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  A large number of motorists and commuters are held up in a gridlock caused by a petroleum tanker explosion around Toyota bus-stop inwards Mile 2, along Oshodi/Apapa expressway. As at the time of filing this report, emergency response teams were already on ground. More to come…

  Within the past 24 hours, Nigeria’s count of coronavirus infections has jumped by more than 1,600 new positive samples — the country’s highest single-day count since the index case of the virus was confirmed on February 27, 2020. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the new cases …

Yemisi Edun First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has appointed an acting managing director in the wake of the sex scandal rocking its managing director, Adam Nuru, and his subsequent stepping aside. The new chief executive of the bank is Yemisi Edun. Nuru had volunteered to proceed on leave while the …

The Department of State Services says it is not currently recruiting and therefore cautions  the public against falling into the hands of fraudsters. Dr. Peter Afunanya, Public Relations Officer of the service, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Afunanya said the clarification became necessary following desperate …

Popular Yoruba actress, Mrs Folake Aremu, popularly known as Orisabunmi is dead. The veteran actress, a native of Olla in Kwara State, died at age 60 at her residence in Ibadan, Oyo State. She was said to have died after a brief illness. Born on October 10, 1960, in Ilu …

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says the new electricity tariff increase will not affect low-income areas with lesser energy supply. The commission was reacting to reports of the new increase in tariff from January 1. In a series of Twitter post, the NERC said the tariff for customers on …

Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential task force on COVID-19, says 731 of the 34,418 Batch B members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in 2020, tested positive for coronavirus. Speaking at the briefing of the task force on Tuesday, Mustapha said corps members across the country took COVID-19 …

Hours after the country hit its highest daily count with 1,204 COVID-19 infections, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported a new single-day record of cases with over 1,300 fresh samples confirmed positive. A total of 1,354 new cases were recorded across 20 states and the federal capital …

Lateefa Okunnu, judge of the Lagos state high court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, convicted and sentenced Okey Nwosu, a former managing director, Finbank Plc, to three years imprisonment over N10 billion fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Nwosu alongside Dayo Famuroti, Agnes Ebubedike and Danjuma …

Zenith Bank Plc has announced the death of one of its directors, Prof. Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe. According to a regulatory filing by the lender to the Nigerian Stock Exchange, the late professor joined the bank in 2016 as an independent non-executive director. The statement read in part, “He was a distinguished …