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INEC plans to amend electoral act of 2020

INEC plans to amend electoral act of 2020

TVC News TV Interview- Debo Onifade: Mar 05, 2020  

I’m still COVID-19 positive -El-Rufai

I’m still COVID-19 positive -El-Rufai

Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday, said he was still under isolation for testing positive to COVID-19 and is yet to be cleared of the disease. El-Rufai, who also chaired a virtual meeting of the State Executive Council for the first time, since he was diagnosed, said he would personally announce to the…

Gunmen kill nine people in Plateau attack

Gunmen kill nine people in Plateau attack

Gunmen on Wednesday killed nine civilians in an attack on a village in Plateau, said police, in what one politician describe as the latest outburst of intercommunal violence. A police spokesman for Plateau state said the unidentified assailants shot dead residents and burnt 22 houses in the assault on the village of Hura. The bloodshed…

CAN declares one week daily prayers against COVID-19

CAN declares one week daily prayers against COVID-19

Friday Olokor, Abuja The Christian Association of Nigeria has directed all its members nationwide to dedicate 30 minutes each day for the next seven days to praise God in the fight against coronavirus. The organisation said the prayer session should commence with effect from Monday, April 20 to Sunday April 26, 2020. The President of…

FG pays N200bn to offset Gencos’ gas bill

FG pays N200bn to offset Gencos’ gas bill

Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Federal Government has in the past two to three days paid over N200bn for power supply in Nigeria, the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, declared on Wednesday. Also, the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, the umbrella body for Discos, has said the proposed two-month free electricity for…

Infidelity: Husband bathes wife with pepper-laced hot water

Infidelity: Husband bathes wife with pepper-laced hot water

Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo A 27-year-old man, Adeniyi Akinde, has reportedly bathed his wife, Deborah, with hot water laced with pepper, while she was sleeping over suspicion of infidelity. The incident happened on Tuesday around 12.30am in the Oke-Owu area of Modakeke, Osun State, where the couple resides. The victim was said to have been rushed…

Kano records first COVID-19 death

Kano records first COVID-19 death

Four days after it recorded its index case of coronavirus, Kano state has confirmed its first death from the disease. The state ministry of health announced the death in a tweet posted at 11:55pm on Wednesday. Details of the death were not given but the ministry said there were 21 total cases of COVID-19 in…

Revolution in Nigeria: Let’s face reality

Revolution in Nigeria: Let’s face reality

There are many young Nigerians within the country and in the diaspora, who genuinely think that revolution in Nigeria is the only solution to our problems. If their definition of revolution is related to the revolutions that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979, or Libyan Colonel Muammar…