The immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, has died at age 70 after battling coronavirus-related symptoms for a month. Ajimobi, who was governor from 2011 to 2019, was named the Acting National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress last week but never resumed. The former governor was hospitalised at First Cardiologist […]
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The collapse in crude oil prices, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, is expected to “plunge the Nigerian economy into a severe recession, the worst since the 1980s”, the World Bank said on Thursday. The World Bank, in a new report, titled ‘Nigeria in times of COVID-19: Laying foundations for a […]
With Wednesday’s approval of the N2.3 trillion Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan by the Federal Executive Council, the Federal Government has stopped what it called non-critical and administrative capital spending, including the purchase of vehicles. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a […]
A Civil Society Organisation, the Centre for Labour Studies, has called on the Imo State Government to settle the backlog of unpaid pension to retirees in the state. The centre, in a statement by labour lawyer, Femi Aborisade, said it was heartbreaking to see the frustrated pensioners resort to a […]
Armed officers and men from the Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Thursday sealed the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress. Two patrol vehicles were packed strategically in front of the main entrance. The problem in the APC NWC came to a head on Tuesday last week when the […]
Veteran Yoruba actor, Gbolagade Akinpelu, popularly known as Ogun Majek, is dead. It was gathered that he died Thursday morning at his Imalefalafia, Oke-Ado, Ibadan home. The President of Theatre Arts and Movie Practitioners Association of Nigeria, Bolaji Amusan, aka Mr Latin, confirmed his death. Details later…
Armed men suspected to be bandits on Tuesday evening attacked Karare village in the Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State, where they kidnapped the daughter of the village head, Ciroma Ahmadu Karare. Residents said the 20-year-old woman was abducted alongside another 23-year-old woman, who had her baby strapped at […]
There was tension at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Wednesday, prompting the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria to threaten that it may embark on an industrial action soon. It was gathered that the threat by the Group Executive Council of PENGASSAN at the NNPC followed […]
Pirates kidnapped five South Koreans and a Ghanaian after boarding their fishing vessel off Benin, Seoul’s foreign ministry and the International Maritime Bureau said Thursday. The Ghanaian-flagged Panofi Frontier with 30 crew onboard was attacked on Wednesday about 60 nautical miles south of the Beninese capital Cotonou, they both said. […]
Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, has sacked about 10 per cent its workforce. The affected staff were said to have received mail intimating them of the termination of their appointment on Tuesday after their salaries for the month of June were paid. One of the affected staff members said 127 […]
