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  By Olukayode Salako No matter how good a president might think he is, if the North doesn’t want him to succeed, especially in the area of security, it would be hard for him to achieve it. We saw the evidence to this assertion, when other previous presidents were also in power. During the times of almost every president in ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned, the gruesome attack on Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina state, by suspected terrorists, leading to reported deaths and abduction of no fewer than 600 students. The PDP, standing with the entire Katsina people, charged President Muhammadu Buhari, as the commander-in-chief, who promised to lead from the front, to account for the ...

  Agency Report Lagos health commissioner Professor Akin Abayomi, in a statement on Saturday said Sanwo-Olu is in isolation undergoing treatment for coronavirus after his test result returned positive according a report by the News Agency of Nigeria.   “Following Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s exposure to a confirmed case of COVID-19, a PCR test performed yesterday, the 11th of ...

  The 796 new cases is the highest since 745 cases of COVID-19 were reported in June. *NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA  Nigeria on Friday registered 796 new cases, highest single -day COVID-19 infections in 24 hours, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) said on its verified website. The new infections showed an increase of 51 cases over the previous ...

  Fashionstyle Report The Ondo State Security Network Agency, Amotekun, on Wednesday said some herdsmen attacked its operatives on a farm at Osi Community, in Akure North Local Government Area of the state, while the operatives were trying to settle a rift between them and the farmers in the community. The operatives of the agency were said to have moved ...

  Following media report of attack on BBC reporters by popular Catholic priest, Rev. Ejike Mbaka, a spokesman for the parish, Maximus Ngwuoke has revealed that neither the parish of Reverend Mbaka invited the reporters and could not have attacked them as his guests. According to the journalists, Chioma Obianinwa and Nnamdi Agbanelo they were attacked by Mbaka and some ...

  BY IS’HAQ MODIBBO KAWU It was a short post from Isiaq Ajibola, former COO of Media Trust, on the WhatsApp platform of the Northern Media Forum, that drew attention to the passing of Sam Nda-Isaiah, just a few minutes past midnight, today, Saturday, 12th December, 2020. To say that I was stunned, was to understate my emotions! I placed ...

The Edo State Government will on Monday, December 14, 2020 commence recruitment of over 1,400 professionals into the junior, graduate and experienced cadres of the state’s civil service. Edo State Head of Service, Anthony Okungbowa Esq., in a statement, said the recruitment exercise is part of the ongoing transformation of the state’s civil service and a key pillar in Governor ...

  A Nigerian catholic priest, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka and some of his church members  on Wednesday 9 December assaulted two BBC reporters, their driver and two others in Enugu State, South- Eastern Nigeria. The journalists, Chioma Obianinwa , Nnamdi Agbanelo and their driver, Ndubuisi Nwafor, were accompanied by another Catholic Priest, Rev Cajethan Obiekezie and his assitant, Solomon Orakam. ...

  The Aare Onakakanfo (Generalisimo) of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, on Tuesday, said he will never reconcile with former President Olusegun Obasanjo as his guadian angel will not forgive him if he did. Aare Adams, while speaking at a press conference at his Omole residence in Lagos, lambasted Obasanjo for casting aspersion on his character. The media had reported that ...