An Igbo socio-political group with the name World Igbo Peoples Assembly, (WIPAS), has requested President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government to appoint an Igbo man as the next Inspector General of Police, IGP. This is as the tenure of the incumbent IGP, Mohammed Adamu comes to an end gradually. The group also lauded the appointment of […]
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The immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai (Rtd) has claimed he left the Nigerian Army better than he met. Buratai made this statement in his valedictory speech during the Pulling Out Parade by the Nigerian Army on Friday in Abuja. He said that the army under his watch had achieved tremendous feat […]
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Indian manufacturers have rebranded the opioid Tramadol to Tafrodol to evade detection by customs officials at ports and borders in Nigeria, a report by Enactafrica has revealed. While the name change makes the drug look like Tramadol, Tafrodol contains two ingredients that should not be combined and can reportedly cause respiratory infection, coma and even […]
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A former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, says President Muhammadu Buhari will not hand over power to a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, because the political romance between the two is over. According to Lamido Buhari was used by the southwesterners to take power from the ruling party in 2015 and […]
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The President, Maj Gen Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd) has written a letter to the Senate for the confirmation of the appointment of the new Service Chiefs. Buhari in the confirmation letter dated January 27, 2021 and addressed to the President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, requested for Senate confirmation of the appointment of Major General […]
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Some of the remaining Chibok girls abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok local government area of Borno State, northeast Nigeria have escaped from their abductors. According to Dailypost, they escaped yesterday following attacks on some of the hideouts of the Boko Haram inside the Sambisa forest. Residents of Chibok local government were […]
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The Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NCDC hss recorded a total of 864 new cases of the novel Coronavirus infection. Accordinv to NCDC the confirmed cases are in, FCT-129, Anambra-87, Rivers-82, Benue-80 Oyo-76 Plateau-61 Kaduna-54 Delta-51 Nasarawa-38 Kwara-36 Edo-32 Katsina-26 Kano-24 Taraba-18 Ogun-14 Sokoto-11 Gombe-10 Jigawa-7 Akwa Ibom-6 Cross River-6 Zamfara-5 Bauchi-5 Osun-4 Ekiti-2 With […]
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Father to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State is dead. Sir Arthur Okorie Okowa was according to reports born in 1932. Deputy Senate President Senator, Ovie Omo-Agege sent condolences through his spokesman, Yomi Odunuga. Omo-Agege noted that the deceased meant a lot to the people of Owa-Alero in Ika North East Local Government Area. The […]
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The new Chief of Army Staff, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru,, has taken over the mantle of leadership of the Nigerian Army in an elaborate handing over ceremony by his predecessor, Tukur Buratai, in Abuja on Thursday. President Muhammadu Buhari had, on Tuesday, announced the appointment of Attahiru alongside other service chiefs. In line with the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021 which made the use of face masks in public places mandatory among other measures to curtail further spread of COVID-19. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, disclosed to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that the President signed the […]
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