Gunmen have attacked a wedding party in a Kaduna State community, killing 21 persons and leaving over 30 others injured. The heavily-armed assailants stormed Kukum Daji community in Kaura Local Government Area of the state and opened fire on the wedding guests. Nineteen persons reportedly died instantly, while two... Read more
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state, Monday announced the sack of more than 1,000 aides for non-performance. Those affected include technical assistants (TAs), senior technical assistants (STAs) and executive assistants (EAs) to the governor. The governor disclosed this during the swearing-in of three caretaker chairmen of Ikwo, Afikpo North... Read more
The acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, went into a fit and collapsed early Monday afternoon, July 20, 2020, during a public hearing of Nigeria’s House of Representatives Committee on the NDDC. The hearing is ongoing over allegations and counter allegations of... Read more
Nigeria’s former finance and economy minister and candidate for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has stressed the need for the organisation to elect a credible candidate based on merit. She spoke in Geneva on Wednesday while answering questions from newsmen at... Read more
The Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) says it has not abandoned construction of the 200 bed capacity Emergency/Infectious Diseases hospital aimed at strengthening the fight against COVID-19. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)-Agip Joint Venture, on May 2, 2020 announced the construction of a 200-bed capacity infectious diseases hospital... Read more
DETECTIVES are hunting for a suspect in the gruesome murder of Fahim Saleh, the Chief Executive Officer of Lagos-based motorcycle-hailing company, Gokada, in New York on Tuesday. The decapitated and dismembered body of Saleh, 33, was found in his luxury Manhattan apartment following an alarm raised by his distraught... Read more
The apex Igbo socio-cultural Organisation, Ohaneze Ndi Igbo and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by Nnamdi Kanu on Tuesday, agreed to jettison any misunderstanding between the two groups and work together in harmony in the interest of the Igbo people. The two groups had been at odds... Read more
Professor Egbu will return to Leeds, a city in which he studied and taught, to begin his new role on 1 November 2020. He will take over from Professor Margaret A House OBE who will step down after seven years as Vice-Chancellor. Professor Egbu said: “I am honoured to... Read more
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has approved new postings/deployment and appointments of 37 Generals and five Colonels to different formations and units in his effort to rekindle the spirit of professionalism in the Nigerian Army (NA). The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed... Read more
Twenty-five-year-old Victoria Okocha gave a chilling account of how she was abducted by suspected herdsmen in Isa-Ogwashi-Uku area of Delta state, gang-raped and forced to drink another victim’s blood as water, while in her captors’ den. Okocha left her home town in Ubulu-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government of the... Read more
