Nollywood actor and comedian, Williams Uchemba has revealed that he adopted an 18-year-old carpenter identified as Demola and granted him a university scholarship. The philanthropic actor disclosed this on his Instagram page, while narrating his encounter with the young man and how he came up with his latest decision. see image- Good job!!!!
The government of Chad Republic has made a formal request to the federal government to to connect the country to the Nigerian electricity grid. Chadian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abakar Saleh Chachaimi made the request during a visit to the Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman in Abuja. While the ambassador stressed the historical and economic value of […]
Monica Dongban-Mensem has been sworn-in as the president of the court of appeal by the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN) Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad. Speaking at the ceremony which Governors of Sokoto, Plateau, Niger and Kebbi States attended on Friday June 19, Muhammad asked Dongban-Mensem to live up to expectations by maintaining a cordial relationship with her colleagues on the […]
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, and two other members of the Omo Eko Pataki Forum, has alleged that the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu; his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, and many top political office holders in the state are not natives of Lagos State. The […]
Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has reacted to the defection of Governor Godwin Obaseki to the Peoples Democratic Party and the suspension of the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole. Saraki who welcomed Obaseki to the PDP, said he ignored Oshiomhole’s verbal attack because he knew “a day would come when his masquerade will […]
Brazil has become the second country in the world after the US to confirm more than one million cases of COVID-19. The health ministry on Friday night reported 54,771 new cases, the highest daily increase in any country since the pandemic began, taking the total to 1,032,913. The officials said about half of increase was […]
The Vice-President of Nigeria Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has said the country needs a national debate to examine the issues around the size and cost of governance, which has often been described as expensive and unsustainable. He explained that it could be difficult for the government to do something about its cost by itself but that […]
The United Nations Health Agency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed the organization is analyzing dexamethasone, a steroid that scientists from the United Kingdom (UK) say can save the lives of critically ill COVID-19 patients. Scientists from the University of Oxford, UK, announced on Tuesday that they had found dexamethasone cured patients critically ill with […]
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has revealed that the nation still falls short on testing, saying that it is the weakest spot in it’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Ihekweazu the agency is working aggressively to increase the testing across the country, as it ambitiously […]