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

Nigeria’s National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has given approved for a herbal remedy for the treatment of the symptoms associated with the COVID-19 disease. This was announced by the Director of the Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories, Ewu, Edo State, Rev. Fr. Anslem Adodo,... Read more

STATEMENT: NAFDAC is currently processing twenty one (21) herbal medicinal products for “Safe to use” or Listing status. Many of the applicants claim that their products are immune boosters and anti-infectives useful for relief of symptoms that could be associated with COVID-19. However, no clinical study has been done... Read more