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None of the 37 orientation camps of the National Youth Service Corps would be shut down if a corps member tests positive to COVID-19, the Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said. A statement issued on Sunday by the NYSC Director (Press and Public Relations), Adenike Adeyemi, said Ihekweazu spoke during […]

  The Permanent Secretary of the State House, Tijani Umar, has said the N1.3bn approved for Villa clinic was too small. He spoke in an interview with journalists on Thursday after defending 2012 budget estimate before the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs State. The Permanent Secretary who promised to put necessary arrangements […]

The Nigerian Army, contrary to its decision last week,  will appear  on Saturday before the Lagos State Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of #EndSARS peaceful protesters by soldiers on  October 20 at the Lekki tollgate. Sources close to the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel confirmed on Thursday that the army had acknowledged the […]

The Lagos State Police Command has expressed readiness to resist any form of protest, peaceful or otherwise, noting that the state was still smarting from the havoc wreaked on it in the wake of the #EndSARS protests that spread across the country. The Command said the warning became necessary because the information from intelligence reports […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that efforts are being made to address the rogue elements of the Nigerian Police Force. The president said this in a meeting at the presidential villa with a delegation of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria. Speaking to the traditional rulers, the president Buhari said “We have heard […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has reaffirmed his commitment to putting an end to estimated billing in the country. The President made this statement in a tweet on his Twitter handle @MBuhari on Wednesday stating that the deployment of meters is already in progress in a few states. “Under the first phase of the Presidential Mass Metering […]

The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) has submitted a video footage recorded by its surveillance cameras on October 20, 2020 to the Lagos judicial panel on #EndSARS. Abayomi Omomu-wansa, managing director of LCC who made the submission to the panel on Tuesday, said the cameras stopped working from 8pm on the night of the shooting at […]

  A trader Ndukwe Ekwekwe, has narrated how he ended up in a wheelchair after being thrown down from a two-storey building by the disbanded SARS operatives on February 16, 2018 in Lagos. Ekwekwe, who was escorted to the Hearing by the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry by his mother, told the panel that […]

  The Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, has said that the United States Army got Nigeria’s permission to rescue its citizen in northern Nigeria. Magashi said this to journalists at the National Assembly on Tuesday, shortly after the ministry’s budget defence. This comes three days after the Naval Special Warfare group in the United States, […]