Regina Daniels, the beautiful wife of billionaire lawyer and politician, Ned Nwoko, has said she has never been as happy as she is at the moment following her journey to motherhood. The Nollywood star is pregnant and she can’t hide her joy about it as she revealed that she is about to become a mother. Read more
Month: May 2020
SERAP charges Buhari over fresh $5.5bn credit, demands account for previous loans
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to provide spending details of all loans obtained by his government since the inception of his administration from May 29, 2015. In a request sent via Freedom of Information, the group asked Buhari to include details and locations of projects on which the loans Read more
Obasanjo fires tens of workers amid COVID-19 lockdown
Some members of staff of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State have been sacked following economic hardship caused by COVID-19 pandemic. Head of Human Resources, Administration and Procurement, Olanike Ogunleye, made this known in a statement. Read COVID-19: 268 stranded Nigerians arrive Abuja from China Why explaining reasons for the mass retrenchment, Read more
Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem reopens after two months
By AFP Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound — the third holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia — reopened on Sunday after being closed for more than two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of worshippers in protective masks were let into the compound before the first prayers of the day, Read more
Kidnapped Nasarawa CAN chairman regains freedom
Agency Report The Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Nasarawa State chapter, Joseph Masin, who was abducted by gunmen on Thursday in Lafia has regained his freedom, NAN reports. Bola Longe, the Commissioner of Police (CP) in the state, confirmed the release of the CAN chairman to journalists on Sunday in Lafia. Longe said that four Read more
AfDB approves 88 million euros emergency budget support for COVID-19 response
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Friday approved a loan of 88 million euros to Senegal, hit hard by the novel coronavirus pandemic, in support of the costs of its national COVID-19 Economic and Social Resilience Program. The financing, which falls under the Bank’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Facility, will provide the Read more
COVID-19: 268 stranded Nigerians arrive Abuja from China
About 268 stranded Nigerians evacuated from China have safely arrived Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport in Abuja on Saturday. African nationals had last month protested harassment from the Chinese government, amidst the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Asian country. In several videos circulated on social media, Nigerians and other African nationals were reportedly subjected to forced Read more
Zamfara free of COVID-19 cases after discharging all patients
Zamfara currently has no active cases of COVID-19 as of May 29,2020, after it discharged the last five patients in the state. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), according to its records, showed the state confirmed its first two cases on April 24, 2020, and at the time, Nigeria had recorded 1,095 cases in Read more
Oyo: Gov Makinde commissions Ipapo Model Basic School
By Lukman Omikunle Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has commissioned a model school – Anwar-Ul-Islam Basic School, Ipapo in Itesiwaju Local Government Area of the state. Ipapo, one of the most prominent towns in Itesiwaju Local Government, got the attention of the state government in terms of infrastructural development for the first time in as Read more
Anthony Joshua: ‘I don’t have a girlfriend and I haven’t had one for a while’
“For me to have a relationship now means I would have to compromise and change my ways and I don’t know how easy that would be for me to do.