More than twenty Nigerian soldiers lost their lives today, July 8, 2020 to fighters of the Boko Haram. The incident occurred when a convoy of the soldiers on the Damboa/Maiduguri Road in Nigeria’s Borno State ran into a well laid ambush by the terrorist Boko Haram fighters. More details... Read more
Ou MaguPresident Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly suspended the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, according to Nigeria’s The PUNCH newspaper. Earlier on, the Nigerian president had put in motion, a presidential panel headed by Justice Ayo Salami to probe the various allegations leveled... Read more
The wife of Benue State Governor, Eunice Ortom has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a statement she personally signed on Friday night, Mrs Ortom confirmed that tests conducted on her came out positive. She also noted that her son and some unnamed staff were equally infected... Read more
The Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. Dave Umahi, and some of his close aides have tested positive for COVID-19. Though the Governor and the affected aides are asymptomatic, that is showing no symptoms yet, they have since self-isolated in line with the COVID-19 Protocols by the Nigeria Centre for... Read more
Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), a Kwara-based Civil Society Organization (CSO) known for its #FollowKwaraMoney activities, has requested the Kwara State Government to provide financial and technical details on how public funds have been spent by the present administration on education, road and water projects in the last one year.... Read more
The Private Sector led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has donated a 150-bed fully equipped isolation facility with medical equipment worth millions of Naira to the Lagos State Government, to provide support in the fight against the virus within the state. Speaking at the commissioning of the Yaba Isolation centre,... Read more
Berkley Jones Ike first appeared on the Nigerian music scene in the mid-1960s, as the drummer in the Port Harcourt-based teen pop group The Figures. At the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970, he signed on as lead guitarist in the upstart rock n’ soul band The... Read more
The Bayelsa government has taken steps to end ongoing strike by Resident Doctors at Bayelsa government owned Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH) Okolobiri. The doctors said they have yet to resume from the indefinite strike called off on Sunday by the national body over several outstanding issue... Read more
The Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, says policies are in the pipeline to improve the quality of training and certification, as well as remuneration for the country’s seafarers. Jamoh stated this in Lagos during a webinar hosted by NIMASA to mark the... Read more
There is palpable anger in Obudi Agwa community in the Oguta Local Council area of Imo State following the killing of an indigene, Mr Ozoemena Iriaka by marauding Fulani herdsmen who invaded farmlands in the community. Sources told Africanewscircle.com that the victim who had gone to his farm in... Read more
