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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the Edo and Ondo gubernatorial elections scheduled for later this year have not been postponed.   Some rumours had had it that the INEC was planning to shift the two…

The Socio - Economic Right And Accountability Project (SERAP) has demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari should investigate allegation that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs is sending ‘expired’ rice to some states as palliative. …

For the third time since the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari will, at 8:00pm tonight (Monday), address Nigerians. The president had imposed a total lockdown on Ogun and Lagos states as well as Abuja on…

Wole Adedeji, Ilorin An Ilorin, Kwara State-based industrialist has given palliatives to 10,000 households aimed at cushioning the harsh effects of Coronavirus lockdown in the state. The industrialist, Alhaji Kamoru Yusuf, who…

Wole Adedeji, Ilorin The Chief Imam of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) Central Mosque, Prof. Nasir AbdulSalam, has called on Muslims to cater for the people in need more during this Ramadan. Prof. AbdulSalam ‎said helping hands…

Oyo State has recorded its second death from the novel Coronavirus disease. Governor Seyi Makinde announced this in a post on Twitter. Governor Makinde said that the victim was one of the three Coronavirus cases confirmed in the…

National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his wife, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, have both tested negative for the dreaded Coronavirus. Details later…

Borno State Commissioner for Health, Salisu Kwaya Bura, has confirmed that Abbas Kaka Hassan, a 24 year-old male, who tested positive for Coronavirus has been found in Mauduguri, the state capital, around 2:00am, on Monday. The patient…

Priscilla Ofunre, Ado-Ekiti The Ekiti State Government has confirmed the kidnap of the state’s Commissioner for Agriculture, Chief Folorunso Olabode, by suspected bandits. The commissioner was believed to have been abducted at about…

A prominent scholar and a former Head of the Department of Mass Communications, Bayero University Kano (BUK), Prof. Balarabe Maikaba, is dead. Prof. Maikaba died, on Sunday, at a private clinic in Kano metropolis, after a brief illness.…