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COVID-19 cases scale up sharply on Tuesday, with Anambra State recording its daily highest infections since the pandemic broke out in February 2020. Figures churned out by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, revealed that Nigeria posted 1,368 new cases, up from the 574 cases raked in the previous day. The nation also reported […]

Obinwanne Okeke was on Tuesday sentenced in the United States to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a computer-based intrusion fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims. Mr Okeke is also known as Invictus Obi. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia provided details of the court […]

The Federal Government has been subsidising electricity supply across the country to the tune of over N50bn monthly, the Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, has said. He said the subsidy spendings were because the government was worried by the incessant complaints by ordinary Nigerians over the unavoidable and periodic increase in the cost of electricity. […]

Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi has urged Christian leaders to resist the temptation of preaching “prosperity gospel devoid of hard work”. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart noted that the trend had gradually turned the country into a society without values, honesty, hard work and integrity. He advised the Christian leaders to spread the […]

Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, says COVID-19 vaccines carry a certain amount of risk. Nigeria is expected to receive its first batch of allocated doses by the end of February. On February 11, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a document detailing the use and risks associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine. According to the WHO, […]

COVID-19 cases in the two mostly affected centres, Lagos and FCT Abuja have continued to plunge southwards, suggesting that Nigeria may have tamed the COVID-19 pandemic. Nationally on Monday, the NCDC reported just 574 cases, not far from the 690 reported on Sunday. Lagos and Abuja, which are the leaders in grim cases, have now […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned Nigerians against stoking violence through ethnic hatred, adding that his government will deal decisively with perpetrators of such act. In a statement issued on Sunday by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, Buhari said his administration is committed to ensuring the security of all Nigerians, irrespective of religious affiliation or ethnicity. There […]

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC) said it is evaluating the risk to Nigeria of the new Ebola outbreak in Guinea. In a tweet on Sunday, the NCDC said it has been in touch with the World Health Organization and the Africa CDC over the development. It also said it is in touch with the West […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged politicians to imbibe and promote peace, love and unity for the stability and growth of Nigeria. Politics should not be seen as war but a process of choosing a leader, and after elections, there should be love and unity amongst all political parties, Mr Jonathan said. The former president […]

Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has condemned the arrest of #OccupyLekki protesters at the Lekki toll plaza including the detention of comedian Debo Adebayo better known as Mr Macaroni. Ozekhome said even the military allowed people to protest. The senior advocate said this in a message sent to Punch on Saturday. He wrote, […]

Billionaire businessman Ned Nwoko has raised an alarm over plans to assassinate him. The former house of Representatives member made this known during a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday, February 11, 2021. According to him, the assassination plot had a connection with a piece of land in his community in Delta where he was […]

One of the prominent youths in the fight against police brutality and extrajudicial killings in the country, Rinu Oduala, has stepped down from the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution set up to investigate cases of police brutality in the state. She announced the decision in a series of tweets on Friday. “I […]

The Lagos state government on Thursday warned protesters planning to converge at the Lekki toll gate on Saturday to desist from flouting COVID-19 regulations or block roads. The protests were scheduled after the Lagos state judicial panel decided to hand-over the keys to the toll gate back to the Lekki Concession Company. Collection of fees […]

Organisers of the planned protest at the Lekki tollgate have said the ban on cryptocurrency accounts among other reasons triggered their action. They gave the reasons in a press statement made available to our correspondent titled, ‘EndSARS Season 2; Why we will #OccupyLekkiTollGate on Saturday – Campaigners’, on Thursday. According to the statement, the cause […]

The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has said a former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. In a video shot during an APC event in Kogi and shared on Wednesday, Bello said the defection was one of his achievements as the head of the youth […]

President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide, Prof. George Obiozor, has said Igbo must regain their rightful position in Nigeria as it was during the first republic. He insisted that his administration would do everything possible to ensure that Ndigbo regain their lost glory, regretting that Ndigbo have been neglected and unfairly treated for too long despite […]

An Alabama man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the death of his wife. William Jeffrey West was sentenced on Monday by Shelby County Circuit Judge Bill Bostick after he was convicted of manslaughter last year for the 2018 death of his wife, Kathleen Dawn West, 42. The 47-year-old will reportedly get […]