New York Assembly To Suspend Cuomo Impeachment Investigation
New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced Friday that the Assembly will suspend its impeachment investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Heastie said there are two reasons for the decision. “First, the purpose of the Assembly Judiciary Committee’s impeachment investigation was to determine whether Governor Cuomo should remain in office. The governor’s resignation answers that […]
COVID-19:Nigeria Records 636 New Cases, 11 Died As Of Friday
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that 11 patients died from coronavirus (COVID-19) on Friday in Nigeria. The NCDC, which made this known via its verified website on Saturday morning, said the country’s fatality toll from the pandemic now stood at 2,211. The agency added that the country logged 636 additional infections […]
IDPs Oppose Borno Govt’s Plan To Reintegrate Over 1000 ‘repentant’ Boko Haram Members
The decision by the Borno State Government to reintegrate over 1,000 repentant Boko Haram fighters into the society has generated animosity by some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-East. The IDPs’ animosity is based on the fact that they are still languishing in pain and grieve caused by the activities of the Boko Haram […]
Court Orders Forfeiture Of N241m Allegedly Diverted From SSA To SDGs Office
The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday under the ruling of Justice Nicholas Oweibo ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of N241 million allegedly diverted from the office of the Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Justice Oweibo also ordered that a building, Real Tower Centre Shopping Complex […]
Sultan Pleads With Resident Doctors To Discontinue Their Strike
President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has pleaded with resident doctors to discontinue their industrial strike giving the breaking impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the flare-up of cholera in certain pieces of the country. This was contained in a statement issued Saturday by NSCIA’s […]
U.S. Is Sending 3,000 Troops Back To Afghanistan To Begin Evacuations
The Pentagon is moving 3,000 Marines and soldiers to Afghanistan and another 4,000 troops to the region to evacuate most of the American Embassy and U.S. citizens in Kabul, as the Biden administration braces for a possible collapse of the Afghan government within the next month, administration and military officials said. The sharply deteriorating situation in the […]
Six People Killed In Mass Shooting In Plymouth, England
Six people, including a child, were killed in a mass shooting in the city of Plymouth in southwest England on Thursday evening, in an incident described by the British Home Secretary as “shocking”. Two females and three males, including the suspect, died from gunshot wounds at the scene of the incident, the Devon and Cornwall […]
Vote Count Begins In Zambia’s Closely Fought Elections
Electoral officials in Zambia has commenced vote counting following the successful staging of the southern African nation’s general elections. After 12 hours of voting, polling stations started closing at 6 pm (1600 GMT), though several hundreds still in queues were being allowed to cast their ballots. Some voters complained about the slow pace of voting […]
South Africa Wants More Men To Take Covid Jabs
South Africa has urged more men in the country to come out in larger numbers and take Covid jabs as their number trails that of women. About 60% of vaccines have been administered to women, health officials noted on Friday during a media briefing on the government’s efforts in the fight against the disease. It […]
Oyo Educates Workers On e-Governance To Promote Productivity
Oyo State government has commenced the training of its workers on Information Communication Technology, saying it plans to ensure a change of its record-keeping processes and registries in the state public and civil service from analog to digital through its office on ICT/e-governance. The commissioner for Establishment and Training, Alhaji Siju Lawal, disclosed this at […]
