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A total 816 people have died in a cholera outbreak since the start of the year, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says. Some 31,425 people are suspected infected across 22 states and the federal capital territory and 311 have been confirmed, according to a situation report NCDC released on Monday. “Between the 1st of […]

A State High Court in Owerri has ordered the final and absolute forfeiture of Royal Palm Springs Hotel and other properties said to belong to Senator Rochas Okorocha and other members of his family. The forfeited properties are contained in pages 226 to 272 of the Imo state Government white paper report by a Judicial […]

An Ekiti State High Court on Monday sentenced a 19-year-old man, Oluwaseun Ademola, to life imprisonment for attempted robbery. The police prosecutor, Dolapo Oyewole, told the court that the offence was committed on May, 6, 2017 at the Idolofin area of Ado Ekiti, where Ademola robbed a rider, Arowolo Suleiman, of his Bajaj motorcycle. Oyewole […]

A former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has promised to build an Islamic University in Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown. Mr Okorocha, a senator and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said the Rochas Okorocha Foundation would build the university. The former governor was recently conferred with the traditional title of Maga […]

Kanunta Kanu, younger brother of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has suspended the sit-at-home order in the south-east region. This is coming a few hours after the secessionist group insisted that it would not go back on its decision to begin the lockdown on Monday. In a statement, Kanunta stated that the […]

No fewer than 50 police officers were gruesomely murdered by bandits and other criminal elements in the last 38 days while about 211 other Nigerians were killed during the same period. Sunday Vanguard review of security situation in Nigeria during the period showed that about N1.415billion was demanded as ransom for 321 kidnapped victims across […]

The Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, on Saturday in Maiduguri, received Ruth Pogu, one of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents seven years ago at the Government Secondary School Chibok. The Chibok girl returned with two children, which she gave birth to while in the captivity of the insurgents. Ruth, alongside […]

Those accusing the President of handling bandits and terrorists with a softer hand than the way secessionists are being treated have full of hatred, Mr Femi Adesina has said. Adesina, who is President Muhammadu Buhari’s media adviser, made the statement while defending his principal in a piece titled ‘See How They’re Being Sent To God […]

Former Military President Ibrahim Babaginda says he fought corruption better than President Muhammadu Buhari and other democratic leaders. The former president said this in an interview granted to ARISE TV on Friday. He said people who worked under him are saints compared to those currently in power. The military leader said while he moved against […]

Former Military President Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) has again reminisced on the annulment of the June 12 1993 Presidential Election, saying there would have been a bloody coup if that election had not been annulled. The election was between Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention (NRC) and MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). […]

Nigeria on Thursday recorded 11 additional deaths from COVID-19, raising the total death toll in four days to 29. The country also recorded 566 new cases in the last 24 hours, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said in an update on its Facebook page Thursday night. According to the update, the new infection figure has […]

A Magistrate’s Court in Yola on Thursday remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, the son of late former President Umaru Yar’Adua, in prison for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. Yar’Adua, a 36 year-old student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing death by dangerous driving […]

Emirates’ flights to and from Nigeria will remain suspended until 15 August 2021, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier, has said. This negates the earlier announcement by the UAE authorities, which announced a lift of the ban on Nigerian effect with effect from Thursday. In a travel update posted on its website, Emirates said the […]

The family of late Nollywood Actress, Racheal Oniga has fixed August 26th and 27th, 2021 for her burial, the deceased son, Tunji Oniga said. Oniga made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. The wake keep would hold 26 August at her residence in Magodo, Lagos […]

Less than 15 weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari returned from London where he had gone to receive medical attention, he has returned to the UK for “a summit and scheduled medical follow-up.” As usual, Mr Buhari’s publicists did not disclose what the medical follow-up is for, only noting that the president will be in the […]

The Federal Government has failed to reach out to the National Association of Resident Doctors for negotiation 48 hours after its members embarked on strike, The Punch has learnt. The President of NARD, Dr. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, said this during a chat with Punch correspondent on Monday. He said, “We wrote letters to the Federal Ministry of Labour […]

A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has asked Nigerians to reject the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general polls. Jega, in an interview with BBC Hausa Service monitored by our reporters yesterday, said the two big parties had […]

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, cautioned residents on thefrightening figures of hospitalisations and fatalities resulting from coronavirus. He confirmed that Lagos State had been recording a daily average of six deaths at its isolation centres in the last one week. According to him, no fewer than 30 persons have died of COVID-19 in […]