The Lagos State Government has unveiled plans to reintegrate victims of the Abule Egba pipeline fire incidence back into the society by end of June 2020 . Reintegration of the displaced 300 people include 40 infants and 30 children into the society within the next 29 days, is coming due to recovery from the post … Read more
Global tech giant, Google, recently said it was ensuring that credible sources of information were elevated on ‘search engine’ to tackle misinformation on Corona Virus (COVID 19). Google UK Public Policy Manager, Alina Dimofte, made this known during a virtual meeting on Google Meet with the theme ‘Trust, Safety, COVID-19 and the Fight Against Misinformation’. … Read more
Mr. Muhammad Babandede, the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has warned personnel of the service against extra charges on passport issuance. Babandede gave the warning during a virtual meeting with passport officers nationwide recently in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the program was anchored from the NIS Headquarters Abuja. Babandede, in … Read more
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona, to death for beating his 62-year-old father to death with an iron rod during a dispute over property in Lagos. Our reporter reports that Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo delivered the judgment in a virtual hearing. Justice Taiwo held that though the prosecution had … Read more
The Nigerian Navy (NN) recently inaugurated a 40-bed-space isolation center at the Naval Dockyard in Lagos State, for its personnel who might test positive for Coronavirus disease. The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Ibok-Ette Ibas, was represented by Rear Adm. Oladele Daji, the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Western Naval Command at the inauguration. … Read more
The Edo state police command have arrested a suspect linked to the rape and murder of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa a UNIBEN Student. Ekohotblog recalls that Vera Uwaila, 22-year-old 100-level student of the University of Benin, Edo State was raped and killed while reading in a Reedem Christian Church of God, RCCG, Benin city. The … Read more
Unknown men have reportedly invaded the isolation center at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Asaba, and forcefully moved a patient who tested positive for COVID-19 from the hospital. The patient is a 53 years Chief Nursing Officer, Mr Michael Mordi. It was gathered that the patient has been very aggressive and continually threatened the caregivers … Read more
A teenager(name withheld) has been arrested after he was caught defiling a 6-year-old girl in an uncompleted building, today, June 1st. According to Abdullateef, a Legal Practitioner who shared the story on Twitter, the little girl’s scream alerted people around. The man confessed to penetrating the girl. Read the story below… “This filthy, despicable, … Read more
Lagos Police Command has commenced disciplinary procedures against two officers indicted for partaking in the killing of Miss Tina Ezekwe within the Iyana-Oworo area of the metropolis. On the May 29, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu had ordered an in-depth investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the 17-year-old … Read more
Nigeria has recorded new Coronavirus cases with the NCDC announcing 416 new cases of Coronavirus in Nigeria. Ekohotblog reports that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 416 new Coronavirus cases in a tweet on the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Monday evening, June 1. READ ALSO: COVID-19: South Africans Rush to Liquor Stores As … Read more
The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Sani Aliyu, has stated that domestic flights will resume from June 21,2020. Ekohotblog reports that Sani stated this on Monday during daily COVID-19 briefing. “The aviation industry is requested to start developing protocols to allow for domestic flights to resume anytime from the 21st of … Read more
A former Exxon Mobil engineer, James Onuoha, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for raping a 14-year-old niece of his tenant. Onuoha 42, was arraigned by in January 2016 by the Lagos State Government, on a four-count charge of defilement. Onuoha was indicted by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). READ ALSO: https://ekohotblog2.com/2020/06/01/new-oyo-state-cp-assumes-office/ According … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has lifted the ban on social gatherings such as weddings in the country following the ease of the lockdown occasioned by Coronavirus Disease. The President however said only 100 people should be at such social gathering. Akufo-Addo fixed June 15, 22 and 29 as dates final year students of the … Read more
Nigerian music producer, Don Jazzy has said that rapists and rape apologists deserve to die for their barbaric acts. In reaction to the recent rape and murder of innocent young girls in Nigeria, Don Jazzy took a stance against the shameful action. READ ALSO: https://ekohotblog2.com/2019/12/06/opd-leads-walk-against-rape-domestic-violence/ Don Jazzy posted a photo of himself, holding a placard … Read more
A presidential aspirant for the 2023 election, Olufemi Ajadi, has been commended by residents of the Ibafo Torotoro community as he paid sympathetic homage to one of the community leaders who has been ill for a while. Other leaders and youths of the community have praised him for the uncommon deeds he had just done … Read more
Executive Chairman of Eti Osa Local Government, Hon. Saheed Adesegun Bankole has commenced the evacuation of blockages in drainage systems across his constituency. The chairman said while addressing the journalists that it would be better to evacuate whatever that may want to cause blockages of drainages now to avert unnecessary flood and other atrocious mayhem … Read more
A student, Abdul Azeez Adegboyega, has suggested that if truly the federal government has good intentions for education that a way to go about to curtailed the COVID-19 even when students resume schools is very simple. He said that he had thought over the situation and he felt his outcome over his thoughts could generate … Read more
Confederation of African Football, (CAF), has discovered that the best and long memorial impact it could give to develop women’s football is social impact. The goals which the organization wishes to realize through the social impact are: – Using the power of football to make a positive social impact for girls and women around Africa … Read more
Chelsea FC has decided to bid for Nigerian winger Samuel Chukwueze as an alternative to Borussia Dortmund’s English winger Jadon Sancho whose service is needed by other football clubs. With Sancho valued at £90 million and Manchester United also keen on the 20-year-old, Chelsea is now reported to be shifting their attention towards Chukwueze. Read … Read more
Executive Chairman of Eti Osa Local Government, Hon. Saheed Adesegun Bankole has commended the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the flagged off of the construction of the regional roads in Eti Osa. The construction of the long-awaited regional roads is attempted to decongest the traffic gridlocks along the Victoria Garden City (VGC) through freedom … Read more