A fifteen-year-old boy is currently cooling his heels at the police custody in Osi-Ekiti, for allegedly defiling a three-year-old girl. The incident according to eyewitness occurred in Osi Ekiti, Ido Osi Local government area of Ekiti state. It was gathered that the young boy lured the little girl with a confectionary […]
India on Sunday celebrated the first direct flight from Nigeria when Nigeria’s Air Peace airline airlifted 312 India citizens from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA , Lagos to Kochi, India. According to the verified twitter account of Indians in Nigeria, @india_nigeria, the “repatriation of India nationals from Nigeria began […]
Nigeria on Sunday recorded three hundred and seven, 307, COVID-19 cases in the country. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, made this known in a post on its official Twitter page. Lagos State recorded 188, while FCT followed with 44 cases. The country has so far recorded 10,162 cases […]
The COVID-19 pandemic appeared to have outwitted containment efforts at the weekend as the country recorded its highest daily figure at a time Nigerians were heaving a sigh of relief from weeks of lockdowns. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had on Saturday announced 553 new infections, bringing the […]
Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has ordered a thorough investigation into the circumstances that led to the death of a 100 level Microbiology student of the University of Benin, Miss Vera Uwaila, who died from injuries sustained after she was gang-raped and hit with a fire extinguisher in her […]
THE Olugbo of Ugbolan d, Oba Frederick Akinrutan, yesterday, renewed his position that he is the number one monarch in the South-West region, as he says the issue of supremacy has been settled in his favour. Speaking with Vanguard, Akinrutan said the dust raised among the Obas in the South-West […]
Bauchi State Government has revealed that the mysterious deaths recorded in the State has been as a result of illegal abortions. An investigation carried out by the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency has revealed that illegal abortion by unqualified medical practitioners is the cause of mysterious deaths in Azare […]
President Donald Trump said Friday he was breaking off US ties with the World Health Organization, which he says failed to do enough to combat the initial spread of the novel coronavirus. Trump had already suspended funding to the UN agency, accusing it of being a “puppet” of China as the […]
Four persons were confirmed dead, while six others sustained various degrees of injuries in three separate accidents that occurred at different locations in Ogun State on Friday. This was contained in a statement issued by the Ogun State sector command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and made available […]
The family of Chief Imam of Kabba, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Ejibunu, has confirmed he died of coronavirus, The Nation reports. Kogi State Government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have been at loggerheads over COVID-19 cases in Kogi. While NCDC insisted two cases were confirmed, the Government insisted […]
