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COVID-19: Chinese embassy donates medical items worth N5m to FCT schools

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, COVID-19, Headlines, Health Friday, May 15th, 2020

By Lizzy Okoji The Chinese Embassy has donated medical items to 100 schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to stem further spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The donated medical items worth over N5 million, was part of Chinese Embassy support to the Nigerian government in fighting the coronavirus. According to the Ambassador of China to […]

FG has received N792m donations to fight COVID-19 – PTF

Posted by admin COVID-19, Headlines, Health Friday, May 15th, 2020

By Femi Ogunshola Mr. Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), and PTF chairman, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja. “The OAGF has published the details of inflow into the FGN COVID-19 Eradication Support Accounts. “As at May 14th, N792 million was credited to the Treasury Single Account from various sources,” he […]

We now collect N1,000 because of COVID-19 – Lagos sex worker

Posted by admin Headlines, Sex and Relationship Thursday, May 14th, 2020

File image *As police rescue 24 ‘hustlers’ from brothel By Evelyn Usman Among the sex workers rescued in Lagos, one has said she and her colleagues now collect N1,000 from customers due to economic constraints caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. She was among the 24 girls, who were trafficked from Akwa Ibom State to Lagos […]

Doyin Okupe reveals drugs used to cure his COVID-19

Posted by admin COVID-19, Headlines, Health Thursday, May 14th, 2020

Former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe has revealed drugs used to treat him while he battled COVID-19. Okupe had announced on his Facebook page, that on the 23rd of April, he and his wife, Aduralere tested positive to COVID-19 and that on the same day, they were […]

Lawyer floors Customs in court over duty charged at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport on personal effects that he brought into the country

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, May 14th, 2020

Kehinde Ogunwumiju Nigerian lawyer and senior advocate, Kehinde Ogunwumiju has trounced the Nigerian Customs Service over the legality of the duty imposed on the Louis Vutton laptog bag that he brought into the country last year. On Wednesday, Justice John Tsoho, chief judge of the Federal High Court Abuja ruled that it is unlawful to […]

COVID-19 Taskforce member attacked at demolished hotel in Rivers is dead

Posted by admin COVID-19, Governors, Headlines, Health, Rivers, State News Thursday, May 14th, 2020

By Okafor OfieborOne of the injured Taskforce members who was attacked at the demolished Prodest hotel by hoodlums allegedly led by the wanted Princewill Osareojiji, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Youth Leader in Eleme Local Government area, is dead. The deceased, whose identity was not revealed for security reasons was said to have died last night, […]

Lagos man who beat wife, boasted about it on Facebook, arrested

Posted by admin Headlines, Sex and Relationship Thursday, May 14th, 2020

File image A man who beat his wife mercilessly and boasted about it on Facebook has been arrested by the police in Lagos. The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT disclosed this on its twitter handle on Thursday. According to DSVRT, its attention was drawn to a viral post on Facebook wherein […]

May 14th: A Prayer for Leah Sharibu on her 17th Birthday

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Thursday, May 14th, 2020

May 14th: A Prayer for Leah Sharibu on her 17th Birthday (NNP) Christians around the world are urged to say a prayer for young Christian girl, Leah Sharibu, who was kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in February 2018. Leah celebrates her 17th birthday on May 14th in captivity. She was kidnapped along with […]

Video: Nigerian Immigration Service discipline five beautiful young female officers for participating in #Bopdaddy challenge

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Nigeria Immigration Service has disciplined five of its female officers by transferring them to Borno, Yobe, Kano and other States far away from their current duty posts for participating in a social media competition known as #Bopdaddy challenge. The PUNCH reports that the immigration authorities stated that the five women […]

Again, a thought for Leah Sharibu – By Abiodun Komolafe

Posted by admin Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Boko Haram, Columnists, Headlines, NNP Columnists Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun, Nigeria | May 13, 2020 – Thursday, May 14, 2020, will mark Leah Sharibu’s 17th year of existence on earth. By that day, she will also have gone deeper into her 3rd year as a captive in Boko Haram’s custody, ministering to the needs of the terrorists in an unfamiliar desert terrain. Lest we forget, Leah was abducted, alongside 109 other female […]