The United States Department of Health services has bought almost the entire next three month’s supply of breakthrough Coronavirus drug remdesivir for itself, leaving the rest of the world possibly without any supply for the next three months. Trump’s administration has bought the next 500,000 doses of the anti-viral drug, Remdesvir, from manufacturer Gilead, a […]
Fox News has fired host Ed Henry of America’s Newsroom after an investigation into an allegation of sexual misconduct was leveled by a former employee. Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and FOX News Media President & Executive Editor Jay Wallace made the announcement in a memo to all employees on Wednesday, July 1. According […]
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency has announced a new price band of N140.80 to N143.80 per litre for Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol. Sources at the Abuja headquarters of the agency said the rise in petrol price was primarily due to the increase in global crude oil prices. A circular released on […]
Volvo Cars have announced they are recalling 2.2 million vehicles worldwide including 170,000 UK cars due to an ‘extremely rare’ seatbelt safety issue. According to report, the recall is the Swedish brand’s biggest ever, and it applies to passenger cars built between 2006 and 2018. There are eight affected models, and they include the S60, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Port Harcourt’s zonal office on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 arraigned Onwuzuruike Ikenna Kingsley (aka Jeff Sikora), a self-styled President/ Chief Executive Officer of United States-based Prime Trust Credit Union Bank before Justice A.T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on an eight […]
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said he regretted not joining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) long before he did. Reminiscing his 13- year sojourn in the All Progressives Congress (APC), the governor said he had come to realise the PDP stood for the values he so much cherished and lived for. Obaseki spoke on […]
The BET Awards, which honor Black excellence in entertainment and sports, held its first-ever virtual ceremony on Sunday night due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. The event, hosted by former Real co-host Amanda Seales was also the 20th-anniversary of BET. It was aired simultaneously via ViacomCBS networks and, for the first time ever, on CBS in its national […]
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 false She said, “To put […]
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state, and his wife, Edith, have gone into self-isolation after one of their daughters recently tested positive for the novel Coronavirus. The governor disclosed this on his Instagram page on Friday June 26. ”Earlier today, Edith and I received the news that one of our daughters has tested positive for #COVID19. […]