Denis Idara, the 2019/2020 Miss Nigeria International Pageant titleholder, says her next target is to make Nigeria proud in the Mr and Miss International Africa (MMIA) “The Rebirth Edition 2020”. Idara told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos that her programmes in recent time were cancelled toward necessary preparations for the competition billed for October in Lagos. NAN reports that the MMIA The Rebirth Edition 2020, a Brendance and Crusader (BC)...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday that the total public debt portfolio of the Federal and State Governments as of March 31 stood at N28.63 trillion. The NBS made this known in its Nigerian domestic and foreign debt report released in Abuja. The bureau said that further disaggregation of Nigeria’s total public debt showed that N9.99 trillion which represented 34.89 per cent was external. It stated that the domestic debt was N18.64...
The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has condoled with the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, over the passing of his mother, Janet Hauwa Kukah. Chairman of the forum, Simon Along, who is also Governor of Plateau, described her passing as painful in a condolence message by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Dr Makut Macham on Saturday. Lalong further described the death of the Bishop’s mother as a...
The Lagos State House of Assembly has suspended all legislative activities, for one week, until July 20. The suspension was announced in a statement signed by the Clerk of the Assembly, Mr Azeez Sani on Friday night in Lagos. “All committee meetings, assignments and visit to the Lagos State House of Assembly is hereby suspended. “The suspension takes effect from Monday, July 13 to Sunday, July 19, while legislative activities shall resume on July 20,’’...
Dr Ayuba Musa, the landlord of the property housing the company, GLAM’D Africa, has dismissed Mr Jackson Ude’s claims concerning the ownership of the house. Musa’s reaction was sequel to a social media post by Ude, a New York-based blogger, that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s daughter, Kiki, owns the property which houses her company, GLAM’D Africa. The landlord, in a disclaimer he signed on Friday in Abuja, said the property was never, at any point...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), has reiterated that its recruitment process is completely “Free of Charge” and is being executed in an equitable and transparent manner. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, made this known in a statement in Abuja. Daramola said that information reaching the NAF indicated that some unscrupulous individuals have established fraudulent Facebook and WhatsApp groups. He said this was with the objective of extorting money from...
Nigeria announced 575 new COVID-19 cases in the country within 24 hours, bringing the total infections to 31,323 according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). NCDC said via its official twitter handle that as at Friday, July 10, a total of 20 deaths caused by the coronavirus were recorded in the country. The centre said that no new state had reported a case in the last 24 hours. The NCDC said that till...
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says it will engage Vice President and Chairman, National Economic Council, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to facilitate states’ representation in the implementation committee of Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP). The 36 state governors disclosed this in a communiqué issued on Thursday in Abuja by the NGF Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, after its 12th COVID-19 teleconference meeting. The governors also advocated for the need to revitalise Nigeria’s...
The missing 64-year-old Mayor of South Korean capital Seoul, Park Won Soon, has been found dead, the news agency Yonhap reported on Thursday. His body was found by police in the northern part of the city, the news agency said, citing police. Park had been reported missing earlier by his daughter after saying something that sounded like “last words,” according to the report. Police had conducted a search for the 64-year-old using drones and tracking...
The Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretariat of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Dr Mohammed Kawu has tested positive for COVID-19. Kawu made the disclosure while briefing newsmen at the Asokoro District Hospital, where he is currently receiving treatment, on Thursday in Abuja. According to him, his journey to the isolation center began 12 days ago when he started experiencing feverish conditions. “The feverish condition prompted me to go for COVID-19 test which...
