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For more than one year since the outbreak of the pandemic in Nigeria, COVID-19 death toll in the country has reached 1,710 from 36 states including Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed. This is as the country recorded eight new deaths  from the ravaging virus on Thursday. On new confirmed infections, NCDC has confirmed 938, bringing the overall in the country to 143,516. NCDC tweeted ”On the 11th of February 2021, 938 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.” According to the public health agency, ”The 938 new cases are reported from 20…

A total of 110 former National Youth Service corps members got automatic jobs into Federal Civil Service and scholarships to pursue their post-graduate studies up to the doctoral level in any university in Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari, who made this known at the virtual 2018 to 2019 President’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) honours award ceremony held at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja, on Thursday, also announced cash rewards for the ex-corps members. Buhari directed the relevant government agencies to ensure timely implementation of all the incentives for the award recipients. The president also urged the honourees to sustain…

The German giants, Bayern Munich trounced Tigres 1-0 in the FIFA Club World Cup final to cart home another prestigious cup on Thursday. CBS Sports reports that Bayern defeated the underdog Liga MX side after a thrilling back-and-forth battle between the two sides. The Bundesliga club and reigning Champions League winners found the breakthrough in the 59th minute on a goal from Benjamin Pavard. The trophy for Bayern is their sixth in eight months as they’ve also captured the Champions League, Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, DFL-Super Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. A fast-paced first half between the two sides led to…

The first civilian Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, is dead. ARISE NEWS reported that he died in the early hours of Thursday at the age of 91. Jakande was a frontline journalist and became governor of Lagos State in Nigeria from 1979 to 1983. He later became Minister of Works under the Sani Abacha military regime (1993–98). His administration as governor of Lagos state is still revered for the massive infrastructural development recorded during his four-year stint especially the numerous Jakande Estates built across many local governments in the State as well as sterling investment in schools. Jakande…

President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide has jeered at a former Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Fakoye over his rumoured defection to All Progressives Congress, APC. Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant on New Media to President Buhari on Wednesday, February 10, tweeted, ”They said he is now considering to join the POLITICAL WING OF BOKO HARAM, I do hope he’s successfully completed the required training, so he could be decorated as one of the great commanders of the wing. And when successfully joined, he will be one of the recognized ‘murderers.” This is because Fani-Kayode had tweeted on August 5, 2014 ”The APC…

The trial of some staffers and students of Deeper Life High School, Uyo campus accused of 3exual abuse, starvation, and negligence is to start anew. Recall that the parents of Don Davis Archibong, an 11-year-old student of the school had instituted the lawsuit against the staffers and students over alleged abuse. This is as Don Davis has become a brand ambassador to Resolution Technologies. The prosecuting counsel, David Okokon who was not in court Wednesday because his flight from Abuja was delayed, told Channels Television in a telephone conversation. According to him, as a result of the transfer of the former…

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have allegedly abducted three officers of the Nigeria Customs Services in Yobe State. The Nation reports that the insurgents abducted the officers during an attack on Geidam town on Wednesday, February 10. “Honestly, we are all in a very sad mood with what happened to our colleagues in Geidam. We are with them in prayers,” a custom officer spoke with our correspondent in confidence. A spokesperson of Yobe state police command, Dungus Abdulkarim, refused to comment on the abduction, but he had confirmed the attack in Giedam. “My men on the ground informed me that the…

The Imo State Police Command has been thrown into mourning following the purported death of one of its officers. A police inspector simply identified as one Umoh at the Command was said to have allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday, February 10. According to reports, the inspector was a visiting cop who was at the area command on special duty. The late Umoh was said to have complained of being sick after returning from an assignment. He allegedly went into one of the rooms in the command and shot himself dead. “Mobile officers came back and one of them went to one…

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria in February 2020, the country’s confirmed cases have peaked 142,578, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has chronicled. This is as the country recorded 1,131 new cases and eight deaths on Wednesday. NCDC tweeted on Wednesday ”On the 10th of February 2021, 1131 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. According to the public health agency,  ”The 1131 new cases are reported from 22 states- Lagos (297), FCT (194), Kaduna (83), Kano (59), Oyo (58), Taraba (53), Imo (52), Osun (47), Plateau (45). Others are Edo (43), Akwa Ibom (42), Rivers…

Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has expressed concern over the impact of gas flaring and oil spill in the Niger Delta communities. The President of MOSOP, Mr Fegalo Nsuke, an environmental expert and human rights activist, expressed this concern on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. Nsuke attributed the cause of environmental pollution in the region to sabotage by stakeholders and poor government’s response to the plight of the people of the region. In particular, he expressed worry over continued gas flaring by the operating oil companies in Rivers State. “It has become necessary for relevant…