Not A Single COVID-19 Death In 24 Hours – NCDC
Nigeria recorded no new COVID-19-related death in 24 hours. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed this in its latest update for Thursday, September 24. The last time NCDC reported no new COVID-19 death was on Tuesday, September 22 – which was the first time in the month on September. But with two deaths […]
Ogun Lawmakers Summon Commissioners Over ₦2.5bn
Ogun State House of Assembly has invited the State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Dapo Okubadejo and his counterpart for Health Dr Tomi Coker, to brief the lawmakers on the State Government’s financial inflow and outflow towards containing the spread of COVID-19 pandemic so as to guide it on the approval for the recently proposed ₦2.5bn […]
Nigeria Not Building Rail Line Into Niger Republic – Garba
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Thursday cleared the air on the construction of a rail line from Nigeria to the Niger Republic. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Wednesday, announced that the Federal Executive Council approved $1.96bn for the construction of a rail line to […]
ASUU Members Chased Away From Hall At COOU
A meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was on Thursday disrupted by armed security guards of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Igbariam in Anambra. The security guards stormed the union’s meeting hall and chased away the lecturers who had converged to deliberate on the ongoing ASUU strike. The lecturers later reconvened […]
UEFA Super Cup: Mixed Reactions As Fans Return To Stadium
The European Super Cup game between Bayern Munich and Sevilla in Budapest passed off smoothly on Thursday. European football governing body UEFA had used it as a trial run to see if the world’s most popular sport can be played in front of live audiences once again. Fans began to arrive hours before the match, […]
EFCC Recovers Over ₦4.16bn From Lottery Companies
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mohammed Umar Abbah, has disclosed that the Commission recovered over ₦4.16 billion from lottery companies, being revenue owed to the government, which they refused to remit. He made the disclosure on September 24, 2020 at the EFCC Headquarters while hosting a delegation from the […]
UEFA Allows 5 Substitutes In Champions League, Intl Matches
UEFA will allow up to five substitutions to be made by teams in all European club and international matches this season, it announced on Thursday, although a decision has yet to be reached for next year’s European Championship. The decision, announced following UEFA’s Executive Committee meeting in Budapest, applies to this season’s Champions League, Europa […]
Premier League Clubs Set To Pull Out Of Carabao Cup
Premier League clubs are currently considering pulling out of the Carabao Cup until EFL players agree to undertake coronavirus tests before matches. Read Also: Cameroon’s World Cup Defender Dies West Ham manager, David Moyes, and two other players were forced off the stadium after their result came back positive during their tie against Hull City. […]
We Only Have 2 Teachers In Our School – Ondo Community
A community in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State on Thursday cried out over the lack of teachers in the community primary school. It was gathered that the school located in Daada an Igbatoro community within the local government had been operating with only two teachers taking pupils from primary one to […]
Buhari In Guinea-Bissau, Pledges Support For Peace, Stability
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday pledged that Nigeria will continue to assist Guinea-Bissau in any way possible, saying ‘a peaceful and prosperous Guinea-Bissau is a win for West Africa and for Africa.’ President Buhari joined the Heads of State and Government of Senegal, Mauritania and Burkina Faso to celebrate the 47th independence anniversary of Guinea Bissau […]
Korean Govt Boosts Nigeria’s Capacity For Response
The Korean Government through its aid agency, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Nigeria on Thursday donated three (3) Smart Walk-through Booth Systems for COVID-19 test sample collection to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), to further enhance national and sub-national efforts in the fight against COVID-19. In collaboration with the NCDC, the booths […]
Kogi Govt Declares 2-Day Mourning For Victims Of Explosion
The Kogi State Government has declared two days of mourning for the 23 victims of Wednesday’s tanker explosion in Felele, Lokoja. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo made the announcement in a statement released in Lokoja on Thursday. The commissioner urged residents of the state to use the two-day mourning period for a sober […]