Category: News

  • Innoson wins `2020 Car Maker of the Year’ award

    Innoson wins `2020 Car Maker of the Year’ award

    Chief Innocent Chukwuma, Chairman of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Co. Ltd emerged winner of the `Car Maker of the Year’ 2020 Igbere TV Leadership Excellence Awards. The award is endorsed by the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOCC). In a seven-day voting by Nigerians via online platforms monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria…

  • Court orders permanent forfeiture of 31 vehicles to Lagos govt

    Court orders permanent forfeiture of 31 vehicles to Lagos govt

    The Lagos Mobile Court has ordered permanent forfeiture of d 31 vehicles to the state government for contravening the Traffic Laws. The Chairman of the Lagos State Environment and Special Offences, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, issued the order after the drivers pleaded guilty. He held that the 31 defendants pleaded guilty to the one-way traffic offence…

  • COVID-19 2nd wave: WAHO warns ECOWAS member states to remain vigilant

    COVID-19 2nd wave: WAHO warns ECOWAS member states to remain vigilant

    The West Africa Health Organisation (WAHO) has warned Member States of the ECOWAS Community to brace up and prepare for the possibility of a second wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic. WAHO gave the warning in Guinea Bissau at the ongoing delocalised meeting of Parliament, with the theme: ‘Agricultural Production and Food Security in the ECOWAS…

  • Kaduna govt. enrolls 8,810 vulnerable persons into contributory health scheme

    Kaduna govt. enrolls 8,810 vulnerable persons into contributory health scheme

    The Kaduna State Contributory Health Management Authority (KADCHMA) has identified and enrolled additional 8,810 vulnerable persons into the state’s contributory health scheme. The Director-General, KADCHMA, Mr Aliyu Saidu, said that the identification and enrollment exercise cut across 17 local government areas of the state. “We will complete the remaining three local governments soon so that…

  • Balarabe Musa, dogged, rare democrat – Wamakko

    Balarabe Musa, dogged, rare democrat – Wamakko

    The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Defence, Sen. Aliyu Wamakko, has described the Second Republic Governor of old Kaduna State, the late Alhaji Balarabe Musa, as a dogged and rare democrat. Wamakko, in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Bashir Mani, said that Musa’s demise had left a…

  • Buhari mourns ex-governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa

    Buhari mourns ex-governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa

    President Muhammadu Buhari has joined government and people of Kaduna State in mourning a former civilian governor of the state, Alhaji Balarabe Musa. The president, in a condolence message by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday said the deceased would be sorely missed by all Nigerians, who have diligently followed his antecedents…

  • Gender Violence: Osun Govt. trains women on martial arts

    Gender Violence: Osun Govt. trains women on martial arts

    The Osun Government says it has started training women and children on martial arts as the first line of self-defence against attacks and to curb gender-based violence in the state. Mrs Olubukola Olaboopo, the Commissioner for Women, Children and Social Affairs, made the disclosure in an interview with Our correspondent on Wednesday in Osogbo. She…

  • Nigerians’ll benefit from COVID-19 vaccines – FG

    Nigerians’ll benefit from COVID-19 vaccines – FG

    The Federal Government has said Nigerians will be part of the early beneficiaries of COVID-19 vaccine when developed in commercial quantity. Minister for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said in Abuja on Tuesday that anytime a potent vaccine is found or developed as a solution to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Nigerians will not be left out.…

  • Oyo College of Education shut down indefinitely

    Oyo College of Education shut down indefinitely

    The Oyo State College of Education, Lanlate, has been shut down indefinitely as the crisis between the Students Union of the institution and the management led by the Provost, Dr Jospeh Adeagbo, got messier on Tuesday. The Students Union’s President, Olaitan Muhammad, in an interview with our correspondent on the telephone confirmed that the college…

  • Minister donates relief materials, food items to Kogi flood victims

    Minister donates relief materials, food items to Kogi flood victims

    The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu has donated relief maerials and food items to victims of flood in Koton-Karfe, Local Government in Kogi. The minister Special Assistant on Media, Mr Austine Elemue, in a statement said that Aliyu made the donation when she visited the traditional ruler of Koton-Karfe, His Royal Majesty, Alhaji…