Author: Monsuroh Abdulsemiu

A fire outbreak on Sunday evening destroyed two filling stations worth millions of naira near Boromeo Roundabout in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra. A resident who witnessed the incident said the fire spread to a nearby filling station called Silver and heavy traffic on Awka Road in the city delayed the arrival of firefighters to quench the fire. The other petrol station which was destroyed is Chris-Tee located along Enugu-Onitsha road close to Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha. Confirming the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, Anambra Police Command Spokesman explained that security operatives arrived at the…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) had appointed Augustine Eguavoen as the Super Eagle’s interim coach. This came after the NFF terminated Gernot Rohr’s contract as coach of the Super Eagles. A statement released by Mohammed Sanusi, the general secretary of the NFF on Sunday read in parts; “This is with immediate effect, and follows the termination of the relationship with Franco-German Gernot Rohr, who has been in charge of the three –time African champions for the past 64 months, and is Nigeria’s longest –serving manager,” In the statement, it had been decided after a virtual meeting of the NFF Executive…

The sum of N1.8 billion has been approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for the deployment of regulatory systems in the Nigerian Telecommunications industry to tackle criminal activities. Isa Ali Pantami, the Nigerian Minister of Communications and Digital Economy made this known in a press briefing with State House correspondents after a cabinet meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja The minister noted that “the first memo that was approved by FEC is for the deployment of regulatory systems in the telecommunications industry to be implemented by the NCC.” He further said “the system has…

The Men of the Lagos State Police command has arrested three Dowen College students who were accused of bullying Sylvester Oromoni Junior to death. This was made known in an exclusive chat of Channels TV with Hakeem Odumosu, the Lagos State Commissioner of  Police on Tuesday. During the interview, Hakeem revealed that the three students who Sylvester mentioned before his unfortunate death, are already in their custody and cooperating with security officials to ease the investigation. However, he mentioned that the three students accused of killing Sylvester, are major suspects although he didn’t reveal their names. Speaking further, Hakeem said…

The Vice chancellor of the Kwara State University, Malete, Prof. Mohammed Akanbi (SAN), has announced that the university would be graduating 6,620 students at this year’s convocation. 3,864 students, he said, are for the 2019/2020 session while 2,756 are for the 2020/2021 session. This, according to the Nation Newspaper, was made known during a press conference with journalists in the Malete Moro local government area ahead of the institution’s convocation festivities this weekend. According to him, 96 first degree students would be bagging first-class at this year’s convocation. He added that the school would be graduating 321 students for higher…

The chief of army staff in the Second Republic during the Shehu Shagari presidency, Mohammed Wushishi is dead. This was made known in a statement released by the Niger State Government on saturday’s evening. In the statement,governor Abubakar Bello sympathised with the people of Wushishi Local Government Area, Kontagora Emirate and the entire people of Niger State over the demise of the retired general. Mary Noel-Berje, media aide to the Niger governor, in the statement said the state government is working with his family to make funeral prayer arrangements The governor said the government and people of Niger State are…

Popular Nigerian actress, Tonto Dikeh amid other celebrities has promised justice to Sylvester Oromoni, a late student of Dowen College, Lagos, who allegedly died due to bullying and battering by his classmates. Various Nigerian celebrities like Adesua Etomi-Wellington, Kate Henshaw, Dr. Dipo Awojide, etc are trending the hashtag #justiceforsylvester on Instagram to agitate against the death of Sylvester who according to his parents, he supposed to clock twelve years today. Tonto Dikeh wrote on an Instagram story that “I woke up with so much pain. How do you lose a child in a safe zone and whose birthday is today?.”…

The Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari has received the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, at the State House, Abuja on Wednesday. President Buhari emphasized on people-to-people relations between South Africa and Nigeria, this he did at the opening of the 10th session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) held at Abuja. The presidential media aide, Femi Adesina noted that this would evolve a bond that will be of benefit to both countries and the entire African continent. Muhammad Buhari stressed further that Nigeria is committed to improving a “special relationship’’ with South Africa, which would translate into gains for the…

Security operatives of the Federal Secretariat Abuja have denied unvaccinated civil servants and civil servants without negative PCR access into the premises. This is in accordance with the submission of the chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha at committee briefing on the 15th of November. The Daily Page recalls that the Federal Government had warned civil servants to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 in order to be allowed into public offices. Following the announcement, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria had earlier appealed to the Federal Government to extend the deadline for the…

The Nigeria president, Muhammadu Buhari receives the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, at Aso Rock, the presidential villa, Abuja, today. This is coming hours after the Nigeria Center for Disease control announced the emergence of the new Omicron COVID 19 variant in Nigeria. The new variant which surfaced in Botswana, South Africa has quickly spread to become a global concern. The NCDC confirmed in a statement released earlier today that the new variant was discovered among travellers from South Africa who arrived in Nigeria last week. The Punch newspaper reported that President Muhammad received president Cyril Ragamosa as he arrived…