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The management of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko has ordered the immediate closure of the institution until further notice. In a statement issued on Sunday by the university’s acting Registrar, Opeoluwa Akinfemiwa, students were asked to vacate the campus today. The statement titled Circular To All Students partly read: “Further to our circular of Saturday […]
A former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abdullahi Ibrahim has died of COVID-19 Mr Ibrahim, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who served as Minister of Transport and Aviation in the military regime of Muhammadu Buhari, was said to have died in an isolation centre in Abuja on Sunday. A former top government […]
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Cancer Enlightenment and Support Foundation (CESUF), has made a cash donation to cancer patients at the Pediatric ward of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), as part of its charity and empathy gesture, as well as to mark the Foundation’s third anniversary. Representative of the Chief Medical Director, Prof. Adetokunbo O. Fabamwo, […]
By Agency Report In a history making week when Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first-ever African American and Asian American female Vice President of the United States, Nigeria was also recording a historic first for a female public servant. The Muhammadu Buhari administration recorded a feat with the appointment of Uzoma Emenike as […]
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that his administration is engaging some companies in the production of COVID-19 vaccines for residents of the state. He disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, adding that “We have started a conversation with some of the vaccine manufacturers. Pfizer for example, I have made contact […]
Princess Adejoke Orelope Adefulire, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals has commended the President Muhammadu Buhari over recent revelation that the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria has reduced from 10.1million in 2019 to 6.95 million in 2020. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu who announced the reduction at […]
A 45-year-old driver, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for fraudulently converting to personal use a sum N2million that was erroneously transferred into his account. The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on Monday, January 18, 2021 arraigned Oluwasegun on one-count charge bordering on stealing […]
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) on Thursday urged media practitioners to refrain from fake news, axe-grinding and sensationalism in their reportage of issues and events in the country. Malami, who stated this in a keynote address at the 2021 National Conference of the National Association of […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kano Zonal Office today arraigned one Andrew Oshome before Justice Shuaibu B Shuaibu of the Kebbi State High Court sitting in Birnin Kebbi on one count charge of misappropriation to the tune of N44,800,000 (Forty-four Million Eight Hundred Thousand Naira ) The defendant was arrested by operatives of the Commission […]
Wemy Industries, the makers of Dr. Brown’s diapers, wipes, sanitary pads and Nightingale range of products, has donated some Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. The Chief Medical Director of LASUTH, Prof. Adetokunbo O. Fabamwo, who received the donated items on behalf of the hospital, commended the gesture of Wemy […]