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Nigeria recorded 521 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, much lower than the 660 on Saturday. The daily death toll also fell to eight, as against the 18 a day before. As of Sunday, Nigeria had 152,074 confirmed cases, with 128,619 discharged. Total death toll stands as 1839.

Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has been arrested by the operatives of the State Police Command. Okorocha was arrested on Sunday after unsealing Royal Spring Palm Estate reportedly linked to his wife, Nkechi. He was said to have gone to the estate with his supporters, policemen, soldiers and personnel of National Security and Civil […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday regretted that Nigerians had shed enough blood over issues that could have been peacefully resolved. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke while reacting to the violence in Gombe State arising from the Billiri chieftaincy tussle. The statement was […]

Former Minister of Education, Public Analyst/Senior Economic Advisor, Oby Ezekwesili has condemned the high rate of insecurity in the country while accusing the Buhari-led administration of bandits a thriving environment. Ezekwesili said this while condemning the abduction of 27 Kagara students from Niger State, adding that a strange incestuous relationship now exists between the government […]

Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in Lagos yesterday that Nigeria might get COVID-19 vaccines in the next 10 days. “We are told that by the end of this month, which is about 10 days from now, we shall get the vaccines,” the minister said. “We do not produce the vaccines. They are manufactured abroad in […]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says government’s foresight and planning were factors responsible for the country’s exit from recession in a short time. The minister said this on Saturday, while appearing on Sunrise Daily, a Channels TV programme, monitored by TheCable. Nigeria exited recession with a 0.11 per cent growth in the fourth quarter of […]

Nigeria has never aspired to make the Republic of Benin or any other country a part of its territory, the spokesman of the nation’s foreign ministry, Ferdinand Nwonye, said Saturday. Reactions have trailed the statement earlier made by Nigeria’s foreign minister, Godfrey Onyeama, who suggested that Benin wanted to become Nigeria’s 37th state after a meeting […]

In March 2019, CNN reported that about 1,600 people have been secretly filmed in motel rooms in South Korea, with the footage live-streamed online for paying customers to watch. Two men were arrested and another pair investigated in connection with the scandal, which involved 42 rooms in 30 accommodations in 10 cities around the country. […]

The Imo State Government has defended the ongoing joint military and police operation in Orlu Local Government Area of the state, aimed at clearing camps allegedly built by members of the IPOB’s Eastern Security Network. Briefing journalists on Friday in Owerri, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Cyprian Akaolisa, said the state government invited […]

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has declared his intention to run for the governorship of Anambra in the November 6 poll. Soludo would be running on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Declaring his ambition on Thursday in Awka, he said he had been a […]

Nigeria’s economy exited recession in the fourth quarter of 2020, recording its first growth in three quarters as coronavirus-linked lockdown was lifted across the country, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a report Thursday. The report said Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 0.11 per cent in the three months between October and December from a year […]

Former Presidential candidate, Oby Ezekwesili has stated that Nigerians are not yet ready for good governance. In a tweet she shared, Ezekwesili said Nigerians absolutely enjoy and believe they deserve to be poorly governed, and politicians understand this. ‘I will repeat it yet again. Citizens of Nigeria are not yet ready for Good Governance. They […]

Tension has enveloped communities in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State following the decision of soldiers to indiscriminately fire gunshots ostensibly to stop alleged planned attacks by men of the Eastern Security Network in the area. Members of the ESN, being sponsored by the Indigenous People of Biafra, were said to have regrouped […]

The long absence of the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, from the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and the country became more pronounced on Wednesday, when she attained the age of 50. Outspoken Mrs Buhari had gone off the radar around September 2020 shortly after the wedding of her daughter, Hanan. An online newspaper, SaharaReporters, had reported […]

The Amazon chief executive, Jeff Bezos, on Wednesday displaced Tesla CEO Elon Musk as the world’s richest person. He ended Mr Musk’s nearly two months reign as the richest. In November, 2020, Mr Musk beat Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking shows that Mr Musk lost about […]

The Senate on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on insecurity in the country. The resolution follows a motion by Senator Sani Musa on the abduction of students from the Government Science College Kagara Niger state. Senator Bima Enagi from Niger State in his contribution, accused the President of incompetence […]

The General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, says he bought his third jet during the raging COVID-19 pandemic, which pushed the country into economic recession. Suleman said this in a recent sermon. Although the date of the sermon could not be verified, the video has gone viral on social media. […]

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 […]