In view of the growing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic with a total of 27 identified cases as at Sunday, the Nigerian opposition under the aegis of the Coalition of United political Parties (CUPP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rise up to his responsibilities and be proactive. In a statement signed by the […]
…Says $2m required for large scale production Chief Executive Officer of Bioresources Development Group, Professor Maurice M. Iwu, has assured Nigerians and the world at large that his plant-based medicine for the treatment of COVID-19, also known as Coronavirus, may be available for use within the next few weeks, without compromising safety or regulatory requirements. […]
Following months of running from the law, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has finally arrested the suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Ekoi Obono-Obla. Obono-Obla’s arrest by operatives of the Commission Friday, in Abuja, comes after he was declared wanted […]
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In most parts of the world, it feels like the world has come to, or is coming to, an end. Routines have been displaced. Familiar reality has been ruptured. Even habitual perceptions of the world around us are being disrupted. And people are gripped by immobilizing panic and anxiety. […]
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Anambra chapter has again lamented the incessant killings of innocent citizens in the country by suspected herdsmen. The group asserted that as far as most Nigerians were concerned, the menace of herdsmen is worse than the dreaded coronavirus ravaging the entire globe, regretting that Christians were the worst hit. […]
The Niger State Government has refuted an online publication claiming that Niger state now confirmed case of COVID-19 in the state. According to a press statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mary Noel Berje, the said publication was actually referring to the first case of COVID 19 confirmed in Niger Republic […]
…The Paschal Obi connection While the Imo state Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts continues its investigations into contracts awarded between June 2011 and May 2019, there are emerging documents that may hold former Governor Rochas Okorocha solely accountable for the strings of contract infractions under his tenure. Our correspondent has obtained, from impeccable Government […]
…11 Northern States yet to domesticate Child’s Rights Act Concerned stakeholders on child and women rights have voiced their concerns over the poor commitment of government, particularly the state government in Northern Nigeria to protecting the rights of children despite what they describe as an increase in cases of violence and abuse against children. This […]
The Principal of Bethlehem High School Abule Ado, Rev. Sr. Henrietta Alokha may have given her life in exchange for those of her pupils who she frantically endeavored to save before losing her own life in the razed school building. Bethlehem High School Abule Ado was among the buildings affected in the petrol pipeline explosion […]
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Governor Abdullahi “Gandollar” Ganduje is no doubt a contemptibly philistine monster of avarice and debauchery who dethroned Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano because he couldn’t stomach the former emir’s disapproval of the electoral fraud that brought him to power. There is also no doubt that Sanusi’s […]
