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Edo-born billionaire business mogul, philanthropist and professional pilot, Captain Hosa Okunbo, has died after losing a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 63 years old. Okunbo died last night in London, 12 months after doctors told him he had nine months to live. He is survived by widow, Nosa, and children. Late Okunbo, had moved to London a year …

Harder times await Nigerians who need medical attention at the nation’s public tertiary health facilities as striking doctors – members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) – and the labour minister, Chris Ngige, have held on to their stance. The minister on Friday while appearing on a Channels Television’s programme – Politics Today – said he had invoked the ‘no …

The Middle Belt Movement for Justice and Peace, MBMJP, has lamented that the circle of killings being perpetrated by armed herdsmen militia in Benue, Kaduna and other states of the federation is festering because the federal government refused to tag the armed herders as terrorists. The MBMJP insisted that if the federal government wants to put an end to the …

The group had been accused of being responsible for the killings and slaughtering of innocent people in North-Central, South-East, South-West, and South-South regions. In the last six years, different interest groups in Nigeria have asked the Muhammadu Buhari-led government to label the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) a terrorist group over its alleged involvement in banditry activities. …

The Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC), says the country will begin inoculation of the second batch of COVID-19 Moderna vaccines from Aug. 10. The vaccines were donated by the United State of America. The Director Press, PSC on COVID-19, Mr Willie Bassey, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. According to Bassey, this is to …

A budding Author of the book: “Teenage Spirits (How Teenagers Can Rule Their World Positively),” Deaconess (Mrs.) Faith Nowinta, who clocks 45 years on August 8th, 2021, has urged teenagers never to be distracted by temporary canal activities. Deaconess Nowinta advised them to cling tenaciously to the teachings of Jesus Christ, in order for them to enjoy the benefits of …

United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, says Nigeria’s Humanitarian Response Plan, which seeks over one billion dollars is only one-third funded, calling for support to avert food crisis in  the Northeast Nigeria. Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for UN Secretary-General, said this while briefing correspondents at UN headquarters in New York, on Friday on the humanitarian situation in Northeast Nigeria, according to …

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara Command, have saved a day-old-baby girl, abandoned at a dump site, in the early hours of Friday. The Command’s Spokesman, Mr Babawale Afolabi, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Friday. Afolabi said the incident occurred at Dokoyirigi Compound, …

Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT has arrested one Joseph Udodigwe, Director, JI Promotion Ltd., and five other staff members of the company for allegedly extorting unsuspecting members of the public. The Commander of NNS BEECROFT, Commodore Bashir Mohammed, said this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Mohammed said that the arrest was done by NNS BEECROFT security patrol team …

It was jubilation among diganitaries, palace chiefs and members of the Benin Royal Family as the Oba of Benin, His Majesty Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare II on Friday announced the delivery of quadruplets from his fifth wife, Princess (Oloi) Esosa Ewuare II into the family. Oba Ewuare II made the announcement at 4:57p.m in his palace when he …