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Lagos State and Federal Capital Territory in Nigeria are leading in the rising COVID-19 cases. In the latest figure dished out by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Thursday, Lagos and FCT recorded 459 and 145 cases respectively. NCDC tweeted “On the 17th of December 2020, 1,145 new confirmed cases and 1 death were recorded in Nigeria. “The 1,145 new cases are reported from 24 states- Lagos (459), FCT (145), Kaduna (138), Plateau (80), Katsina (70), Gombe (52), Niger (31), Kano (23), Bayelsa (21), Bauchi (18), Ondo (18), Rivers (17), Ogun (12), Oyo (12), Edo (8), Nasarawa (8), Ebonyi (7),…

Five best performing tertiary institutions in Nigeria are to receive N375 million, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board announced on Thursday. Each of the universities will take home N75 million. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, in his address at JAMB’s Second Edition of the National Tertiary Admissions Performance Merit Award for 2019 in Abuja, applauded the efforts of the board towards ensuring excellence in the country’s tertiary institutions. He said, “In 2019, JAMB at the first edition of the programme, supported the tertiary institutions with N125m and this year, the board is supporting the sector with N375m. “I am…

Robert Lewandowski won the Best FIFA Men’s Player award on Thursday night during a virtual ceremony. The Polish and Bayern Munich striker, 32, who enjoyed an historic treble-winning season with his club, winning the Champions League, the Bundesliga, and the German Cup in 2020, broke up Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi’s dominance to scoop the award. He also scored 55 goals in just 47 games last season and finished as the top scorer in the league, cup, and Champions League FIFA president Gianni Infantino showed personally to hand over the award, which recognised achievements between July 2019 and October 2020,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the release of 344 kidnapped students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, describing their safe return as a big relief to their families, the entire country and international community. According to presidential spokesman Garba Shehu, President Buhari expressed the nation’s appreciation for the steps taken by all involved to make their release possible. President Buhari specifically cited what he called the “spirit of partnership and the collaborative efforts of the government of Katsina, Zamfara and military leading to the release.’’ He commended the nation’s intelligence agencies, the military and police force for providing the…

The 340 students abducted by bandits at the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State, Thursday, regained freedom. The boys were released at about 2.20 pm on Thursday afternoon after spending six nights in captivity, according to reports by TVC NEWS at 10 p.m. The students were abducted by the terrorist group in their dormitories on Friday, December 11 at 9.45 p.m. Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari who confirmed this Thursday, said the students were initially held hostage in the forest in Zamfara State since their abduction. He, however, said they were released after much negotiations with their abductors,…

At last, the Federal Executive Council has given approval for the commencement of business in Ibom Deep seaport. Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Ini Ememobong, who stated this in a statement on Wednesday, said the approval came on the heels of the vigorous push by the Udom Emmanuel administration for the actualization of this long awaited vision. The project was initiated by Victor Attah administrations, executed by Godswill Akpabio administration and pursued by Udom Emmanuel administration. Speaking to newsmen on implications of the latest and final approval for the Ibom Deep Seaport, the Commissioner for Economic Development and…

COVID-19 pandemic, Wednesday, swept across 21 Nigerian states including Federal Capital Territory, peaking to an all-high 930 new cases, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed. Of the number, Lagos was leading the pandemic chart with 279 followed by FCT and Plateau State with 179 and 62 cases respectively. “On the 16th of December 2020, 930 new confirmed cases were recorded in Nigeria. The 930 new cases are reported from 22 states- Lagos (279), FCT (179), Plateau (62), Kaduna (54), Kano (52), Katsina (52), Imo (42), Jigawa (42), Rivers (38), Kwara (30), Nasarawa (19), Yobe (15), Ogun (13), Borno (10), Oyo…

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, is optimistic that Nigerians would receive the COVID19 vaccine by the end of January 2021. Ehanire stated this during the 28th Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He told the council that a technical working group in the Ministry of Health is working on which vaccine will best suit Nigeria. Speaking to state house correspondents after the meeting, Ehanire said “The world health organization and GAVI would be able to get a reserve for some other countries who themselves are…

A total of N601.110 billion revenue for November 2020 has been shared among the Federal, states and local government Councils and agencies, Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has announced. A statement issued after the FAAC meeting for December 2020 held at the Federal Ministry of Finance headquarters, Abuja presided over by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Alhaji Aliyu Ahmed announced the figure on Wednesday. The total distributable revenue of N601.110 billion comprised statutory revenue of N436.457 billion; Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N156.786 billion and augmentation of N7.867 billion from the Forex Equalisation revenue. The gross statutory…

Bitcoin surpassed $20,000 for the first time, another milestone in what’s been an eye-popping rally for the controversial digital asset this year. The world’s largest cryptocurrency rose as much as 3.8% to $20,154 on Wednesday, vindicating forecasts that were scoffed at months ago and leading to even higher prognostications. Bitcoin has almost tripled this year. “We have a new line in the sand and the focus shifts to the next round number of $30,000,” said Antoni Trenchev, co-founder and managing partner of Nexo, a crypto lender. This “is the start of a new chapter for Bitcoin.  It’s a narrative the…