The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 in Bauchi and federal capital territory (FCT).The NCDC announced this in Lagos on Saturday night.According to the centre, three of the confirmed cases are from Bauchi, while two are from the FCT.It said “As of 10:15 pm on April 4, 2020,…
Angry residents of communities along the Makurdi–Lafia road, on Saturday, blocked the highway in protest over the killing of five on their way to the farm in the outskirts of Makurdi, bordering Guma Local Government Area of Benue state. The protesters were said to have blocked the road with the corpses of three of the…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has given Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)Limited and other stakeholders in the downstream sector 48 hours to end the lingering fuel scarcity across the country. Addressing journalists at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, its spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, said they held a closed door meeting with stakeholders who…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Arewa Youths for Development and National Unity (AYDNU) have called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the deadline for currency swap. In separate statements on Saturday in Kaduna, both groups said many rural communities will not be able to change the old notes before the…
Despite the seeming friction with between him and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the state would always party. Speaking on Monday at the inauguration of the Orochiri-Worukwo flyover in Rivers, Wike said, Rivers state must benefit from anybody that it will support. Wike said: “If you say…
Three people have been killed while 11 others, including a Catholic priest, have been abducted in an attack on Karku community in Kauru LGA of Kaduna state. The incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday, barely two days after Governor Uba Sani received 172 christian worshippers abducted in Kurmin Wali, Kajuru LGA , on…
