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BREAKING Coronavirus: Edo records first confirmed case
Sodiq Oyeleke Edo State has recorded its first confirmed coronavirus case. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced this on Monday via its verified Twitter handle. The NCDC said additional five cases of Coronavirus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total number of cases to 35. The NCDC via its Twitter handle, @NCDCgov, on Monday
BREAKING: NCDC confirms five new cases in Abuja, Lagos, Edo
Dayo Ojerinde The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed additional five cases of Coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 35. The NCDC via its Twitter handle, @NCDCgov, on Monday said, “Five new cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed in Nigeria: two in the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja), two in Lagos State and
BREAKING N3bn graft: EFCC arraigns ex-HoS, Oyo-Ita
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday (today) arraigned the immediate past Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winnifred Oyo-Ita, for N3bn graft. She was arraigned before a judge at the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja. The ex-HOS was sacked in September last year after about N600m was allegedly found in
Address rumours surrounding Osinbajo, Bakare tells Presidency
Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja Lagos-based preacher, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has asked the Presidency to address the rumours surrounding Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. Bakare, who is the Serving Overseer, Dominion Hall, Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly) said this while delivering a sermon on Sunday. There have been reports in the last couple of months about
Nigeria consumed N2.64tn petrol in 13 months, says NNPC
’Femi Asu and Okechukwu Nnodim The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said on Sunday that it sold a total of 21.51 billion litres of petrol worth N2.64tn from December 2018 to December 2019. The NNPC said the sale of white products from December 2018 to December 2019 by its subsidiary, the Petroleum Products Marketing Company, stood
Spain loses 394 to pandemic in 24 hours
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Spain plans to extend its state of emergency for another 15 days, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced, as the number of Covid-19 deaths soars in the country. Sanchez, who addressed citizens in a televised briefing on Sunday, after meeting with health and security officials, said he expected the Parliament to approve his
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Obaseki, Oshiomhole working to end rift – Gov’s aide
Sola Shittu, Benin The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, and his estranged political godfather, Adams Oshiomhole, have commenced consultations to end the political rift between them. Obaseki’s Chief of Staff, Mr Taiwo Akerele, revealed this while responding to questions from reporters during an event to mark his 44th birthday in Benin, on Sunday. He said
Buhari, Gbajabiamila and the greedy bats
Tunde Odesola; (tundeodes2003@yahoo.com) Sight, the king of the five senses, is superior to touch, taste, hearing and smell. But sight is inferior to insight. I contemplated this truth last week when I interrogated the essence of a man whom life blinded with a vicious uppercut. But, instead of lying floored on his back in defeat, he
Catholic priest celebrating Mass slumps, dies in Rivers
Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt Tragedy struck in Rivers State on Sunday as the parish priest of the Saint Helen’s Catholic Church, Ogbogoro, Rev. Fr. Simeon Kuro, slumped and died while celebrating the Mass. The incident, it was said happened while Kuro was delivering the homily on the church’s altar in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area
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