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The body of a 54-year-old woman, Mrs Philomena Ogadi, has been discovered buried in a shallow grave on a farmland near the Benin-Agbor-Onitsha Expressway in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. The corpse, was exhumed by the police on Saturday, four days after her burial by her abductors despite collecting ransom of over N650,000 from her family. ...
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March, 2021
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2 March
Nigeria receives first batch of COVID-19 vaccines
Nigeria has received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines. The NAFDAC-approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines arrived in the country around noon on Tuesday, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, via an Emirates airline. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, had said on Saturday that Nigeria will receive its first tranche of about 4 million doses of ...
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2 March
BREAKING: Fire guts Nigerian Army headquarters
The Nigerian Army has reported a fire outbreak at its Headquarters complex in Abuja. It attributed the cause of the inferno to faulty electrical installations. According to a statement by the Director Army Public Relations Brigadier General Mohammed Yerima: “Electrical fault sparked a minor fire incident at the Army Headquarters Complex, Abuja, Tuesday morning. “The incident which happened at about ...
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2 March
Zamfara gov breaks the news : 279 abducted school girls released 4.00 a.m, Non raped
“The students arrived Government House, Gusau, at about 4a.m. on Tuesday,” according a dependable source early this Tuesday morning, March 2, 2021. The school girls, whose number have usually been put at 317, had been reported to be released n Sunday but negotaitions with bandits ran into a hitch at the last minute. The governor of Zamfara state has said ...
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2 March
(Opinion): Is reggae music dying or dead?
Reggae is one special kind of music that changed the world. It’s Apostles come in different forms, acts and styles…. Some are highly “spiritual”. Some are very philosophical. Some are very mystical. Some are realists. Some are social crusaders. Some are humanists. Some are activists….Some are nationalists. Some are freedom fighters. Some are preachers. Some are teachers. We can go ...
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2 March
Police arrest 10 alleged criminals in Mushin, Impound 29 motor cycles
Lagos Police over the weekend stormed criminal hideouts in Mushin and arrested three kingpins and seven others just as it impounded 29 motor cycled as part of onslaught against criminals and lawlessness in the State. The three kingpins and the seven suspects whose identity are still being kept under wraps as a result of continuing investigation were picked up in ...
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2 March
North blockade of food supply to South enters day 5
Northern food suppliers, in Nigeria to the Southern part are using marketing of their products as tool of protest, and they mean business. The blockade, enters the fifth day on Tuesday (today) Recall that the cattle and foodstuff dealers under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria on Thursday, last week, stopped supplies to ...
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2 March
South waves aside Foodstuff blockade by North, sees opportunity
The development has been described as an eyed opener, to utilise opportunities the South had in agriculture. Some southern state governments and farmers dismissed the blockade by northern food suppliers, saying it is an opportunity for the South to boost its food production capacity. Ondo state government, amongst others, we learnt is not perturbed by the development as he said ...
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2 March
“North ‘ll suffer most with foodstuff supply blockade to South”
Thinking of market forces analyst on the food blockade as weapon of negotiation is out. It is believed that the blockade will not last long because farmers in the North cannot survive without marketing their produce in the South. The Cross River State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Asu Okang, has also wave aside, the food supply blockade. He ...
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2 March
Sanwo Olu tells Lagosian, don’t panic over food supply blockade
The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotosho, on Monday said the state was not feeling any effect of food shortage. He noted that the government had also not been officially informed of any decision to withdraw supplies to the state. According to him, trailers of foodstuffs have been coming from other parts of the country into the ...
