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The Edo state government has asked Mr Tony Kabaka Adun to pay it the sum of N18million as costs of logistics arising from the demolition of his hotel on February this year.Recall the Edo State Government on February 5, 2020, demolished a part of the hotel owned by Mr. Tony Adun, popularly known as Tony Kabaka at its location on ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, May 15, 2020, handed over a property forfeited by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke to the Lagos State government for use as an isolation centre for COVID-19 patients. The property consisting six flats of three bedrooms and a boys’ quarter was forfeited by Mrs Allison-Madueke following an order of ...

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello (left), presenting the site location map of the land allotted for the NNPC health facility to the NNPC Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari (right), during the visit to the NNPC Towers. The Honourable Minister of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCT), Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, has commended the leadership of ...

Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari tranded Nigerians in India, who have indicated interest in returning home on account of COVID-19, will have to pay for flight, accommodation and feeding before they can be evacuated to Nigeria, SaharaReporters is reporting. The High Commission of Nigeria office in New Delhi, India, said the government can no longer bear the responsibilities of the evacuees on arrival ...

THE Environmental Health Officers Association (EHOAN), Lagos Chapter, has said that the surge in a number of people struggling to patronise banks’ Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) was a source of community transmission of COVID-19. Mr Taiwo Awonuga, its President, made the observation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday. Awonuga was reacting to ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Ibrahim Gambari, former UN under secretary-general, as his chief of staff. Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation, announced the appointment of Gambari at the federal executive council meeting on Wednesday. Gambari replaces Abba Kyari who died on April 17 from COVID-19 complications. The new chief of staff, who is from Kwara state, ...

The Board of Trustees of the Atlantic Hall School has come under scathing attack from parents who describe the virtual lesson fees during the school closure as exploitative and unfair. The School had imposed an initial monthly fee of N195,000 per student with effect from May, with the plan for the virtual school to run till end of July or ...

Nigeria on Tuesday recorded a massive drop in the rate of infection from the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. This was from the figures released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control late on Tuesday. The figures showed a total of 146 infections all over the country. In the last one week, the country had largely gone past 200 infection cases on daily ...

The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has cried profusely in a new audio, DAILY NIGERIAN is reporting. The newspaper said Shekau in the 82 seconds audio sought the protection of Allah against the firepower of the Nigerian military. He was quoted as having said in the video, in which he spoke in Kanuri: “If it is the devilish act and wickedness (of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the presidential task force on COVID-19 to pick up Covid-Organics, Madagascar’s self-proclaimed, plant-based “remedy” for coronavirus. Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation, broke the news at the daily briefing of the task force, which he heads. He said Madagascar donated some of the products to Nigeria through Guinea-Bissau and arrangements were being ...