Fire on Monday gutted a section of the World Trade Centre building located in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. An eyewitness said the fire started from the top of the skyscraper which dots the skyline of Central Business District, Abuja as smoke billowed from the pinnacle. First responders including firefighters […]
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The Federal Government has released guidelines ahead of the planned resumption of schools at every level in the country but failed to disclose the dates. The guidelines outlined actions, measures and requirements needed for the safe reopening of schools after the COVID – 19 pandemic. According to the guidelines released […]
Ogun State Government says it has yet to agree on the date to reopen churches and mosques as requested by the Christian Association of Nigeria. The state government added that CAN should not compare markets with churches, saying the continued closure of worship centres was taken in consultation with the […]
The National Parents Teachers’ Association of Nigeria has said it is confused about the proclamation by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, that schoolchildren nationwide would not be allowed to sit the West African Senior School Certificate Examination slated for August 4 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The […]
No fewer than 356 soldiers in the North-East and other theatres of operation have applied to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, for voluntary retirement, citing “loss of interest” as their reason for disengagement. The soldiers wrote to the army chief on July 3, 2020, under Reference […]
About 20 bandits including their leaders have been neutralized in airstrikes executed by the Air component of Operation Hadarin Daji in the Zamfara State section of the Kagara Forest. The Defence headquarters said this was achieved last Thursday, pursuant to human intelligence reports indicating that some bandits had relocated with […]
DR Congo’s justice minister resigned Saturday, two weeks after he was briefly detained against a background of political crisis in the country. Celestin Tunda Ya Kasende sent his resignation to Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba following “a personal examination of the situation”, he said in a video message released to […]
Men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ogun State Command, have intercepted over 300 fuel-laden sacks abandoned by suspected vandals. The fuel was reportedly scooped from the pipelines belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in Akute, in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state. The Public […]
Defence counsel in the April 5, 2018 Offa bank robbery, Mathias Emelibe, on Friday prayed a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin to order the exhumation of the corpse of a principal suspect in the robbery incident, Michael Adikwu, who allegedly died in police custody in Abuja. This, he […]
Residents of Olugboyo Close, Giwa Oke-Aro, Ogun State, on Friday woke to find a newborn abandoned with a shawl wrapped around him. The incident occurred barely two weeks after a girl with cerebral palsy was abandoned in front of a shop on Tajudeen Bello Street, also in Giwa Oke-Aro. City […]
