Foreign exchange scarcity continues to bite hard at the parallel market, causing the Naira to dropped N5 against the US Dollar to trade at N455/$1 on Friday, May 15, Businesspost reports At the previous session on Thursday, the local currency had traded at N450/$1 at the same market segment. Against the Euro, the local currency … Read more
A 20-year-old woman identified as Abiola Komolafe has narrated how her aunt sold her 1-month-old son to a child trafficking syndicate in Anambra state. Abiola Komolafe was paraded alongside 182 suspects by the Delta State Police Command in Asaba, for crimes ranging from terrorism, robbery, kidnap, murder, cultism, and child trafficking. Hafiz Inuwa, the state … Read more
Twenty new cases of the COVID-19 have been recorded in Kaduna State. The State Ministry of Health disclosed this on Friday, noting that 15 out of the 20 cases comprise of family members and close contacts of previously confirmed cases. According to the Commissioner for Health, Dr Amina Baloni, a four-month-old baby girl and six … Read more
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has congratulated Chief Dele Momodu on his sixtieth birthday. Sanwo-Olu described the occasion as momentous for a man who has dedicated his life to the celebration of Africans through his profession. In a statement released on Saturday and signed on his behalf by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, Sanwo-Olu said … Read more
The rampant coronavirus has taken a toll on human minds as well. People across the world are indulging in strange things out of fear since the enforcement of lockdown. Recently, news of a weird incident came to light from the Alipore Bodyguard Line in Kolkata. Police found a decomposed body of a young man on … Read more
A Reverend father identified as Father Abel Mwelwa has been suspended in Lusaka, Zambia after his married lover allegedly died during marathon sex in his house. According to local reports, the deceased who was a member of the Catholic Women’s League from St Maurice Catholic Church had lied to her husband that she was going … Read more
A Calabar based Nigerian pastor, Prophet Goodheart Val Aloysius has claimed he has a solution to Covid-19 as he began the sales of a certain prevention oil for the disease. Taking to his Facebook page, the cleric, who is the founder a church in Calabar, Cross River state, The Wealthy Place claims the solution gives … Read more
A post-mortem examination of the helicopter crash that killed basketball star Kobe Bryant has ruled blunt force trauma as the cause of death for all nine victims. The 180-page report also found that the pilot, 50-year-old Ara Zobayan, tested negative for drugs and alcohol. The cause of the 26 January crash, which occurred in California … Read more
The federal government yesterday pleaded with COVID-19 survivors to stop giving details of the drugs used for their treatment to discourage self-medication. The Chairman, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Mr. Boss Mustapha, made the plea at a press briefing in Abuja, following recent video testimonies of some high profile survivors, talking about the drugs administered … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, on Saturday revealed why the president doesn’t wear face mask. Onochie pointed out that expert medical protocol states that there is no need for face mask when in a safe environment, hence Buhari’s reason for not wearing it. She explained that the rule stressed that … Read more
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) in its efforts to boost productivity and overall performance of businesses is set to connect entrepreneurs to experts the latest initiative tagged “Top-5-In-5” “Top-5-In-5”, a digital video knowledge sharing and capacity building series designed to give Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) practical insight into different areas of the business … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump has sacked State Department Inspector General Steve Linick. A Democratic lawmaker said Linick was sacked by Trump for opening an investigation on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The lawmaker Eliot Engel accused Trump of committing a potentially illegal act of retribution. “Mr. Linick’s firing amid such a probe strongly suggests that … Read more
Oyo and Adamawa states on Friday discharged 19 patients after they tested negative twice for coronavirus. 11 were discharged from the Oyo State Infectious Disease Centre, Olodo, Ibadan. The patients, who had stayed at the isolation centre for between five days and two weeks, were all said to be asymptomatic all through the period of … Read more
The National Association of Nigerian Students on Friday has threatened to embark on a nationwide protest if the Federal Government continued its school feeding programme during school closure occasioned by of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is as the Federal Government on Friday explained that it continued the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme because it was … Read more
As the locations of the 15 Chinese doctors and technicians remain unknown, an Investigative Journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has claimed that they are in Southeastern Nigeria. Kemi made the revelation on Twitter in response to a question from Social Media influencer, Deji Adeyanju. Deji had echoed the statement of the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire that … Read more
Nigerian Government has given reason for the rising cases of death in recent days. The government is worried that there might have been an increase in the number of deaths not associated with the dreaded COVID-19 since the virus entered Nigeria. FG noted that the rise in reported death cases could be attributable to fear … Read more
Ogun State residents are getting frustrated already and groaning in pains as the Lockdown enters another 7 days. For the third time, Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, announced the extension of COVID-19 lockdown in the state for another one week till Sunday, May 24. Abiodun said this while addressing newsmen at the Governor’s Office, Oke … Read more
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested two persons in connection with the killing of a leader of the Ogboni Fraternity in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area of the state, Chief Stephen Akinkunmi. Akinkunmi, who was described as a leader of the fraternity in the South-West, was allegedly killed on the premises of the Saint … Read more
In one fell swoop, four states in the North – Borno, Gombe, Adamawa and Zamfara – on Thursday reopened Churches and Mosques. It was a major easing of the lockdown imposed to curb Coronavirus spread. The Federal Government frowned at the situation having not been consulted as expected, in line with the COVID-19 protocol. Besides, … Read more
Nigerian entertainer Falz has asked Muhammad Babandede, the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), to reverse the ‘Siberia’ posting of the female officers who participated in the viral #DontRushChallenge video. Ekohotblog that in a disciplinary memo dated Wednesday, April 15, 2020, the female officers –Priscilla Irabor, Catherine J. Bakura, Blessing Alfred Udida, Binti I. Attabor, and Ockiya Eneni, were notified … Read more