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As the third wave of the COVID-19 infections is spreading in Nigeria, the Lagos State government has said that as part of the proactive measures to contain the spread, moreo isolation centres have been reopened to complement the existing ones even as the state has attained a 50 per cent occupancy. Abayomi who spoke at the 2021 Annual General Meeting...

A Magistrate Court sitting in Yola has remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, the 36-year-old son of the late former President of Nigeria, Musa Yar’Adua, in prison custody for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. The former president’s son, who is a student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) in Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing...

One of the seven deputy national officers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that resigned their positions on Tuesday, Diran Odeyemi, has withdrawn his letter of resignation. Odeyemi, who is the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, withdrew his resignation letter on Thursday at the Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting of the party at its national secretariat in Abuja, and pledged...

The Lagos House of Assembly has amended the state Pension Law for former governors and other political office holders, reducing their benefits and emoluments by 50 percent. The House approved the recommendations sequel to the presentation of the report by the chairman of the House Committee on Establishment, Training and Pension, Yinka Ogundimu, during plenary. Ogundimu, representing Agege II, said the...

A youth leader of PDP in Adamawa, Ikamu Hamidu Kato, has been sentenced to two years in prison for insulting President Muhammadu Buhari and his secretary Boss Mustapha. A chief Magistrate Court on Monday sentenced Kato, PDP’s youth leader in Hong council area,to a yearlong prison term for use of abusive words with a N25,000 fine option. He was also sentenced...

The Federal Government has confirmed 32 cases of Delta Variant of COVID-19, bringing the country officially into the third wave of the pandemic. The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chike Ihekweazu, disclosed this at the national briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 in Abuja on Monday. He said 80 percent of the tests conducted in...

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has finally met his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, and sent a special message to the members of the proscribed group from his detention under the custody of the Department of State Service (DSS). Kanu, who met with Ejiofor, on Monday, expressed gratitude to all members of the group and those who...

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, on Monday appointed DCP Tunji Disu as the new Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT). Disu replaced DCP Abba Kyari, who was suspended following his indictment by the FBI. Just like Kyari, Disu is a ‘celebrity’ cop who is very popular on the microblogging platform, Twitter. While serving as the Commander of...

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, (AYCF) has vowed to shut down Nigeria if anything should happen to embattled Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) DCP Abba Kyari, following his indictment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over fraud and money laundering allegations, as well as the subsequent suspension by the Police Service Commission (PSC). The AYCF, in...

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Monday resumed its industrial action over unpaid salaries and benefits. Reports from some government owned hospitals across the country showed that they have downed tools, leaving patients to their fate, even as other health workers try to fill the gaps. The doctors are also demanding the immediate withdrawal of a circular removing House Officers from...