Nigeria on Friday registered 796 new cases, highest single -day COVID-19 infections in 24 hours, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) said on its website. The new infections showed an increase of 51 cases over the previous record of 745 registered cases, almost six months ago on 19 June, 2020. The agency said that the 796 were diagnosed with COVID-19 in 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory, bring the total nationally to 72,140 with 190 deaths.. FCT led with 258 cases of the virus, while Lagos came second with 248, and Kaduna state in third position with 117, NCDC…
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The death has occurred of the Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah. He died at age 58. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari in a condolence message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Saturday, condoled with the media fraternity, the Nda-Isaiah family, friends and associates of the deceased. He described him as ‘a friend and ally’. “The country has lost a man of conviction, a resolute and dogged believer in a better Nigeria. “He will be sorely missed. This is a massive fish gone out of the media ocean,” Buhari said of the pharmacist, renowned columnist, and one time…
No fewer than 238, 868 individuals from 41,726 businesses have been paid various sums under the Payroll Support Scheme as at Dec. 8, an update by the Project Delivery Office (PDO) has said. The update was made available to newsmen on Friday in Abuja by Tola Johnson, Special Assistant to the President on Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Office of the Vice President and Coordinator, PDO. The Payroll Support is a component of the Survival Fund Scheme for MSMEs captured under the National Economic Sustainability Plan drafted by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo-led Economic Sustainability Committee and approved by President…
Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu, Enugu State, on Thursday, committed Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo to prison for fraud. Nwankwo, former Rector, Enugu Polytechnic, Ndeabor, Ani-Nri, Local Government Area, was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on six-counts charges, bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of N1,153,700.00, being the amount he obtained by fraud from some students of the school in contravention of Section 1(1)(a) of Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and Punishable under Section 1(3) of the…
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday ordered that only the counsel, parties involved and accredited journalists would be allowed into the courtroom in the trial of trial of Convener, #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore. Sowore and Bakare were, on Feb. 13, rearraigned on a two-count charge of treasonable felony, against the initial seven-count charge filed against them in September 2019. They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. Delivering a ruling, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu noted that accredited journalists were not excluded from the court. “I am inclined to grant the application in line with COVID-19…
Nigerian ambassador to the United States, Mr Syvanus Nsofor is dead, aged 85, Arise News TV reports. He reportedly died in a Maryland hospital on Thursday. A retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Nsofor assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States on November 13, 2017. Born on March 17, 1935, Nsofor was appointed a judge in 1977 and he spent 28 years on the bench, 13 of which were as a Justice of the Court of Appeal (JCA). At 82 years, he was nominated as a non-career ambassador by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The U.S. has donated maritime security equipment worth $180,000 (N70 million) to the Nigerian Navy, the U.S Consulate in Lagos said in a statement on Friday. The equipment is to enable the navy to upgrade the anti-piracy and nautical security functions of the country’s Regional Maritime Awareness Capability (RMAC). RMAC was developed in 2006 to upgrade the maritime domain awareness capability of U.S. partners. The consulate said that the equipment donated were integrated to improve the navy’s capacity to track and counter marine threats through its RMAC. The donations include, “a selection of best-in-class sensors and radars, communications and networking…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Adamawa says no fewer than 40 persons died in road accidents between September and December 9. The corps also states that 203 other persons sustained various degrees of injury. Mr Ocheja Ameh, FRSC Adamawa Sector Commander, said on Friday in Yola, that the period within September and December. 9 also recorded 82 road traffic accidents. He said thst 138 vehicles with 407 people were involved out of which 364 persons were rescued by FRSC officials to nearest hospitals. He attributed major reasons for the accidents to speed violation, tyre puncture, wrong overtaking and…
Twenty-five civil society organizations have expressed appreciation over the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami’s efforts that culminated to the successes recorded in the anti-corruption crusade of the President Muhamadu Buhari’s administration. This is contained in a statement issued by Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice which was made available to newsmen in Abuja on Friday the 11th day of December 2020. He said the organizations are of national, regional and international operations. They include anti-corruption and forensic…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said it has not suspended its ongoing nine-month-old strike. Dr. Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the University of Jos Chapter of ASUU disclosed this in an interview on Friday in Jos. According to him, the union has not signed any agreement with the Federal Government to call off the strike as being purported in some quarters. He said that the Federal Government had promised to fulfill part of the agreement that led to lingering strike, but had failed to do so till date. “It must be categorically stated here that ASUU never signed any…