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Three persons, including an inspector of police, were killed during a mob attack on a police station in Yagba-West LGA of Kogi state. The Kogi police command, in a statement on Thursday, said the incident occurred on Tuesday. According to the police, the mob attack followed robberies at three banks in Odo-Ere […]

Nigeria on Thursday recorded 1,050 cases of COVID-19. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Friday. Ghana has received over 17m COVID-19 vaccine doses, says president Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo says the country has received a total of 17.7 million doses of various COVID-19 vaccines. In his latest nationwide COVID-19 […]

Bode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked Bisi Akande, a former governor of Osun state, to withdraw his recently released autobiography, ‘My Participations’. The book has elicited reactions from political stakeholders, including Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former governor of Osun, and Ayo Adebanjo, acting leader of Afenifere, who have denied […]

Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a former governor of Osun, says one of the appointees of Bisi Akande, his predecessor, confessed that state funds were used for the latter’s 2003 governorship election campaign. Akande was the governor of Osun between 1999 and 2003 on the platform of the defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD). He, however, […]

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says states will clear all outstanding pension liabilities after the removal of fuel subsidy in 2022. The governors’ forum said this at its 36th teleconference meeting on Wednesday. The federal government had said that it would end fuel subsidy by 2022 and replace it with a N5000-a-month transportation grant […]

Major US air carriers have warned that plans to use 5G wireless services could disrupt thousands of flights and cost air passengers $1.6 billion annually in delays. Scott Kirby, chief executive of United Airlines, warned on Wednesday during the U.S. Commerce Committee hearing, adding that the plans to use C-Band spectrum for 5G wireless […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of health workers whose salaries were withheld when they embarked on strike. Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, disclosed this on Thursday while speaking to journalists after a meeting with the president at the state house in Abuja. The development comes months after Buhari […]

Japheth Omojuwa, chief strategist at Alpha Reach, says ‘The Arc of the Possible’, the memoir of Waziri Adio, former executive secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), should be recommended for those in public office. In a series of tweets on Thursday, Omojuwa said the book should be attached to the […]

Aminu Masari, governor of Katsina, has called on north-west governors and other stakeholders to accept their responsibility in fighting banditry in the region. Masari spoke in Abuja 0n Thursday when he led a delegation of the North-Western Governor’s Forum on a condolence visit to Aliyu Wamakko, senator representing Sokoto north. About 23 […]