Category: News

COVID-19: Violators face jail term as Buhari signs regulations

topnews

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021 which made the use of face masks in public places mandatory among other measures to curtail spread of COVID-19. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, made this known on Wednesday that the President signed the document on Tuesday. Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, said the President signed the document in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 4 of the Quarantine Act, Cap. Q2, Laws…

Read More

Edo Immigration services PRO abducted in church, sold to Fulani kidnappers

topnews

Bridget Esene, the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Edo State Command, has said that she was meant to be killed but her abductors sold her to suspected Fulani herdsmen. Esene, who was released by her abductors on Tuesday, said she suffered at the hands of the kidnappers. She said, “The armed men numbering five trailed me to my church at Ikhueniro near Benin City where I was kidnapped. “I was forced into their car and driven out of the church premises by my abductors who later sold…

Read More

Benue governor tests positive for COVID-19

topnews

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday went into self isolation following his COVID-19 positive status. It was gathered that he tested positive after nine of his aides tested positive for the virus. Ortom spokesman, Terver Akase, had earlier announced that the governor tested positive for COVID-19 In a statement in Makurdi, the CPS said, “The latest result of his (governor Ortom)  COVID-19 test has returned positive. “This follows the test results of most of the governor’s close aides who also returned positive in the last few weeks. “Though…

Read More

Mike Ozekhome, others for DAMA Awards and 10th Anniversary

topnews

The 10th edition of Dama Media Awards is billed for February 18, 2021. The annual award organized by the management of Dama Media Concept is to also celebrate the consistent existence of The Voice Magazine. Notable among dignitaries invited to grace the occasion are Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Governor, Ekiti State, who is going to chair the event, while Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State is to be the guest speaker, who will be speaking on, “Restructuring, the only solution to Nigeria’s crisis”. The Royal fathers expected to grace the occasion…

Read More

Fire razes 70 shops at Shomolu Market in Lagos

topnews

About 70 shops and goods worth millions of naira were destroyed yesterday in an early morning inferno at the Alade Market in Shomolu area of Lagos State. Preliminary investigation showed that the fire, which erupted at 1.05 am, was due to a surge in voltage after power supply was restored to the area. The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the agency responded to distress calls at 1.05 am. “Upon arrival, we commenced fire suppression activities. The agency firefighters alongside the Lagos State…

Read More

Covid-19: FG directs level 12 employees, others to work from home till Febuary 28

topnews

Following the advice of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID -19 issued by the chairman, Boss Mustapha, Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, has directed officers on Grade Level (GL) 12 and below to continue working from home till the end of February. In a circular titled, “Re- Second wave of COVID-19 stay-at-home directive to GL 12 officers and below” and signed by the Director, Press to the HoSF), Abdulganiyu Amin, yesterday in Abuja, Yemi-Esan urged civil servants to always comply with existing safety guidelines.…

Read More

Police sack single female cop for getting pregnant

topnews

‌ The Nigeria Police has sacked a female corporal, Olajide Omolola, for allegedly getting pregnant out of wedlock. Nigerians expressed displeasure over what they described as a discriminatory law and called on rights group to fight for the woman. The police, in a wireless message with reference number CJ:4161/EKS/IY/Vol.2/236, DTO:181330/01/2021, said Omolola was dismissed for getting pregnant while unmarried. The signal originated from the Department of Finance and Administration in Ado Ekiti and was addressed to the Divisional Police Officer at Iye Ekiti, where Omolola was based. The chief financial…

Read More

Insurgency: Buhari appoints new service chiefs

topnews

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally appointed new service chiefs for the country after much pressures from different quarters, faulting their inability to quell the insurgency ravaging the country since 2015. The new service chiefs are Major-General Leo Irabor as Chief of Defence Staff; Major-General I. Attahiru as Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo as Chief of Naval Staff; and Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao as Chief of Air Staff. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement titled, ‘President Buhari…

Read More

Babafemi Ojudu is a liar, I have no business with him -Sunday Igboho

topnews

Sunday Adeyemo, the Yoruba activist known as Sunday Igboho, has Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, the Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to come prove that he has any dealings with him. Ojudu, in a deleted piece he published on his Facebook page on Monday, alleged that opposition politicians contracted Igboho to disrupt the 2009 Rerun Governorship Election in Ekiti State. Ojudu had claimed he and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, met with Igboho to shelve the plan and the latter…

Read More

22 year-old lady confesses: “I sold my day-old baby to pastor for N10,000”

topnews

Seun Oladayo, a 22 year-old woman who was arrested by the security outfit, Amotekun, in Ondo West council area of the state for selling her day-old baby for N10,000 to a pastor in Ondo state, has explained the reason for her action. She confessed that she sold the baby because she fears she would not be able to cater for him since the father left her the day he was told that she was pregnant. Seun was said to have cut the umbilical cord of the baby after delivery so…

Read More