The hurdles on the path to contesting in the primary election and winning the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the governorship election in Ondo State by Agboola Ajayi, the embattled Deputy Governor of the State seem to be unending. After surviving the Yakubu Dogara-led screening alongside seven other aspirants, Mr Ajayi has been accused of conniving with the acting Chairman of the PDP in the State, Clement Faboyede, to change the list...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has disclosed more details regarding the death of Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, 24, who died last week in a road accident at the Air Force Base in Kaduna. In a briefing, in Abuja, the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, said that there were three people in the car and that the driver, Mr Nehemiah Adejoh, has no driver’s...

The Government of Ekiti State has suspended the celebration of traditional festivals to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The coordinator of the State’s COVID-19 Task Force Response Team, Bolaji Aluko announced that traditional rulers had been instructed to suspend indefinitely local festivals in their domain, the Nation reports. Aluko said that the decision was prompted by the impossibility to practice physical distancing if the celebrations were allowed to hold. “Consequently, the wise course is to...