27 year old nurse dies after AstraZeneca vaccination

A nurse was reportedly dead on Friday after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in Georgia’s southwestern city of Akhaltsikhe on Thursday. The 27-year-old nurse, Megi Bakradze, who developed an alleged anaphylactic…

PHOTOS: Police parade suspects for attempting to murder three Children in Anambra

Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Awka The Anambra state police command have paraded suspects for attempting to murder three children at 3-3 area Onitsha Anambra. Haruna Mohammed, the state’s police public relations…

No going back on planned protest against fuel price hike – TUC

The Trade Union Congress on Saturday says it will not go back on its decision to embark on a protest on Tuesday against the increase in the prices of fuel…

Nsukka Catholic Bishop calls for varsities re-opening

Ibe Pascal Arogorn The Catholic bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Most Rev. Prof. Godfrey Igwebuike Onah, has joined the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS to call for the re-opening of…

BREAKING many People to resign at Daily Trust Newspaper over ‘N1500 Pay As Published’ Policy

Ibe Pascal Arogorn In a protest against the management of Daily Trust Newspaper, Weekend Editor, Lawal Danjuma, Sokoto Bureau Chief, Rakiya Muhammad, and many reporters of the media organisation have…

No monarch in Imo is involved in kidnapping, armed robbery -Eze Okeke

By Ibe Paschal Arogorn The factional Chairman of the Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze E . C. Okeke, has dismissed claims by the Imo State Police command that…

Ezekwesili scolds el-Rufai’s son over rape threat, tribalism

Former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, has scolded Bello el-Rufai, the son of Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, for threatening to rape the mother of someone who disagreed…

COVID-19: Before we finally lose grip

… As Forum warns FG, citizens to brace up Following scary reports of COVID 19 from across the world and the lackadaisical attitude of most Nigerians over the pandemic, Abuja…

COVID-19: Funke Akindele arrested, Naira Marley, others wanted for violating restriction order

Movie actress, Funke Akindele Bello has been arrested for flouting social restriction orders of the Lagos state government. Akindele ran foul of the authorities in Lagos when she defied the…

Ganduje Is A Monster, But Sanusi Is Not A Victim

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…

Okorocha And Imo Contracts: A vision of long tenancy in Kuje Prison

By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A Four ex-governors of four States of Nigeria are currently languishing in maximum prisons of the country, doing their time for doing the financial crime. From…

Reps probe alleged plans to divert $308million Abacha loot

The House of Representatives has mandated a committee to investigate allegations of plans to divert the recently recovered $308 million Abacha loot into private accounts using Julius Berger Nigeria Ltd.…

Insurgency: Buratai promotes three soldiers for gallantry

Three soldiers of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) have been rewarded with special promotion to the next rank for their outstanding performance in the ongoing war against insurgency in the North-East.…

Customs seizes 5,040 cartons of foreign wine declared as salt, other contraband

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operating Unit (FOU), Zone C,  Owerri has confiscated 5,040 cartons of red grape wine  smuggled into the country.  The NCS  also seized 143 bales…

Contract Probe: Under Okorocha, contracts were awarded at the pleasure of the governor – Auditor General

…Says, statutory agencies were shut out The Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts awarded from June 2011 to May 2019 headed by Justice Benjamin Iheka, yesterday, ordered the State Auditor…