No fewer than 50 bandits on Saturday morningreportedly attacked Mazoji Village under Matazu Local Government Area of Katsina State, killing the traditional ruler of the community. This comes barely three weeks after the murder of the district head of Yantumaki in Danmusa Local Government, Alhaji Maidabino, by bandits. A source told SaharaReporters that the bandits carried out the attack on Mazoji Village around 2am and operated for several hours before killing the traditional leader. The bandits also reportedly set ablaze five motorcycles during the attack, while they rustled unspecified number of cows. The source lamented that security operatives were yet to arrive the…
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The Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja is wearing a new look after the sports ministry fixed several of the facilities inside the country’s number one stadium, Saturday PUNCH reports. Formerly known as the National Stadium, Abuja, it was renamed after Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, last year. Saturday PUNCH had reported that the stadium, which was built at a whopping $360m to host the African Games in 2003, had deteriorated while the environment looked unkempt and rough with grasses growing all over the walkways and parking lot. Last week, Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare,…
The Nigerian Medical Association in Rivers State has lamented the lack of Personal Protective Equipment for their members in frontline duty in the fight against COVID-19 in the state. The association also disclosed that 22 of its members, and 60 other health workers in the state, had tested positive for coronavirus, calling on the state to urgently increase the hazard allowance for doctors under the state government employment. The chairperson of the state’s branch of the NMA, Dr Obelebra Adebiyi, spoke in Port Harcourt on Friday with journalists on the challenges facing health workers in the state amid the pandemic.…
Nigeria’s coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, on Friday, increased to 15,181 as 627 new infections were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The NCDC disclosed this on its verified Twitter handle on Wednesday night. it also said that 229 of the new infections were recorded in Lagos. “627 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria Lagos-229 FCT-65 Abia-54 Borno-42 Oyo-35 Rivers-28 Edo-28 Gombe-27 Ogun-21 Plateau-18 Delta-18 Bauchi-10 Kaduna-10 Benue-9 Ondo-8 Kwara-6 Nasarawa-4 Enugu-4 Sokoto-3 Niger-3 Kebbi-3 Yobe-1 Kano-1.” https://twitter.com/NCDCgov/status/1271574010871058434?s=20
The Lagos state government has discharged 90 more former COVID-19 patients from its isolation centres after they tested negative twice for the virus. Those discharged included 30 females and 60 males. The patients; 28 from Onikan, 9 from Eti-Osa (LandMark), 10 from Agidingbi, 5 from Gbagada, 2 from First Cardiology, 10 from Lekki, and 26 from Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Isolation Centres were discharged on Friday, June 12, 2020. According to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu who disclosed the development, this brings the number of patients successfully managed and discharged from Lagos isolation facilities to 1137. He further stated that as…
Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki has vowed not to appeal his disqualification from the governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) slated for June 22. The Governor, in a statement by his media aide, Crusoe Osagie, said it was futile appealing when the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole has allegedly orchestrated the move from the beginning. While calling on his supporters to be calm, he urged them to wait for further directives. “We have watched the mockery of democratic process, which Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, is administering and superintending over in our great party the All Progressives Congress (APC). It has been…
The APC screening committee has disqualified Edo Govermor Godwin Obaseki after screening him earlier on. Details shortly…
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2016 governorship election in Ondo State, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, has described the call for zoning of governorship position to a particular zone as undemocratic. Jegede who is also contesting for the governorship position in the forthcoming governorship election in the state stated this in Akure, Ondo State capital, said capability should be placed above zoning to ensure the development of the society. According to him, the PDP would not recognize zoning in the forthcoming governorship election as being clamoured by some of the aspirants in the state. He, however, expressed…
By Balogun Damilola Oluyemi Fasipe, a Youth Advocate of Ondo State , made it known to the society via his Twitter handle about the cases of COVID19 that was confirmed today in Ondo State. https://twitter.com/YemieFASH/status/1271432067184766977?s=19 Ondo State has recorded 8 new cases of #COVID19 today, 12th June 2020. We now have a total of 63 confirmed cases (32 active cases, 22 discharged, and 9 death). Details Shortly…..
SEARCH Leadership Nigeria Newspaper POLITICS Ondo Guber: APC Group Raise Objection Against Akeredolu’s 2nd Bid Published 5 seconds agoon June 12, 2020 By ANDREW ESSIEN A group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) known as Ondo APC Mandate Group (OAMG) has tasked the party’s leadership against allowing the incumbent governor of the state, Rotimi Akeredolu, to emerge as the party’s candidate at the polls. This, they said was because the party lost the 2019 presidential election in the state, alleging that the governor was responsible for that. The group also threatened to work against APC if the party eventually give…