The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu has said no state in Nigeria is free from the pandemic called COVID-19. Ihekweazu admitted this at the presidential task force briefing on Monday. According to the NCDC boss, states need to boost up testing to discover people with the virus that are […]
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Governor Emmanuel Udom of the state of Akwa ibom , has signed the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Law 2020, which gives powers to judges to hand down life imprisonment to anyone convicted of rape in in the state. Mrs Glory Edet, the state’s commissioner for agriculture and women affairs, said the bill is aimed at […]
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One of the governorship candidates of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has emerged winner of the party’s direct primary conducted on Monday. Chairman of the Edo State APC Primary Election Committee, Hope Uzodinma, declared Ize-Iyamu winner of the election after collating the results turned in by the returning officers […]
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Oba Market in Benin, Edo State, was razed by fire in the early hours of today, according to reports. Kokomansion understands that incident which began in the early hours of Monday. The fire, which burnt almost all the massive market, according to witnesses, started around 12:05 am and raged till 6am before it was put […]
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Mr Bolaji Tunji, the media aide to the former Oyo state governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has dispelled rumours making the rounds that his principal has died. Rumours have earlier made rounds on the new media that the acting chairman of the ruling APC died of Coronavirus. But in a terse Facebook post on Thursday night, Mr […]
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Apostle Eugene Ogu, a member of the National Security Committee of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria PFN, has upbraided President Muhammadu Buhari for standing aloof in the face of the crisis currently rocking the ruling All Progressive Party (APC). Apostle Ogu, who is also a former Chairman of the PFN in Rivers State, while speaking with […]
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A female undergraduate of the Federal University of Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State, identified as Faderera Oloyede has been found dead in an apartment belonging to her boyfriend, whose name is Ayo Maliki, in Osun State. According to SaharaReporters, the deceased was found on Tuesday inside the room in the Koko area of Iree in Osun. […]
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The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has banned non-travellers from coming into the airports, as part of the new protocols ahead of the resumption of commercial flights in the country. FAAN, through its official Twitter on Wednesday, advised persons coming to pick up arriving passengers to remain in their cars until travellers exit airports’ entrances. […]
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The Edo state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is afraid of educated people because “he did not go to school”. Obaseki who had recently dumped the APC said this, while speaking with state house correspondents on Tuesday. The Governor, left the party after his disqualification […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, had on Tuesday, announced the admission cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Kokomansion understands that the JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, at the 20th Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria which held in Abuja disclosed that cut off mark for universities was […]
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