The Federal Government on Thursday said it would announce the date for the reopening of Nigeria’s airspace to commercial flight operations next week. It stated that the airports remained shut as some gaps in the aviation restart process had not been closed. The Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Musa Nuhu, […]
Month: June 2020
The Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, has sacked three members of its executive for alleged anti-party activities. The state Chairman of the party, Chief Ndubuisi Nwobu, announced this at a meeting of the state Executive Committee in Awka. He said their removal was sequel to their indictment […]
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jos, Prof. Sebastian Maimako, says without the assistance of the Federal Government, it will be difficult for universities to meet the conditions outlined for the reopening of schools amidst COVID-19 pandemic. FG had on Tuesday sent a document to the National Assembly detailing guidelines and […]
The Lagos State Government has authorised seven private laboratories as Covid-19 testing centres, said the state Health Commissioner, Prof Akin Abayomi. Abayomi, who spoke at a briefing in Lagos on Friday, said the decision was taken to ramp up Covid-19 testing in the state. He noted that seven local government […]
Loyalists of the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, friends, and family members of the late Senator Abiola Ajimobi arrived at his Oluyole Estate residence in Ibadan early Friday morning to sympathise with his immediate family. Ajimobi, former Acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, died at age 70 after […]
Barely 24 hours after the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, paraded 12 suspected rapists, including a pastor, one Prophet Nnamso Jacob of the Living Power of Zion Church has been arrested for a similar offence. A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Nnudam Fredrick, on Thursday, […]
The National Youth Service Corps has said it will not reopen orientation camps across te country until it is safe to do so. The NYSC, in a statement on Thursday by its Director, Press and Public Relations, Adenike Adeyemi, any report that it was planning to open the camps was […]
Some naval ratings enforcing the lockdown order on Bonny Island, Rivers State, allegedly tortured an entrepreneur, Justus Jim-Halliday, for attempting to go to a neighbour’s house. It was gathered that the 29-year-old Justus was forced into a gutter and ordered to swim in it. Not satisfied with that, the naval […]
A man, suspected to be an armed robber, was on Thursday arrested by men of the Ondo State Police Command after killing one of his gang members in Okitipupa, headquarters of the Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the suspect and his gang members had […]
AN Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo on Thursday discharged and acquitted former acting Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Anthony Elujoba, and ex-acting Bursar, Josephine Akeredolu, of allegations of conspiracy and fraud. The two university officials had been dragged before the court by the Economic […]
