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Nollywood actor, entrepreneur and comic act Chinedu Ikedieze, professionally known as Aki, turned 43 on Saturday and he shared the picture of a cake with his face on it. Born on the 12th of December 1977, his primary and secondary education was in Aba, Abia State. He later bagged a Higher National Diploma (HND) in […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Saturday asked the federal government to declare a state of emergency over the state of insecurity in the country after bandits abducted scores of students in Katsina. In a statement Mr Atiku said the government must abandon old strategies and embrace better ones. “The abduction of a large number […]

Nigerians are beginning to express anxiety due to reports of a likely second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, amid an economic recession and job losses reputedly caused by the first wave of the pandemic. This is as the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Saturday tested positive for COVID-19, while his Kaduna State counterpart, Mallam […]

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has gone into isolation. The governor, who stated this on Saturday in a broadcast, said the measure was necessary as family members and senior government officials around him tested positive for COVID-19. El-Rufai said he is in self-isolation as a precaution pending a COVID-19 test to be conducted on Sunday. […]

The Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State, has declared the deduction of N50 as stamp duty on teller deposits or electronic transfer of funds illegal. The court, presided by Nnamdi Dimgba, gave the verdict in a case between a businessman, Rupert Irikefe, and the Central Bank of Nigeria, Zenith Bank, and the Attorney General […]

Nigeria has set a new record in daily COVID-19 cases, after recording 796 new cases on Friday, indicative of the outbreak of a second wave of the virus. Friday’s was the highest daily record ever published by the NCDC and broke the 19 June record when 745 cases were registered. According to the data released […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has gone into self-isolation, the state government said on Friday. This was contained in a statement titled ‘Sanwo-Olu goes into self-isolation’ by the Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi. He said one of the close aides to Sanwo-Olu tested positive for coronavirus, necessitating the governor to isolate. However, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will not succumb to threats or undue pressure from “professional critics” just to satisfy the selfish needs of few individuals in the country, the presidency has said. The president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made this position known in a series of tweets on his personal handle in […]

Ahead of a possible second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the Nigerian government has ordered the reopening of all isolation and treatment centres in the country. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, made this known at a Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday. He said the move was to prepare the country […]

Death row inmate Brandon Bernard has been executed in Indiana after last-minute clemency pleas were rejected by the US Supreme Court. Bernard, 40, was convicted of murder in 1999 when he was a teenager, and is the youngest offender to be executed by the federal government in nearly 70 years. Bernard told the family of […]

Nigeria on Thursday recorded 675 new COVID-19 cases, its highest since 23 August when 601 cases were reported. The highest number ever recorded since February when an index case arrived from Italy was 745 on 19 June. Since 1 December, the nation has been reporting numbers in excess of 300 infections, capping it on Wednesday […]

Global activists and celebrities on Thursday hit out at the Federal Government over crackdown on peaceful #EndSARS protesters demonstrating against police brutality two months ago. In an open letter addressed to the President Muhammadu Buhari, and made public in Lagos to coincide with International Human Rights Day, 60 activists condemned the government for “unwarranted force […]

The World Bank on Thursday projected that the number of poor Nigerians will increase from the current 90 million to about 100 million by 2022 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country’s economy. It stated that by 2022, about 11 million more Nigerians were expected to fall into poverty due to […]

The Nigerian government has ordered mobile telecommunication operators in the country to stop the sale and registration of new SIM cards. The directive applies to all mobile operators including MTN, Globacom, Airtel and Etisalat. The directive was contained in a statement by Nigerian Communications Commission. The NCC said that the move would allow the audit […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has faulted reports of the #EndSARS protests by the foreign press. The President especially mentioned that the reports of CNN and BBC of the #EndSARS protest were not balanced, as they failed to give attention to the Policemen that were killed. Buhari, in a short tweet that has generated thousands of reactions […]

The National Population Commission, NPC, Tuesday, announced that Nigeria now has an estimated population of 206 million people. The Chairman of the NPC, Nasir Kwarra, who disclosed this in Abuja, at a press briefing on the commencement of the 11th phase of Enumeration Area Demarcation, EAD, also announced the next population and housing census would […]