Ekohot Editor 
Shareholders of Niger Insurance Plc have authorised its board to restructure the company’s share capital and also raise addition capital of up to N15 billion. This approval was granted at the 49th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the firm held on Thursday, November 21, 2019 in Lagos, where other resolutions were unanimously passed by investors. … Read more
American ride-hailing giant ‘Uber’, on Monday lost its license to operate in London following safety and security concerns cited by the state’s transport authority “Transport for London has concluded that it will not grant Uber London Limited (Uber) a new private hire operator’s licence in response to its latest application,” it said in a statement. … Read more
A Nigerian, Nonso Joachin was arrested today in India for drugs possession. The 36 year-old was arrested by the City Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru Police. Found on him was a sizable amount of drugs: 28 grams of cocaine, and 10 slips of LSD. The other items recovered from Joachin were Rs 10,000 in cash, … Read more
Hundreds of Lebanese protested near the U.S. embassy in Lebanon against U.S. intervention in Lebanon’s affairs, Al Jadeed local TV Channel reported. Protesters chanted slogans against the intervention of foreign countries in Lebanon’s nationwide demonstrations. People also burned the Israeli and U.S. flags while holding signs, criticizing any intervention by foreign embassies. “We will not … Read more
Pornhub is one of the most visited pornographic porn sites in the world, but this high traffic is no longer enough to convince major brands to advertise, fearing to be associated with contents of dubious legality. The group, physically based in Montreal, Canada and fiscally in Luxembourg, and whose goal is to trivialize porn, has … Read more
Three Months after winning the coveted awards at the 2019 Society of Petroleum Engineers Conference, energy giant, Shell Companies in Nigeria have now won the Best Exhibitor award at the National Association of Petroleum Exploration (NAPE) annual international conference and exhibition held in Lagos between November 19-22, 2019. Shell General Manager Development, Chibogwu Sam Ezugworie, … Read more
More than 60 doctors wrote an open letter published Monday saying they feared Julian Assange’s health was so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could die inside a top-security British jail. The 48-year-old Australian is still fighting a US bid to extradite him from Britain on charges filed under the Espionage Act that could see him … Read more
A 42-year-old-woman, Temitope Akinola, has allegedly poisoned her granddaughter with an insecticide, Sniper, to stop her daughter’s marriage to her lover. The suspect, who is a resident of Isote area of Sagamu, allegedly committed the offence last week Thursday and was arrested on the same day by men of Ogun State Police Command. The Police … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered security agencies in the country to produce the killers of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP Women Leaders Mrs. Achejuh Abuh. It could be recalled that PDP Women Leader who was part of the Wada/Aro campaign council was murdered some thugs after the gubernatorial election in Kogi state. President Buhari said … Read more
The sponsor of the Anti-social Media Bill Senator Mohammed Sani Musa, has defended the allegation of plagiarism of Singapore Statute levied against him. The Senate chairman of Services Committee noted that the similarity between his draft bill and the Singaporean Statute on the same subject was in order. It could be recalled that a copy … Read more
Ekohotblog learnt that a probe of Presidential Amnesty Office’s involvement in the $44.9 million wire deal linked to Air Peace chair Allen Onyema in the United States has opened. Following the bursting of alleged deals, a former top officer of the Amnesty Programme has sneaked out of the United States to evade arrest. The U.S. … Read more
The state chairmen of the All Progressive Congress APC from Kogi and Yobe state have denied the allegation that they called for the sack of the National Chairman of the party. They specifically dissociated themselves from reports linking them with the group of aggrieved chairmen and NEC members of the party who called on Oshiomhole … Read more
The All Progressive Congress APC has reacted to the alleged plan by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to boycott the supplementary poll in Kogi West Senatorial District. APC stressed that the PDP can not postponed its doom day adding that, such move was a silly joke. APC in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, … Read more
One of the National Caucus of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Sam Nkire, has boasted of a landslide victory in the 2023 presidential election. He stressed that note party could unseat the APC come 2023. Speaking after the APC National Caucus meeting at the weekend in Abuja, Chief Nkire whose position came against … Read more
A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Mustapha Audu, has called on the National Assembly to come up with stiffer sanctions to check election violence in the country. Audu made the call while addressing newsmen to commemorate the fourth anniversary of his father, late former governor of Kogi, Prince Abubakar Audu on Sunday … Read more
The Ebonyi state government has reacted to the poverty index credited to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, listing the State as the 7th poorest State in Nigeria in 2019. The state government stressed that the poverty index was fake and as such was unacceptable as it does not reflect the reality in the state. … Read more
The Governor of Niger State Abubakar Bello, has called for structural adjustment of governance in the bid to improve the economy. A statement by Mrs Mary Berje, Chief Press Secretary to the governor, said Bello made the called during a 3-day Executive Leadership Retreat on Administrative Relationship, Strategic Communication and Management of Public of Finance … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP has boasted of a landslide victory in the November 30 supplementary poll of the Kogi West Senatorial District. The party called on its members to prepare for a landslide victory. The party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Sunday in Abuja, said that … Read more
The Director, Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Programme, Baptist Cancer Centre, Memphis, Tennessee, in the U.S. Dr Ray Osarogiagbon, has warned that pollution could lead to increased Lung Cancer deaths of nonsmokers. Osarogiagbon gave the warning in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Sunday. The Oncologist said that lung cancer was on the rise among people … Read more
Pope Francis has made an impassioned appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons during a visit to Nagasaki, one of the two Japanese cities targeted by atomic bombs during World War Two. He decried the “unspeakable horror” of nuclear weapons and insisted they were “not the answer” for global peace. At least 74,000 were killed … Read more