An unidentified pregnant woman is suspected to have died of Lassa fever at the Intensive Care Unit of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in Cross River State. The woman, who was transferred from the Navy Hospital in Calabar to…
Year: 2018
STRIKE AND PICKETING WILL CONTINUE- UNILORIN NON-TEACHING STAFF WARNS FG
The non-teaching staff of the University of Ilorin, comprising members of the institution’s chapters of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff of Universities and National Association of Academic Technologists, shut the gates of the institution as early as…
HERDSMEN KILLING: 32 TIV PEOPLE KILLED
The Tiv Cultural and Social Association in Taraba State on Monday said no fewer than 32 Tiv people had been killed in separate attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen this year. In a statement issued in Jalingo and signed by the…
2019 ELECTION: PDP DECLARES PRESIDENTIAL TICKET OPEN FOR ALL
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that none of its established organs will anoint a presidential aspirant ahead of the 2019 general election. This is just as the party has rejected what it described as a belated response to…
POLICE DECLARES IBB’S SPOKESMAN WANTED
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has declared Kazeem Afegbua, the media adviser to Babangida wanted over the statement he issued on behalf of former dictator, on Sunday. The IG ordered the arrest of Afegbua in a statement by the…
REMEMBER YOUR CAMPAIGN PROMISES- FARMERS TASK ILORIN SOUTH COUNCIL CHAIR
The President of Kwara Green Plains Farmers Society, an organization of like mind Agricultural entrepreneurs have sent a call to the chairperson of Ilorin South LG Council. in a brief interview with correspondents, he lamented the fact that ‘the farming…
METUH PRODUCED IN COURT ON A STRETCHER
Chief Olisa Metuh, a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, on Monday, appeared on a stretcher before the Federal High Court in Abuja for his ongoing trial in respect of the N400m which he allegedly received fraudulently…
35 INMATES SIT FOR WASSCE IN IKOYI PRISON
A total of 35 inmates of the Ikoyi Prison School, Lagos, is participating in the ongoing January/February West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates. The Controller of Prisons, Lagos State Command, Mr. Tunde Ladipo disclosed this in…
BRING BACK NATURALIZED NIGERIANS DEPORTED TO CAMEROON- FALANA
Activist lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has accused National Security Adviser (NSA) Babagana Monguno of “acting illegally” in the deportation of 52 naturalized Nigerians to Cameroon two weeks ago. He said yesterday in a statement that under the National Security Agencies…
BABANGIDA’S CALL FOR THE EMERGENCE OF A YOUNG PRESIDENT IN 2019
There was confusion on Sunday over two statements purportedly written by a former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, which bordered on the 2019 elections, the herdsmen/farmers’ crisis and other issues plaguing the nation. In an earlier statement titled, ‘Towards a…