Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Prof . Chris Bode , says no fewer than 100 patients are being treated daily at the hospital’ s cancer treatment centre. Bode made this known to newsmen on the sidelines of the 2019 LUTH Week organised by the hospital in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria … Read more
The Department of Petroleum Resources has sealed five fillings stations in Cross River State for selling petrol above the government approved price of N145 per litre and other offences. DPR Operations Controller in Cross River State, Mr Philip Awolu, disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeriain Calabar on Sunday. The intensified surveillance across the state … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Monday for Riyadh , the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to attend the third edition of the Future Investment Initiative organised by Saudi ’s Public Investment Fund. According to a release posted on the Instagram handle of a presidential aide, Buhari Sallau , the theme of the programme is, … Read more
Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has hailed the University of Lagos for the role it had played over the years in the development of the country. Osinbajo, who spoke on Saturday during UNILAG Alumni Association Golden Jubilee Awards and Gala Night held in Lagos, said that regardless of instances of wrong acts by some … Read more
Nigerians have joined Enough is Enough Nigeria to demand that Stella Adadevoh, the medical doctor, who lost her life to Ebola disease by preventing its spread in the country, be immortalised with a national honour. EiE began a petition on Saturday, asking Nigerians to demand from President Muhammadu Buhari to recognise Adadevoh with the highest … Read more
The Oba of Benin Kingdom, Oba Ewuare II, has opined that culture and sports have unified Nigerians more than politics. The revered monarch, who gave the submission on Saturday at the Benin Golf Course during the ongoing National Festival of Arts and Culture in Edo State, added that it was time for all sections of … Read more
Catholic Bishops approved a proposal on Saturday allowing some married men to be ordained as priests in the Amazon region. The proposal, which must be approved by Pope Francis, would be a historic change to the church’s centuries-old tradition of unmarried priests. It passed by a vote of 128-41 and applies only to some churches … Read more
Welcome to EKOHOTBLOG roundup of top Major Nigerian headlines for today, Sunday, October 27th, 2019 1. Cultists Injure 3 during attack on Mosque Three persons have reportedly sustained life-threatening injuries during an attack by suspected Eluku cultists in Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State. READ MORE 2. 40 Villages Affected By Flood In Adamawa … Read more
Three persons have reportedly sustained life-threatening injuries during an attack by suspected Eluku cultists in Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State. The attackers unleashed terror on a popular mosque, Zumuratul Mu’min Mosque in Amororo area of the town while vehicles and houses around the mosque were also destroyed. According to reports, they poured boiling … Read more
Close to 40 villages have been sacked by flood in Adamawa, with farmlands and houses seriously affected. The Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA), Dr Muhammad Sulaiman, confirmed this to NAN on Saturday in Yola. Sulaiman said the development followed heavy downpour recorded in the last three days in some parts of the … Read more
The Kebbi State Police Command have arrested three suspected kidnappers who planned to invade and abduct students of the Federal Technical College in Zuru area of the state. The Kebbi State Commissioner of Police, Garba Danjuma said the three suspected kidnappers are from Yobe State. He said they had earlier written to the principal of … Read more
Justice D. Z. Senchi of Federal High Court, Jabi, Abuja has cancelled the arrest warrants earlier issued against a former justice minister, Mohammed Adoke, former petroleum minister, Dan Etete and four others . The court ruled that the warrants would be re-issued after the EFCC must have served them by substituted means, the criminal charge … Read more
Nine persons have been confirmed dead while 12 others sustained various degrees of injuries in separate road accidents around Ijebu Ife axis on Sagamu – Ijebu -Ode – Benin expressway on Sunday. This was confirmed by the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, Mr Clement Oladele. Oladele explained that the first crash … Read more
– The Miyeitti Allah scribe described Governor Ortom as a peace-loving man who stood firmly for the emancipation of his people – Governor Ortom told the Miyeitti Allah group that the enactment of the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law by Benue State Government was to end the killing of innocent people – Ortom … Read more
– Religious leaders warns INEC and security agencies – “Some of the things that happened during the last elections actually discouraged us but as elders , we have decided to move forward – He said that Nigeria was ripe for electronic voting, urging the the National Assembly to work toward realising it Religious leaders in … Read more
Four Children of the same parents were on Saturday crushed to death in Benin, Edo State. According to reports, the children were knocked down by a BMW car while crossing the busy Uselu/Lagos Expressway, close to the traditional ground, in Egor Local Government Area of the State. Residents took to the streets to protest the … Read more
– Ondo APC calls on the NWC to implement the peace parley resolutions – A special Interest Group (SIG) within Ondo APC at its meeting yesterday, made this known in Oba-Ile, Akure North local government Area – The APC stalwarts maintained that the dissolution would uphold the integrity of APC’s Constitution to deal with anti-party … Read more
Anambra State Commissioner for Works, Mr Marcel Ifejiofor, on Friday allegedly locked out staff of the Ministry who reported late to work. The commissioner, according to a source, said it was a way of instilling discipline in the state’s workforce, and making them to know that it was not business as usual. “I wonder why … Read more
– Motorist killed three sisters on their way to new Benin Market – Youths of Uselu Community took to the street in protest and blocked the busy highway – An eyewitness, Osas Ikpomwosa, said that they woke up to find four dead bodies along the road A motorist has killed three sisters along the Benin-Lagos … Read more
– APC national leader said that there was no need for an Airport in Ekiti – There have been ongoing plan to build an airport in Ado-Ekiti a plan that the state has been working on for years leading to the inauguration of an eight-man committee to oversee its construction – The former Lagos Governor … Read more