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Just in: Foreign Affairs Minister, Onyeama, defeats COVID-19

  After 24 days, COVID-19 afflicted Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, has recovered from the virus. Persecondnews recalls that the minister...

FG inaugurates Gas Transportation Network Code to engender domestic use, economic development

  In a bid to enhance the use of gas as a catalyst for national economic development, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)...

Stepfather, friend, gang-rape 15-year-old stepdaughter, cool their feet in prison

A 50-year-old man and stepfather, Paul Nnadi, and his friend, Ayobamidele Olaiya, are to spend the next 37 days in prison pending legal advice for their...

Beyond the sacking of  Service Chiefs

By Victor Mayomi Public Service is a thankless job. The Chief of Defence Staff and Service Chiefs should therefore be comforted by this...

PTF spanks Edo APC rally, Kashamu funeral organizers for violating COVID-19 protocols

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic says it is outraged by the non-compliance with COVID-19 protocols at the All Progressives Congress Benin...

COVID-19: No tests, no reported cases in 85 council areas in 20 states yet — PTF

  Apprehensive of imminent danger, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic has disclosed that 85 local government areas in 20 states have...

World Mask Week: Masks, others only options against COVID-19 spread without vaccine, says Minister

  As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Mask Week which began on August 7, the Minister of Health,...

Insurgency: Buhari says state governments, people should appreciate troops sacrifices

  In spite of the inability of the military to win the nearly 10-year-old insurgency war in the Northern part of the country,...

Alleged corruption: Malami updates Pres. Buhari, says allegations wild, untrue

  Amid wild and unsubstantiated allegations of corruption, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Malam Abubakar Malami, has written...

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Kashamu’s 2019 Ogun guber poll running mate, Abati, says he feels like an orphan over his death 

  Dr Reuben Abati, the running mate to the late Senator Buruji Kashamu in the 2019 Ogun gubernatorial election, says he is completely heartbroken over...

Kashamu’s interment: Mass of people violate COVID-19 protocols to pay last respect

    A concourse had on Sunday massed at the late former Senator Buruju Kashamu’s Ijebu-Igbo country home in Ogun State to pay...

Sen. Kashamu’s demise: Mortals should be kind to the dead – Tinubu

  Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has expressed grief on the sudden death of ex-Ogun Senator...

Obasanjo’s comment on Kashamu: Fayose hits back, says his own end will come too

  Irked by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comment on the death of ex-Senator Buruji Kashamu, immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele...

Ojowo-Ijebu monarch, Banjo, expresses condolences on Kashamu’s demise

  More prominent Nigerians have continued to send condolences to the government and people of Ogun State on the death of ex- Senator...

COVID-19 grant: SERAP cautions World Bank against disbursing $114.28m to Nigeria

  Worried by its perceived lack of frugality and accountability in managing loans and other funds by the authorities in the country, the...

HURIWA hails Justice Minister, Malami’s reforms, initiatives in anti-graft war, judiciary, others

  Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a civil rights advocacy group, has lauded the reforms of the Attorney-General of the Federation...