Abuja Property Owner Dismisses Allegation Against VP’s Daughter

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...

Daramola Says, “Beware of Fraudsters” NAF Recruitment is Free

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...

DAILY UPDATES: Nigeria Announces 575 New Cases of COVID-19, Total Hits 31,323

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...

Governors to Meet Osinbajo on Economic Sustainability Plan Implementation

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...

Missing Seoul Mayor Found Dead

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...

FCTA Health Secretary Tests Positive for COVID-19

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...

WHO Announces Independent Evaluation of Global COVID-19 Response

Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus,  the Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday announced the initiation of an Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ghebreyesus announced this at a news conference at the WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the decision to initiate IPPR was reached at the historic 73rd World Health Assembly in May. Member states adopted a...

Buhari Signs Revised 2020 Budget Friday – Presidential Aide

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday sign into law the revised 2020 budget passed by the National Assembly in June. The Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashr Ahmad, confirmed this on his twitter handle in Abuja on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two chambers of the National Assembly, Senate and House of Representatives, had on June 10 and June 11 respectively passed the revised 2020 budget of N10,805,544,664,642....

Nigerians in Indonesia Ask Chidoka to Intervene, Accuse Embassy of Abandonment

By Ikechukwu Okafor Following alleged extortion and discrimination targeted at citizens, Nigerians in Indonesia have appealed to the former Minister of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka to intervene in issues affecting them in the country. The immigrants had accused the country’s immigration and police officers of targeted raids and harassment, which they said led to the deaths of some of their compatriots, the last being the case of a 41-year-old Nigerian man who fell from a...

Robbers Attack TVC, NTA Correspondents in Nasarawa

Armed robbers on Thursday attacked Mr Godwin Agwam, Nasarawa State Correspondent of Television Continental (TVC) and Mrs. Victoria Ojito of Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in their residence at Sabon-Gari, Lafia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the robbers also attacked the Nasarawa State Director of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mrs Priscilla Gondo-Alour, during the operation in the area. Agwam told NAN that the robbers stormed their compound at about 2:00 a.m., forced...

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