Month: December 2020

Obasanjo is an Igboman, Yoruba hasn’t produced President Since 1999 – Tinubu’s Ally

Gbenga Adeoti

  Senator Anthony Adefuye, a chieftain of the Nigeria’s ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), and an associate of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, one of the strong contenders for Presidency, on Tuesday said it is the turn of the South-West, mostly populated by the Yoruba ethnic group, to produce the President of Nigeria in 2023 as the only region that is yet to do so since the return of democratic governance to the country in 1999. Speaking in an interview with Lagos-based INDEPENDENT newspaper, Adefuye said those clamouring for the Presidency…

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EndASUU Protest’ll be hijacked to destroy Govt, Lecturers’ Property – Ngige

Aliyu Aliyu

  Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, has unveiled plans to hijack planned “EndASUU protest to destroy public and private property or lecturers homes,” insisting that organisers of the protest “will be disappointed.” The Nigerian Government, Ngige insisted, would disappoint all those who were waiting to embark on an EndASUU protest by mid January 2021, should government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), fail to arrive at a compromise. Ngige, who spoke on Tuesday shortly before stepping into a closed door meeting with the leadership…

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South Africa isolated as 501.V2, dangerous COVID-19 strain, rocked Nation

Aoko Benjamin

  Here is what you need to know about 501.V2, new strain of COVID-19 never witnessed anywhere in the World before, which is presently rocking South Africa.   Countries block travel after South African health officials say new variant is dominant among recently confirmed infections. South Africa is facing increasing isolation as more countries ban travel over the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus. Israel, Turkey, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland are among countries that have halted air travel to and from South Africa following the announcement that…

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Suicide Bombers Plan Attack on Churches, Others During Yuletide – DSS

Precious Ibekwe

  The Nigeria Secret Service, Department of State Services (DSS), has alerted of plans by enemies of the state to unleash terror on vulnerable places such as critical infrastructure, places of worship like Churches and Mosques, as well as recreational centres during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. According to the DSS, the planned dastardly acts are to be executed through the use of explosives, suicide bombing and other dangerous weapons. Spokesperson for the Service, Dr. Peter Afunanya, who raised the alarm in a statement, Tuesday, said the ultimate aim…

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Why Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, 3rd Mainland Bridge’ll be Closed – Official

Damola Oyede

  The Nigerian Government has announced a fresh plan for temporary and full shut down of two important tranport links to Lagos, the commercial capital. Federal Controller of Works for Lagos, Olukayode Popoola, announced a 72-hour total closure of the Third Mainland Bridge to cast concrete on the expansion joints. Popoola announced this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday. He said the shutdown will take effect from midnight on Saturday to midnight on Tuesday. He added that construction works had reached the stage for casting…

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How 139 Nigerians died from Road Accidents across 3 States in 6 Months-FRSC

Precious Ibekwe

  More facts have emerged on how 139 Nigerians died from road Accidents across just three of the 36 states in the last six months. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Zone RS5 comprising Edo, Delta and Anambra, which showed this in a report, maintained that all the 139 fatalities were recorded in 359 Road Traffic Crashes between June and December. Mr Emmanuel Abe, Zonal Commanding Officer (ZCO) of the zone, disclosed this in Benin on Tuesday while addressing motorists at the flag off of the 2020 ember month campaign.…

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Gas Flaring: Buhari Commissions NPDC’s 200m scuf Waste-to-Wealth Facility

Efe Wellington

  Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has recorded a major feat in gas flaring reduction as it announced completion of integrated gas handling installation designed to function as a waste-to wealth facility that converts hitherto flared gas to valuable lean gas that is LPG cum domestic cooking gas. President Muhammadu Buhari has already been slated, according to the Corporation for the commissioning of the 200 million scuf per day capacity plant. The IGHF via its LPG Storage and Dispensing Unit, dispenses at full throughput about 330 tonnes of LPG per…

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COVID-19: Nigeria shuts bars, night clubs, restricts Churches, Mosques

Aliyu Aliyu

  The Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Monday issued fresh directives on how to curtail the spread of the virus, imposing a five -week restriction on large gatherings. Mr Boss Mustapha, the PTF Chairman, and also Secretary to the Government of the Federation, made this known at the national media briefing in Abuja. According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari has authorised the PTF to engage with the states and FCT to deploy legal structures and resources, including enforcement, to manage the pandemic within their jurisdictions. The fresh…

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Australia cancels order for 51m vaccine doses as trials run into trouble

Precious Ibekwe

  Australia has canceled an order for 51 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by CSL Ltd. and the University of Queensland after trials ran into difficulties, Bloomberg has reported. The government said Friday it’s replacing most of the CSL doses with more purchases of other planned vaccines. Australia has ordered an extra 20 million shots being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc, and 11 million more Novavax Inc. doses, the government said. The CSL failure shows that despite the groundbreaking progress by Pfizer Inc.…

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Nigeria’s top Journalist, Juliana Francis, Wins Three NMMA Awards

Aoko Benjamin

    Nigeria’s seasoned Crime Editor and Media Merit Award (NMMA) Defense Reporter of the Year, Juliana Francis, has reacted to her victory at the 2020 edition of the prestigious award where she clinched three gongs. Francis was crowned the Defense Reporter, Power Reporter, and Human Rights Reporter of the Year at the event held at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, country’s commercial capital on Friday, December 18, 2020. Reacting to the award on her Facebook page, Francis said the year 2020 “has been an eventful and unforgettable year in all…

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