A cross-section of students in Kwara have appealed to the Federal Government to reopen schools despite the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The students, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews in Ilorin on Sunday, expressed their frustration for sitting home over a long period. NAN reports that the federal government had in March announced the closure of schools, churches, mosques and events centres as well as banning social...
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige says there will be consequences if the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) refuse government’s overture to return to the negotiating table. Ngige disclosed this on Sunday in a statement signed by his media aide, Emmanuel Nzomiwu, in Enugu. The statement said Ngige spoke in his hometown Alor, Anambra, where he donated palliative worth N15 million to vulnerable households to cushion COVID-19 effects. He said that the...
A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. James Ahanaonu, of the Holy Spirit Parish Onireke, Lagos, on Sunday urged Nigerians to pray for God’s healing of the land against the ravaging coronavirus pandemic. Ahanaonu, an Associate priest, made the call in a virtual Mass celebration in Lagos to mark the 2020 Feast of the Pentecost. He said that there was no better time to request for God’s healing of the land than this period. He noted that...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the electoral positions contested in the Local Government Council polls held on May 30 in Benue. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the elections were conducted in 23 local government councils across 276 council wards of the state. The elections, which were adjudged by a team of election observers led by Ibrahim Sheka from Kano, as having low turn out, featured five political parties. The five...
Following allegations by Diran Odeyemi, the Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee in Ekiti State that Governor Kayode Fayemi had sold the governors lodge in Abuja and got the government to buy a property that belongs to him in order to be converted to a governor’s lodge, the governor’s team has fired back at the opposition PDP. Governor Fayemi’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications, Segun Dipe, in a statement denied the...
The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Kayode Popoola, on Sunday said the government had begun a “systematic maintenance of all bridges in Lagos’’ to ensure smooth rides and safety. Popoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone that government had a schedule to fix all bridges in Lagos State in batches this year as funds were made available. “We have plans for maintenance of all bridges in Lagos state this year,...
About 50 journalists working with Microsoft are set to lose their jobs, as the American multinational tech giant reportedly moves to replace them with robots. According to local media reports, those affected are contract employees working as curators for the company’s news website, MSN. They perform functions such as selection of stories, headlines, pictures and other contents from news organisations for the MSN site. The Seattle Times quoted unidentified insiders as saying the company has...
The U.S. President, Donald Trump, says American astronauts would return to the moon by 2024. Speaking after the successful launched of the country’s first human spaceflight in nine years, Trump said the aim was to “establish a permanent presence in space and a launching pad to Mars’’. “The first woman on the Moon will be an American woman and the first nation to land on Mars will be the United States of America. “Space travel...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Saturday announced the highest daily figure of confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria, with 553 new infections recorded. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 9, 855. The NCDC, on its official twitter handle said that as of May 30, 12 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that 2,856 patients have been treated and discharged. The NCDC data showed...
The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai has added a fresh twist to the silence between him and the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. At a Webinar in commemoration of the 63rd birthday of the Minister of Interior and former Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, El-Rufai says Aregbesola remains his man anytime any day but that Tinubu is not his man. According to Malam El-Rufai, this is due to...
