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The Federal Government of Nigeria has named the Itakpe-Warri route railway complex after former President Goodluck Jonathan. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday, July 18, 2020, announced via his official Twitter handle, that “the Federal Government has named the Agbor railway facility and station after former President Goodluck Jonathan.” He tweeted, “Today, we continued test-run of our new …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday released the list of qualified candidates for the forthcoming Edo State Governorship elections. In a statement by the commission 12 out of the 14 governorship candidates registered by the various political parties were male while two female, also only two of the deputy governorship candidates were female. INEC National Commissioner and chairman …

The Ekiti State Government has postponed the reopening date of worship centres earlier scheduled for July 17 to August 14. Services in worship centres including Mosques and Churches had been suspended since March following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Friday, the state Commissioner for Health, Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said the government’s new …

The erstwhile Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, identified as Major General Olusegun Adeniyi, will face a court-martial. And the reason is that a video circulated of him a few months, complaining bitterly about inferior ammunition and wrong intelligence given to troops prosecuting the war on terror in the North-East caused by Boko Haram. Adeniyi was among 886 officers the Army …

Companies like Disney, Google, Microsoft and Apple have continued to recieve criticisms from the United States administration for doing business with China while accusing Hollywood of censoring it’s movies to please the Chinese government. This was disclosed by the US Attorney General, Bill Barr while speaking at a speech in Michigan. Bill said Tech companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and …

As the nation, Nigeria continues its fight against Coronavirus, another 600 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The new COVID-19 cases have increased the numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases in the nation to 35,454. This was disclosed by the NCDC via its verified Twitter handle on Friday. 14,633 patients who recovered …

The Rivers state Commissioner of Police, Joseph Wukan, says he was duly aware of the attempted arrest of the former NDDC Managing Director, Joi Nunieh, at her Port Harcourt home on Thursday, July 16. Recall that Nunieh who is in a running battle with the Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio who she has accused of corruption, was …

The Northern part of Nigeria, is one of the most attacked area of the country, when we talk about issues of insurgency or bandits attack. The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawella, has offered an escape route for bandits in the state, as he wants them to exchange their rifle with two cows as he claimed they need the cows to …

Captured Boko Haram members have sworn an Oath of Allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as a total number of 602 repentant insurgents, dropped renounced their membership to terrorist group. The statement which was issued by the Defence Headquarters, said the 602 repentant members, had undergone the de-radicalization, rehabilitation and re-integration programme of the Operation Safe Corridor, which was …

Nigeria recorded 595 new cases of #COVID-19 on Thursday making total confirmed cases 34,854 with 14,292 recoveries and 769 deaths. The Nigeria Centre for disease control (NCDC), revealed this via twitter were Lagos recorded 156 new cases. Ondo records 95 followed by Rivers with 53 new cases, in Abia 43, in Oyo 38, Enugu 29, Edo 24, FCT 23. Kaduna …