Okada Ban: Female Gokada Rider Receives Car Gift As Compensation

Sandra, a female Gokada rider has received a car gift from Kokun Foundation for the purpose of fending for her family following the Okada ban by the Lagos State Government. Ekohotblog reports that the state government issued an order restricting motorcycles and tricycles from operating in six Local Government Areas. This has sparked lots of … Read more

Police charge Wadume, army captain with terrorism

Police Confirms The Arrest Of A Kano Man Who Locked 30-Year-Old Son In Car Garage For 7 Years

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has actually banged 16 counts verging on terrorism, murder, kidnapping as well as unlawful arms running versus the Taraba abduct authority, Bala Hamisu (also known as Wadume), Captain Tijjani Balarabe as well as 18 others. Also on the listing of offenders are StaffSgt David Isaiah;Sgt Ibrahim Mohammed; Corporal Bartholomew … Read more

Police brutalise FIIRO workers for protesting DG’s certificate

Men of the Lagos State Police Command, on Tuesday, supposedly struck some workers of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, throughout a demonstration versus the Director-General of the institute, ChimaIgwe Eko warm blog site found out that the workers were vocal singing uniformity tunes and also requiring the suspension of Igwe when the policemen … Read more

CAN refutes Buhari’s claim that 90% Boko Haram victims are Muslims

President Muhammadu Buhari has actually claimed that it is not real that Boko Haram revolt has actually asserted the lives of even more Christians thanMuslims He said that the contrary held true, firmly insisting that “90 per cent” of fatalities from strikes by the terrorists wereMuslims Buhari offered his setting in an op-ed released in … Read more

Community policing gets N31m funding, South-West governors, IGP meet Thursday

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The Federal Government has actually allocated N3108 m for purchase of devices for community policing tasks in2020 A look-up by our news workdesk right into the Federal Government’s 2020 budget plan revealed the arrangement for the expense under the Ministry of Police Affairs’ price quotes. Although the budget plan did not state details things to … Read more

Katsina: Underage Wife Stabs Sleeping Husband To Death, See Why

Katsina: Underage Wife Stabs Sleeping Husband To Death, See Why

Police Public Relations Officer, Katsina State,Mr Gambo Isah, claims the pressure has actually detained an adolescent homemaker that apparently stabbed her husband to death while he was oversleeping Katsina State. Gambo Isah divulged this on Tuesday while rundown press reporters at the Command Headquarters inKatsina He clarified that the 17-year-old suspect, Rabi Rabi’ u, dedicated … Read more

Major Nigerian Headlines For Today Wednesday, February 5th, 2020

Newspaper Headlines

Welcome to EKOHOTBLOG summary of top Major Nigerian headlines for today, Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 1. Organised Labour in Kwara to embark on 3 day Fasting Organised work in Kwara State has in fact asked staff members in the state to begin a three-day fasting as well as additionally request start from February 5 (today) … Read more

Just In: Former Majority Leader Of Ogun Assembly Is Dead

Just In: Former Majority Leader Of Ogun Assembly Dies

A former majority leader of Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon Yinka Mafe, is dead. Hon Yinka Mafe was reported dead Tuesday evening, quickly after his 46th birthday celebration. Mafe was stated to have actually suffered chest discomfort after the celebration and also passed away quickly after. His stays have actually been transferred at the … Read more

Trump Snubs Speaker Pelosi , She Rips His State Of Union Speech

Trump Snubs Speaker Pelosi , She Rips His State Of Union Speech

A bitter fight in between U.S. President Donald Trump and also top Democrat Nancy Pelosi outraged at his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, with Trump rejecting her a handshake and also Pelosi tearing apart a duplicate of his statements behind his back. As Trump completed talking and also most legislators stood to praise, … Read more

FG Drags Farmers To Court Over Non Refund Of N17bn Loan

FG Drags Farmers To Court Over Non Refund Of N17bn Loan

Some farmers in Kebbi State have been taken to court over non-payment of the loan they took to aide their farming work. It could be recalled that in 2015, the Federal Government of Nigeria under the leadership of President Muhammed Buhari, in conjunction with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), introduced a programme called Anchor … Read more

Organised Labour in Kwara to embark on 3 day Fasting

NLC

Organised labour in Kwara State has actually asked employees in the state to start a three-day fasting and also petition beginning from February 5 (today) to February 7. The purpose of the spiritual workout, the labour leaders claimed“is to seek God’s intervention on the delay in the implementation of the new national minimum wage in … Read more

NIJ: An Institute In Search Of Student Leadership

NIJ

Recent occasions within the 4 wall surfaces of the leading institution of journalism, the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, have actually once more required my hands as well as pushed me to make one more treatment, this moment, a rallying contact the progressively decreasing lack of aggressive as well as visionary student leaders for the … Read more

Outrage:- Nsukka as LG boss empowers women with head pans, trowels, shovels

There was extreme craze as well as stricture at Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State on Tuesday, adhering to the circulation of head pans, shovels as well as trovels as empowerment devices to women of the council by the Caretaker Committee Chairman, ChinweUgwu The chairman last month, got hefty objection from people of the … Read more

Sanwo-Olu Unveils Speed Boats To Combat Lagos Traffic

Lagos State Government has actually officially started business rivers transport, with the main launch of 8 freshly gotten speed boats by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, onTuesday Sanwo-Olu revealed the speed boats, which will certainly be run by the Lagos Ferry Services (LAGFERRY), at an event held at Badore Ferry Terminal in Eti-Osa Local GovernmentArea The occasion … Read more

Fayose to FG: Akure-Ado has become a death trap, repair it

Lagos High Court, Fayose, PDP

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has regreted the state of the Akure–Ado Ekiti Road, claiming the interstate roadway has transformed to a death trap. Fayose, that got in touch with the Federal Government to deal with the roadway connecting Akure, the Ondo State resources, with its Ekiti State equivalent, Ado Ekiti, claimed,“The … Read more

Budget under threat as oil sinks to $54

Oil Prices Fall To $31 In Wake Of Saudi Price War

The international oil benchmark, Brent crude, plummeted to its lowest level in more than a year on Monday, trading below the Federal Government’s benchmark for the 2020 budget, as the coronavirus outbreak hit fuel demand in China. The 2020 budget, which was signed by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in December, was based … Read more

AGF Malami says Nigeria to spend Abacha loot on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, two others

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Nigeria’s Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, has highlighted how the country will spend the US$308 million looted by the late former Head of State, General Sani Abacha when it is finally returned. He said this while signing an Asset Recovery Agreement to repatriate over US$308 million of forfeited … Read more

Coronavirus: Reps reject move to evacuate Nigerians from China

Just In: Coronavirus: Reps To Suspend Plenary For 2 Weeks

The House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a call for the evacuation of Nigerians from China as coronavirus spreads from the country to other parts of the world. The Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr Benjamin Kalu, had moved a motion praying that Nigerians stranded in China over the health … Read more

Protest as tipper crushes five people to death in Bayelsa

A fatal accident on Monday has claimed the lives of five persons in Bayelsa State. The victims, a commercial tricycle operator and his four passengers, along the Tombia-Amassoma Road in Yenagoa, were crushed to death after a collision happened between a tricycle and a tipper at about 7;30pm The collision was said to have occurred … Read more

China placed visa Restrictions on Nigerians

COVID-19: Lagos State Govt Discharges 31 Nigerians And Six foreigners

China has placed visa restrictions on Nigerians pending the time when the Coronavirus ravaging the country is contained. The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjian says the embassy had stopped the issuance of visas to Nigerians. The ambassador said China was concerned about the health of other nationals visiting China … Read more