Kwara State Fire Service, on Thursday, recovered the body of a 49-year-old man and also rescued a 17-year-old boy from a domestic well in Offa town. The man identified as Fasasi Afeez, and his son Kaleed Afeez from Offa local government area Kwara State, fell into a well. However, while the man was recovered dead,…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday elected two candidates to fly its ticket for the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State. The two candidates are Philip Shaibu, the incumbent deputy governor of the state and Asue Ighodalo. The two candidates emerged in a parallel governorship primaries that took place in Benin City….
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday defended his administration’s reforms, saying there is no going back. Tinubu on his inauguration declared an end to the fuel subsidy regime and later floated the naira alongside a slew of reforms. The moves have triggered a hike in the cost of living in Nigeria as the country’s currency lost…
10,000 children in Burkina Faso and Cameroon have received the RTS,S malaria vaccine after it was introduced in 2024. Cameroon launched the vaccine on January 22, 2024. It is being integrated into its national routine immunization programme in more than 500 public and private health facilities across 42 health districts in the country’s 10 regions. Burkina Faso introduced the…
Strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Benue State University, has continued following the inability of the university management to meet the demands of the union. This was disclosed by the Chairman of ASUU-BSU, Dr. Kwaghfan Tarnongo while speaking to journalists in his office on Wednesday in Makurdi. He disclosed that the…
The Accident and Emergency, A&E, Department of 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna, has lost three members of staff and a patient suspected to have died from acute Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, VHF. A statement from Brig Gen. Aso Okoigi, said, “This followed the management of a patient with febrile illness thought to have been the…
The Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Abaniwinda Olufemi has said operatives of the Eagle-Net’s Special Squad have arrested a fifty-four-year-old woman, Efe David with one hundred and seventy-five, 175 live cartridges. The Police boss disclosed this during a press briefing in Asaba. He said the suspect an indigene of Oria-Abraka Community in Ethiope-East Local…
Asue Ighodalo has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary for Edo State, beating other aspirants including Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu in the election held in Benin City on Thursday. In the exercise held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in the Edo State capital, Ighodalo polled 577 votes to emerge as the state ruling…
Ace singer, Tony Tetuila has hinted at working with Afrobeats star, Burna Boy, on the remix of his hit song, My Car. ‘My Car’ was a hitsong released by Tetuila in 2001. The song went on to make waves nationwide. In an interview with Daddy Freeze, Tetuila said he would like to feature the Grammy-winning…
The Delta State Police Command has invited a human rights activist, Israel Joe over a planned protest against the economic hardship in the country. The Police invitation was signed by CSP Ya’U Musa Kangiwa 2i/C State Intelligence Department, SCID. No reasons were given for the invitation which is slated for Thursday. In response to the…
