Evans: Scared witnesses can testify online, court rules
Nov. 29, 2021 Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, has granted permission to two witnesses who do not want to appear in court to testify against kidnap…
#Feranmi Aladegbonmire: Family of Boy with brain tumour cries for financial help
November 29, 2021 The parents of 16-year-old Oluwaferanmi David Aladegbonmire have sent a save our soul (SOS) appeal to good hearted citizens to help save the life of their son…
Nigeria’s Seplat in talks to buy Exxon’s local shallow-water oilfields
Nov 29, 2021 Nigeria’s Seplat Energy along with a partner is in talks to buy ExxonMobil’s shallow-water oilfields in the African nation, the company said on Monday, cautioning there was…
Vaccines should give good protection against Omicron – S/African expert
Nov 29, 2021 Existing COVID-19 vaccines should be highly effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalisation from the newly identified Omicron variant, a top South African infectious disease expert said…
COVID-19 vaccines: Most donations to Africa have been ad hoc, provided with little notice, short shelf lives – Joint Statement
Nov. 29, 2021 Majority of the vaccine donations to Africa to-date have been ad hoc, provided with little notice and short shelf lives. This, according to a joint statement by…
Extortion: JAMB to take over collection of registration fee from CBT centres from 2022
Nov. 29, 2021 JAMB says it has taken over the collection of the N700 registration fee for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), from 2022. It said in its weekly…
NCC enlightens BUK students, others on rights, privileges as telecoms consumers
Nov. 29, 2021 The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has hosted another edition of Campus Conversation (CC), at the weekend in Bayero University, Kano (BUK), where officials of the Commission engaged…
Canada Detects First Cases Of Omicron Variant In Two Travellers From Nigeria
Nov. 29, 2021 Canada announced that it has detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of COVID-19, in two people who had traveled recently to Nigeria. The government…
Alleged attempted kidnap: Evans’ co-defendant dies in custody
Nov. 29, 2021 Chiemeka Arinze, one of the co-defendants in the alleged kidnap and trial of Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has died in the custody of Correctional Services. Arinze was…
Jos prison attack: 7 fleeing inmates rearrested, 1 voluntarily surrenders
Nov. 29, 2021 The Police Command in Plateau says it has arrested eight of the inmates who escaped on Sunday during an attack on the State’s Correctional centre by gunmen….