President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday travel to London, UK, for a medical check-up. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement obtained by SaharaReporters. Buhari is expected back in the country in the second week of July. Since he assumed office on May 29, 2015, Buhari…
Operatives of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) have nabbed one of their officers who reportedly sneaked in over 4.8kg of cannabis sativa and eight Android phones into the correctional facility in Kano. There was an uproar at the correctional centre on Thursday after the prison wardens detected and seized the cannabis allegedly brought to some inmates on death row at…
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said the President of Benin Republic, Patrice Talon, had expressed readiness for his country to be part of Nigeria. Onyeama, who stated this shortly after a close door meeting with Beninoise Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Aurélien Agbenonci, said the Beninoise president gave the offer when he visited President Muhammadu Buhari, a few weeks back. “The President of Benin…
Akinwumi Adesina, president of The African Development Bank (AfDB)has been cleared of all charges by the independent review panel led by Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, according to a report. From TheCable news Some whistleblower allegations of favouritism had been levelled against Adesina and although he had been cleared by the ethics committee of…
Senator Smart Adeyemi from Kogi West set to introduce a bill, saying no one will steal if hands are cut off. The senator said the law will encourage people to stop stealing public funds. According to him, if the hands of public officers in the country are cut off, they will not steal again. Senator…
A pastor of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Mayomi Ogedengbe was on Monday abducted in his church located in Irese, a community near Akure, Ondo State capital. According to an eyewitness, the kidnappers came in with a black Corolla Sports Car and took the pastor away to an unknown destination. The whereabouts of the pastor…
The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force announced on Monday that it has relaxed the curfew imposed on the state due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Task Force also made the decision public that the curfew would now run from 10pm to 4am, Also a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo…
The Police in Ondo State has arrested a middle-aged man identified as Gbenro Adetunji for allegedly killing his wife, Wayesola, in Ondo City in the state. A source said Adetunji killed his wife by strangulating her at Salvation Army Street, Odojọmu in Ondo last Monday morning. It was gathered that the ugly incident was witnessed…
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno Sunday said his administration discovered that 650 of 1,000 families in the Internally Displaced Person (IDPs) camps were ‘ghosts’ and have benefited from foods distributed to the vulnerable. Mr. Zulum made the discovery at midnight, during his visit to Mohammed Goni College of Islamic Legal Studies in Maiduguri, where IDPs…
Ballon d’Or was yesterday canceled for the first time ever in 64 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ballon d’Or award that has been won 6 times by Lionel Messi and 5 times by Cristiano Ronaldo won’t come up this year, 2020. France Football released a statement that says; “For the first time since…
