With an estimated population of over 200 million people, representing 2.5% of the global population, Nigeria is a readymade market for food and beverage related business. Buttressing this is the popular Nigerian saying that ‘you can’t do food business and run at loss, especially in commercial nerve cities like Lagos …
Read More »CJN, Tanko Muhammad contracts COVID-19, flown to Dubai
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad has tested positive for COVID-19. According to The Nation, the CJN is presently in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, receiving treatment. A member of the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa disclosed this at the unveiling of the national headquarters of the Muslim …
Read More »NCC orders telcos to block all SIMs without NINs
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has given telecommunications operators in the country two weeks within which they should block SIM Cards that are not registered with the National Identity Numbers, NIN. In a statement on Tuesday, the NCC Director of Public Affairs of the NCC, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, disclosed …
Read More »Buhari sacks Pondei-led NDDC Interim Management Committee
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday sacked the Prof Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei-led Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, announced the development in a statement on Saturday night. He said the president also approved Effiong Awa, acting executive director of finance and administration …
Read More »Sanwo-Olu Tests Positive For Covid-19, Undergoes Treatment
Following Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu ‘s exposure to a confirmed case of COVID-19, a PCR test performed yesterday the 11th of December has confirmed that he has indeed been infected with the virus which is supported by mild symptoms and fatigue typical of a mild case of COVID. …
Read More »Pastor Adeboye assured me that I’ll be re-elected – Obaseki
Obaseki Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state, says Enoch Adeboye, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), assured him of his victory in the September 19 governorship election. Obaseki, who ran under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had defeated Osagie Ize-Iyamu, his All Progressives Congress …
Read More »BREAKING: Sanwo-Olu goes into isolation as close aide tests positive for COVID-19
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, has gone into self-isolation following the infection of one of his close aides with coronavirus (COVID-19). Akin Abayomi, commissioner for health, who broke the news on Friday, said other members of the governor’s team will undergo COVID-19 test. “They will be tested by the …
Read More »Nigeria to receive 20m doses of COVID-19 vaccine, says FG
The federal government says it has put in place the machinery for receiving 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in early 2021. Faisal Shuaib, executive secretary, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, broke the news at the presidential task force on COVID-19 media briefing in Abuja on Thursday. He said …
Read More »Nigerian Ambassador to U.S., Sylvanus Nsofor, is dead
Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, is dead. He reportedly died Thursday night at 85. Nsofor, a retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017. Born on March 17, 1935, in Oguta, Imo State, Nsofor …
Read More »Insecurity: Buhari to Address National Assembly Thursday
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday address a joint session of the National Assembly on efforts being made by his administration to address the security challenges currently bedevilling the country. This was disclosed by the President’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, via a message she posted on her …
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