The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has donated two motorised modular fumigators to the Edo State Government in support of the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Elejesi of Ife land, Oba Babatunde Awosunle, who led other members of Ooni COVID-19 team, to the Government House in Benin, announced the […]
Boko Haram fighters have attacked Dapchi town in Yobe State in no fewer than five vehicles, prompting the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole to deploy military jets which killed scores of the terrorists. The Defence Headquarters, Abuja, made this known on Tuesday, saying that the military scrambled two helicopter gunships to bomb two […]
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Tuesday said he would patrol the Kano – Kaduna boundary during the eid-el-fitri so that nobody from Kano State would sneak into his state. The governor said it was part of measures to check the spread of the deadly coronavirus into the state. The eid-el-fitri which marks the […]
Prince Otto of Hesse has been killed in a tragic Ducati motorbike crash in Germany. The 55-year-old died in a horror smash near Lindau and Lake Constance, in the southern state of Bavaria, on Sunday, May 17. He reportedly crashed his €20,000 motorbike into the guard rail near Lake Constance. The cause of the accident is […]
A 31-year-old Nigerian mother had no idea what she was about to witness when she went into labor last February. Now, she has no problem telling her twin sons apart. Brothers Daniel and David were born just minutes apart, yet they look nothing alike except for big brown eyes. Their parents Stacy and Babajide, who […]
The representative of Sokoto East in the Senate, Senator Ibrahim Gobir, claims his constituents are at the mercy of bandits as they have been abandoned to their fate by the military. Gobir made the claim on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday while seconding the motion moved by the Deputy Chief Whip, Sabi Abdullahi, […]
Mali has become the first African nation to secure a moratorium in debt payments from the Paris Club of creditor nations, a French finance ministry source said on Tuesday. Last month, G20 and Paris Club creditor nations agreed to waive most debt payments for the world’s poorest countries in 2020 as a result of the […]
A medical doctor at the Federal Medical Centre Yenogoa has tested positive for COVID-19 in Bayelsa State, bringing the number of active cases in the state to two, Governor Douye Diri has announced. Diri confirmed the case on Tuesday at the Government House, Yenagoa, during a meeting of the COVID-19 taskforce, which he serves as […]