2023: A kingmaker can also become a king – Tinubu
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has dismissed the calls in some quarters that he should remain a kingmaker instead of nurturing Presidential ambition in 2023. Tinubu stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa Abuja on Monday. According to the APC...
COVID-19: Nigeria records 8 fatalities, 420 new infections
Nigeria recorded eight deaths from the COVID-19 virus and 420 new cases on Monday in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on Tuesday morning. The NCDC said, with the eight fatalities, Nigeria death toll has risen to 3,085. The centre also said that with the new confirmed cases, the infection...
U.S. surgeons transplant pig’s heart into adult human
United States (U.S.) surgeons have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig’s heart into a human patient for the first time. A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease received the organ in Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday, the University of Maryland School of Medicine said in a statement. “This organ transplant demonstrated for the first time that a genetically-modified animal heart can function...
KDSG attracts nearly $3bn investments, pledges to do more – El-rufai
The Kaduna State Government has said that it had attracted about $3bn dollars in domestic and foreign investments and would continue to do more. Governor El-Rufai made this known in Kaduna on Tuesday when he received a delegation led by Alhaji Suleman Aliyu, the President, Kaduna chamber of commerce, industry mines, and Agriculture at the government house on a courtesy...
Dance queen, Kaffy, confirms divorce, says ‘I was frustrated’
Popular dance queen and instructor, Kaffy, has announced that her union with Joseph Ameh, a music director and drummer, is over. The two entertainment personalities got married on June 2, 2012, and have two children together. Kaffy confirmed that her marriage hits the rock in the latest episode of her podcast on her verified Instagram page. Recall that there had been rumours...
Ex-Interim President, Ernest Shonekan, dies at 85
The Head of the Interim National Government (ING) of Nigeria, Chief Ernest Shonekan, is dead. Shonekan, who succeeded former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, died in Lagos at the age of 85. The ING was put in place by the Babangida-led military junta in the aftermath of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election acclaimed to have been won by the...
Buni approves conditional lifting of motorcycle usage in 10 LGAs
Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe on Monday approved the conditional lifting of ban on the use of motorcycles in 10 of the 17 local government areas (LGAs) of the state. This is contained in a statement issued by the governor’s Special Adviser on Security Affairs, Brig.- Gen. Dahiru Abdulsalam (retired), in Damaturu. The state had imposed a ban on the...
Army arrests soldier, probes assault on traffic wardens
The Nigerian Army has arrested one soldier in connection with the assault on two traffic wardens in Ibadan while immediate investigation to identify and arrest the rest of the culprits has started. Some men in military uniform suspected to be soldiers had appeared in a viral video wherein two traffic wardens were assaulted in Ibadan, Oyo State. The incident, which has...
Guterres reappoints Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed as UN deputy secretary-general
Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed has been re-appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations for another five years. UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, on Monday, formalised his prior announcement on Mohammed. In delegating development coordination to Mohammed, the secretary-general set in motion the most ambitious reform in the history of the UN development system. Guterres, on June 18, 2021, took the oath of office...
Buni glad with Gashua Modern Market project
Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has expressed satisfaction with the quality and pace of work at the Gashua Modern Market. Buni stated this while inspecting the progress of the market project in Gashua on Monday. The governor said the project would soon be commissioned, assuring that the stalls and stores will be allocated directly to traders. “There would be no middlemen...
