Security sources on Saturday, said Islamic State-aligned jihadists ambushed a Nigerian military convoy, killing 15 soldiers and four militia fighters in the northeastern state of Borno. Military officials said the convoy came under heavy attack from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters near Gudumbali in the Lake Chad region […]
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Minister Of State For Petroleum Urges Nigerians To Disregard Increase In Fuel Price, Urges Marketers To Maintain Normal Fuel Price
The Minister of States for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, has disowned the reported increase in the price of petrol as announced earlier by the Petroleum Products Pricing Agency, PPPRA. In a statement to journalists on Friday, Mr Sylva said neither he nor President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the decision to increase […]
Nigeria recorded 399 new confirmed COVID-19 cases
Nigeria on Friday recorded 399 new cases of Covid 19 in the country.According to the Nigeria center for Disease Control (NCDC), the new cases were recorded from 17 states and the federal capital territory. A breakdown of the cases show; Lagos recorded 101 casesAnambra-96Edo-50Abia-29Imo-28Ogun-19Akwa Ibom-16Kaduna-13FCT-7Bayelsa-6Kano-6Oyo-6Delta-5Rivers-5Nasarawa-4Ebonyi-3Osun-3Gombe-2 Till date,160,332 cases of COVID19 […]
Kidnapped Students Rescued In Kaduna, 30 Still Missing
The Kaduna state government says 172 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Igabi LGA have been rescued after bandits attacked the school early on Friday. According to the Kaduna State commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Samuel Aruwan, 8 staff were also freed from the bandits.He, however, […]
Possible Side effect from COVID-19 Vaccination are yet to be discovered -NPHCDA
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that it is yet to observe any adverse side effect from the vaccination of COVID-19 and the observed side effects from the vaccine it had administered have only been mild. This was made known in a statement from the agency […]
Bandits Kill Seven In Three Kaduna LGAs
At least seven people have been killed and several others injured after bandits attacked Igabi, Giwa, and Chikun local government areas of Kaduna state. Security agencies also reported that properties worth millions of Naira were destroyed and cattle rustled in a series of separate attacks that occurred in the three […]
Insecurity: We Will Not Be Blackmailed, No Dialogue With Bandits – NSA
The National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno says the Federal Government will apply its full weight to deal with the criminals and will not be blackmailed by any group of people into negotiating with those who threaten the nation’s peace. The NSA who spoke on Thursday at a State House briefing […]
Fight against terrorism relieves bipartisan support as PDP Governors Shun Political Divide to Support the Federal Government To End insurgency
The federal government has been urged to take more proactive measures to tackle the increasing challenges of insecurity across the country. Speaking in Awka, the National Vice President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene said more security manpower and logistics should be deployed towards fighting insurgency, banditry and herdsmen menace […]
Nigeria continues to record increase in Coronavirus cases
Update on COVID-19 shows that on the 10th of March 2021, 394 new confirmed cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria. 5 deaths were also recorded . Till date, 159,646 cases have been confirmed. 139,983 cases have been discharged, while 1,993 deaths have also been recorded in the 36 states […]
Osun State begins vaccination of front line workers
Osun State says it has commenced vaccination of its frontline health workers against the COVID-19 pandemic. This followed the receipt of 64,240 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, on Tuesday. Speaking during the vaccination of health workers, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, said vaccinating […]