the judgment. Where will the pendulum of victory swing? Deputy Editor Emmanuel Oladesu examines the power struggle between the two […]
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Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi and political appointees are making an unprecedented sacrifice of 50 per cent salary cut to keep the wheel of governance moving, amid fiscal challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic. Odunayo Ogunmola examines the issues surrounding the salary reduction. It was not an easy decision to take but it had to be […]
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Nigeria on Monday night recorded 242 new cases of the Coronavirus all over the country. According to a tweet released by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, (NCDC), 88 new cases were recorded in Lagos, 64 in Kano State, 49 in Katsina, 13 in Kaduna State, nine in Ogun State and six in Gombe State […]
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“My Dear People of Ondo State, The Hon. Commissioner for Health and Chairman of inter- ministerial Committee on COVID-19 has just briefed us on the current status of Ondo State on COVID-19. The summary is that for last week we recorded three cases. This makes a total of sixteen cases recorded so far in Ondo […]
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