Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has again tested negative for COVID-19 for the second time. According to a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Terver Akase, in Makurdi, the governor tested negative for COVID-19 on Dec.…
The Technical Adviser of high-flying Rivers United FC, Stanley Eguma, on Thursday said that fatigue was responsible for the team’s loss against Wiki Tourist FC of Bauchi in the Match Day 4 of the 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).…
The Northern Governors Forum has commiserated with the Government and people of Gombe , over the death of the fifteenth Mai Tangale, Dr Abdu Buba Maisheru II , who died on Jan. 10 at 72. Chairman of the Forum and…
The Edo chapter of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has directed primary school teachers across the state to embark on an indefinite strike from Jan. 18. The directive is contained in a communiqué jointly signed by the union’s state Chairman…
The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), on Wednesday said no less than 341 Higher National Diploma (HND) and Third Class degree holders have been admitted into Top-up and Conversion programmes, The classes will be taken at the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, this…
Researchers from the Centre for the Study of the Economies of African (CSEA) say 23,838 deaths and other attributable diseases from smoking will be reduced if the tax on tobacco cigarettes is raised by 50 per cent. The researchers who…
The Kano State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested one Isma’eel Abubkar, 18, for sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl, NSCDC spokesman ASC Ibrahim Abdullahi said on Wednesday, in Kano. Abdullahi said that the…
Tobi Adetunji The Lagos State Police Command has charged the owner of Club Victoria’s to court for violating COVID-19 protocols and vowed to make more violators face the wrought of the law. The 42-year-old Mr Owede Bruno was charged on…
Tobi Adetunji A Customary Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan, yesterday dissolved a 24-year-old marriage between a trader, Olalekan Soetan and wife Basirat over alleged stubbornness. Delivering judgment, the President of the court, Chief Ademola Odunade held that peace was…
A 20-year-old woman, Titilayo Sotin, who allegedly stabbed her neighbour with a bottle, on Wednesday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Badagry, Lagos. The police charged Sotin with assault. The prosecution counsel, ASP Clement Okuomose, told the court that the…
