Less than two weeks to council election in Kano State, about 6 candidates vying for elective posts failed drug tests. Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) on Wednesday January 6, announced that it disqualified six candidates vying for Chairmanship and Councillorship positions in the forthcoming...
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Saturday, dismissed the certificate forgery case the All Progressives Congress, APC, and one of its members, Mr. Williams Edobor, instituted against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Ahmed...
The Majority Leader of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Tim Owhefere is dead. He died late night of Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at the Federal Medical Center, Asaba. Hon Owhefere, a fourth term lawmaker, was until his death, the member representing Isoko North...
A retired Commissioner of Police, Yomi Onashile, has died of COVID-19 complications while receiving treatment at Isolation Centre at Olodo, in Ibadan, Oyo State. Onashile, a resident of Ashiru Estate, Adeoyo Road, died at about 10:00 a.m., on Saturday. Onashile was said to have been...
A former Director General of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Ben Egbuna is dead. The veteran journalist and broadcast media administrator passed away on Friday. Born on July 13, 1949, Egbuna was the golden voice of FRCN network news in the 80s and...
Ekiti State government have ordered Public and private hospitals to henceforth test all patients with fever, cough, catarrh and the likes for COVID-19. The state commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Oyebanji Filani who gave the directive in a statement in Ado Ekiti said...
State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Benue State Council, Comrade Victoria Asher is dead. Comrade Asher died Saturday, January 30th at the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi following complications from Cesarian Section (CS) where she was delivered of twins on Saturday 23 January...
A police officer and a soldier have been reportedly killed and guns carted away by unknown gunmen in the Oton area of Sapele in Delta state. The tragic incident has been confirmed by the police public relations officer in the state, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya. The PPRO...
A High Court sitting in Kaduna has ordered the release of Zeenat, wife of Shiekh Ibrahim Elzakzaky, the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN for COVID-19 treatment. It will be recalled that last Thursday, Mohammed, son of the IMN leader, said his mother, Zeenat,...
The Northern Patriots Assembly (NPA) has called on the Police to arrest former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu and Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu over vacation order issued to Fulani herdsmen in Ondo. The NPA, which made this known at a press conference on Sunday in...
