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FG approves N8.49bn for COVID-19 items to strengthen NCDC testing and diagnostic capacities

  The Federal Government on Wednesday approved N8.49 billion for the procurement of 12 items to enhance the testing and diaégnostic capacities of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Grief-stricken Ogun Gov. Abiodun, ex-Gov. Daniel mourn Kashamu

  Ogun Gov. Dapo Abiodun says he is terrified by the passing on of ex-Senator Buruji Kashamu on Saturday in Lagos just as...

Gov. Obaseki’s siege on Edo legislature, gravest assault on constitutional democracy — Tinubu

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has blasted Governor Godwin Obaseki for the theatrical manner of overrunning the legislative...

Ize-Iyamu to Gov. Obaseki: We have seized legislative power from you

  The Edo State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has declared that the party had wrested the...

Naming rail station after Jonathan a misnomer, demeaning, says Edwin Clark

The Federal Government’s naming of the railway complex in Agbor, Delta State, after former President Goodluck Jonathan,is nothing but an insult, elder statesman and...

COVID-19: Governors not enforcing protocols to flatten pandemic curve,  PTF tells Buhari

  The Chairman of Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic and  Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, says the...

Breaking: 10 lives lost in Badagry-bound boat accident

  No fewer than 10 passengers lost their lives when the boat ferrying them from Lagos to Badagry capsized while three others are...

Patriach of Afenifere family, Pa Ayo Fasanmi, dies at 94

  Nonagenarian Senator Ayo Fasanmi, one of the oldest loyalists of the sage, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and patriarch of Afenifere, the...