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Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, on Tuesday, said it was not true that the court intentionally froze accounts of promoters of the recent #EndSARS protest. Justice Tsoho stressed that contrary to media reports, the court froze accounts of some corporate entities the Central Bank of …

There was confu­sion on Tuesday as Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for the abduction of students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, after bandits were said to have started negotiation with Katsina government and a parent of one of the kidnapped schoolboys. The government had pre­viously …

China has approved and will disburse its 85 per cent loan required to fund the $2.6bn Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline project, the Federal Government announced on Tuesday. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, and Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, announced this during the inspection …

A group of former senators, House of Representatives members and other politicians across the Southwest geo-political zone has urged the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to contest as president in the 2023 election. They spoke on Tuesday at the unveiling of the group’s logo …

The Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has ordered the closure of all public and private schools in the state. In a terse statement by the state commissioner for Education, Sanusi Kiru, the state government did not give reasons for the decision. “His Excellency, The Executive Governor of Kano State has …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it was prepared to meet Governor Godwin Obaseki at the Court of Appeal over a case of forgery and perjury preferred against him by the Party and William Edobor at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Chief Akin Olujimi who is the counsel …

Controversy has trailed the COVID-19 status of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Tanko Muhammad, as the Supreme Court’s Director of Information, Dr Festus Akande said it was only a rumour that the CJN has contracted the virus. Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, a member of the Supreme Court, said on Tuesday at …

Security Provision Our Major Administration Plank, Says Gov. Ugwuanyi …Declares open 4-day workshop for Police Spokespersons Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Tuesday, said that one of the reasons Enugu is among the safest and most secured states in Nigeria, was because of his administration’s continued support towards the …

758 New COVID-19 Cases, 180 Discharged And 3 Deaths On December 15 758 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; FCT-305 Lagos-152 Kaduna-103 Bauchi-44 Gombe-35 Plateau-31 Rivers-17 Sokoto-15 Kwara-13 Kano-9 Ebonyi-8 Ogun-5 Osun-5 Oyo-4 Edo-4 Anambra-4 Bayelsa-2 Ekiti-1 Taraba- Highlights On the 15th of December 2020, 758 new confirmed cases and 3 deaths …

The National Council on Nutrition chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday approved a five-year nutrition action plan that will guide the implementation of interventions and programmes to address the problems of hunger and malnutrition across all sectors in the country. The action plan was meant to further improve the …