A total of nine hundred and ninety-nine, 999, new cases of COVID-19 infections have been recorded in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced the figure on Tuesday night in a tweet via its official Twitter handle. NCDC said FCT and Lagos recorded 416 and 324 cases, respectively, while Kaduna State followed with 68 cases. Nigeria now has a total of 79,789 confirmed cases and 1,231 deaths. The tweet reads, “999 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; FCT-416 Lagos-324 Kaduna-68 Plateau-42 Kwara-32 Kano-24 Gombe-14 Sokoto-12 Yobe-12 Akwa Ibom-11 Bayelsa-10 Rivers-7 Bauchi-7 Ogun-6 Oyo-5 Edo-4 Taraba-4 Jigawa-1 79,789 confirmed 68,879 discharged…
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Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola yesterday signed the 2021 Appropriation Bill into Law. The budget size is about N109billion. He said 2021 would witness a new phase of massive transformation that would take the state to a higher level. The governor said the budget would offer greater hope of job opportunities; improved welfare for all; human, capital and massive infrastructure development than the previous year. Signing the Appropriation Bill in his office, Oyetola said the budget would perform better than that of 2020, which recorded over 90 per cent performance despite COVID-19 lockdown and the EndSARS protest. He said his…
Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Tuesday, visited headquarters of 151 battalion at Banki junction in Bama, and he announced a Christmas package for each of the over 700 soldiers and their officers, for being undefeated by Boko Haram. Zulum on arrival went into a closed-door meeting with the commander of the 21 Special Armoured Brigades, Brig. Gen Waheed Shaibu and commanding officer of the 151 Battalion, Major A. A Umar, after which he addressed the troops. “Based on fairness, I treat everyone or group on their merit. While we have challenges in some areas, we have successes in others,…
A 300 level student of Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, Gbenga Favour Olaoye Akanbi has reportedly poisoned himself to death having been duped to the tune of N300M in a Forex deal. A source in Ilorin told Vanguard that the sad incident happened in Lagos. Vanguard reliably gathered that Gbenga aged 19, allegedly collected the N300 million from his ring of nine friends with whom he was involved in the Forex deal. Trouble reportedly started for the deceased when the returns from the N300 million refused to come at the expected time. Vanguard
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last governorship election in Ondo State, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, has expressed the assurance that he would become the governor of the state. Jegede, who lost October 10, 2020, Governorship Election to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu said all evidence before the election petition tribunal was enough to send the All Progressives Congress’ government away from the Alagbaka Government House. He added that the APC was already jittery about losing in the court. Jegede stated this on Tuesday in Akure, the state capital, during the inauguration of the newly built party secretariat. The Oyo…
The Lagos State Government has warned residents that failure to wear a mask in public could land them in prison. The state government said this in a tweet on Tuesday. According to the government, failure to wear a mask in public contravenes the Lagos State Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Regulations or Criminal Laws of Lagos State. The tweet read, “Did you know? Failure to wear a face mask in public or breach of any COVID-19 regulations, you can be prosecuted under the Lagos State Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Regulations or Criminal Laws of Lagos State and upon conviction liable to imprisonment up…
President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the mandate of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 until March 2021. Buhari’s decision has been taken because of the spread of a second wave of the Coronavirus. The President made this known when he received members of the PTF, who were in the State House to submit the end of the year 2020 report to him. According to him, Nigeria cannot afford to lose the gains of the past nine months in the fight against the pandemic. Details later…. Daily Post
A 17-year-old boy has died in Ondo State after taking a psychotropic substance popularly known on the streets as ‘colorado’. The boy identified as Joshua, who took the hard drug over the weekend, gave up the ghost after being in coma for two days. According to sources, the deceased who was residing in Oba-Ile, Akure South Local Government Area if the State where the incident happened, took some portion of the substance from his friends who were already in the habit of taking hard drugs. Following his weird behaviour within minutes of taking ‘colorado’, his friends were said to have…
An Abuja based philantropist, Adewole Ayodeji, on Tuesday, donated food and cash gifts to over 100 widows and physically challenged people in Akure, Ondo state. The items were given to beneficiaries at an event organised to touch the lives of widows, the lives of the less privileged and physically challenged living in the state capital. Appreciating the lofty idea, the state commissioner for land and infrastructure, Mr Saka Yusuf Ogunleye described the donor Mr Ayodeji Adewole as a friend of the masses and staunch supporter of the Akeredolu’s administration. According to the Commissioner, “Ayodeji is one of us in Akure,…
The Federal Controller of Works Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola on Tuesday announced a 72-hour total closure of the Third Mainland Bridge to cast concrete on thee expansion joints. Popoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the shutdown will take effect from midnight on Saturday to midnight on Tuesday. He added that construction works had reached the stage for casting concrete on additional three expansion joints. “There is going to be total closure of Third Mainland Bridge in order to allow for the casting of three number expansion joints on the Island Bound lane ” The effective…