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Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 599 cases of COVID-19. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Wednesday. Canadian province lets COVID positive essential workers continue working Quebec, one of Canada’s most populous provinces, said it has “no choice” but to allow COVID-19 positive essential workers to continue working in a bid to […]

Rochas Okorocha, senator representing Imo west, has accused Hope Uzodimma, governor of the state, of ordering the arrest of Uche Nwosu. On Sunday, Uche Nwosu, former governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) and son-in-law of Okorocha, was arrested during a church service in Imo. Although Nwosu was released from custody hours after […]

The presidency says the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to reject the electoral act amendment bill is to protect Nigerians. According to the presidency, the proposed amendments “entail significant legal, financial, economic and security consequences”. In a statement on Tuesday, Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, said the bill did not seek to enhance […]

Aminu Masari, governor of Katsina, says the periodic rotation of power from one region to another will help to make the country’s federalism stronger. Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, there has been clamour for a power shift to the southern part of the country. Speaking at a media parley in Katsina […]

Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) says ex-President Yahya Jammeh is responsible for the killing of West African migrants, including nine Nigerians. Jammeh, who has lived in exile in Equatorial Guinea since his departure from the Gambia in January 2017, was accused of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, torture, and arbitrary […]

Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, has celebrated Christmas with Mnenge Mtenave, his former boss, and other commercial bus drivers whom he worked with at Gboko Motor Park in the state.  Mtenave was a commercial vehicle driver in the 1980s whom Ortom worked with as a conductor. The celebration reportedly took place at […]

Osita Chidoka, former minister of aviation, says claims that former President Goodluck Jonathan left ‘almost empty treasury’ was not supported by facts.  Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, had claimed that the funds left by Jonathan were not sufficient to last the new government for three weeks.  Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide, had dismissed […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says the country will not make progress if citizens sacrifice state for tribe. In a letter on Tuesday and addressed to Edwin Clark, Ijaw leader, Obasanjo said tribal allegiance must be suppressed for a state to emerge. The former president was responding to comments credited to the Ijaw […]