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The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered civil servants from Grade Level 14 and below to work from home. He also asked the worship centres not to hold services for more than two hours, adding that no gathering must exceed 50 per cent of the maximum capacity of the Venue. Sanwo-Olu also banned carnivals and street parties in the …

Hours after they arrived Katsina, Yahaya Salauwa, Vice Principal of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, confirmed that the abducted schoolboys are complete. After kidnapping them on 11 of December (a week to today), they were taken to Tsafe, Zamfara State. The pupils regained freedom yesterday and were currently being treated in Katsina However, speaking on Friday at the Katsina state …

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, ordered all schools in the state to shut down indefinitely. The governor said the measure was crucial to public health safety amid the increasing COVID-19 cases recorded in all local government areas in the state. Sanwo-Olu in a statement today, titled, ‘We Cannot Afford To Relax The Battle Against Covid-19’, said, “All schools …

By Okhide Em’ya David.. A 69 year-old army pensioner, Corporal Adasa Felix, has pleaded with  Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses in Benin City, to wade  into a  case of alleged maltreatment  and  ejection by  his landlord from  his apartment and reinstate him. Adasa, who attributed his nonpayment of his rent on time …

Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari has announced the release of abducted pupils of Government Science Secondary School in Ƙanƙara, Katsina State of Nigeria. The governor said the abductees will reunite with their families later after medical examination, according to the Nation. Masari said the government would increase security personnel in the schools to avert a re-occurrence. “We have protected …

Katsina State Government on Thursday night at about 9pm announced the release of the 333 boys of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara who were abducted when bandits invaded the School on Friday December 11, 2020. According to the Nation, a statement from the Secretary to Government of Katsina State, Mustapha Mohammed Inuwa, confirming the release of the boys said they …

Following the abduction of students at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, Gov. Samuel Ortom has ordered the closure of all boarding schools in Benue State. Ortom, who announced the decision on Thursday when he visited the Maximum Security Custodian Centre (MSCC) in Makurdi, condemned the abduction of students in Katsina State. He said he had directed the Commissioner …

…Warns that hospitals and facilities are overwhelmed, calls for strict enforcement of compliance protocols Members of the National Economic Council (NEC) have expressed alarm at the spike in COVID-19 cases in Nigeria and decided to act on the strict enforcement of measures to contain the spread of the disease across the country. This development came today at its monthly meeting, …

Mr Adekolawole was suspended in 1995 for allegedly sexually harrassing a woman (name withheld) in his office The Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, in Osun State, John Adekolawole, was suspended in 1995 for sexual harassment, years before he became the rector, a document obtained exclusively by PREMIUM TIMES revealed. Despite the indictment, however, the academic still emerged the rector of …

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused an unnamed governor in one of the Northwestern states of being behind the increased wave of banditry in the region. APC in a statement issued Thursday evening in Abuja by its Acting National Publicity, Mr Yekini Nabena, “challenged security agencies to investigate an intelligence report linking a Northwest governor to the heightened …