Japan to ban foreign arrivals due to Omicron variant
Japan on Monday said it would ban all new foreign arrivals from Tuesday, Kyodo news agency reported. The Japanese government had earlier said it was considering reviving a blanket ban on foreign arrivals due to concerns regarding the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Japan’s border restrictions were eased in early November, allowing students, business people and technical interns into the...
DAKUKU PETERSIDE: A generation ambushed by drugs
By DAKUKU PETERSIDE Nelson Mandela, the legendary African anti-apartheid fighter, said the future belongs to the youth, but Barak Obama qualified it by saying that the future belongs to young people with education and the imagination to create. None of them could foresee that drug could ambush the youth and threaten the future. This reality stares us in the face...
EHICHIOYA EZOMON: Lagos #EndSARS report and FG’s response
By EHICHIOYA EZOMON Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, is a stickler for his beliefs, who doesn't shirk his responsibility of promoting and defending the interests of the government and all its organs. Once he takes a position on any issue or situation, no matter how unsavoury, he maintains it to the end, and leaves no inch of space for...
IKE ABONYI: APC, PDP Jaga Jaga journey to 2023
By IKE ABONYI If a party stands for nothing but re-election, it indeed stands for nothing. ––William F. Weld It is a popular notion that democracy is good and is, indeed, the best form of government. Nigeria has practised democracy for consecutive 22 years since 1999 with little to show for it. What we are seeing, instead, does not tally with the...
TUNDE ODESOLA: The truth lie, Mohammed cannot kill
TUNDE ODESOLA In light or in darkness, a cockroach is a cockroach; smelly and repulsive. What to do to rid the cockroach of its nuisance? Whack it to death! The lethargic regime of the retired General Muhammadu Buhari heeded this homily on October 20, 2020, when it crushed to death, like cockroaches, innocent Nigerian youths at the Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos...
Two soldiers die as troops kill terrorists, foil attack on military base
Troops of Joint Task Force (North-East), Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have annihilated several Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in an encounter at Forward Operating Base, Gajiram Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State on Sunday. Sadly, two gallant soldiers paid the supreme price during the encounter. Director Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said the troops of...
Eight fleeing inmates arrested after bandits attacked Jos prison
Eight of the inmates who had earlier escaped during the attack on the Jos Correctional Centre by gunmen on Sunday had been rearrested. Gunmen said to be bandits had on Sunday evening invaded the prison yard and some of the inmates escaped from the facility. The bandits were said to have pretended to be on a visit before they opened fire...
Ailing Clem Ohameze in tears as prophet gifts him N8m for surgery
Veteran Nollywood actor, Clem Ohameze, on Sunday shed tears as he received a cash gift of N8 million from Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin of Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry, Warri for his surgery. Ohameze, who recently announced that he is set to undergo a critical surgery to fix his cervical vertebrae and regain control of his limbs which had been affected...
Pirates attack Bayelsa oil facilities, kill 3, abduct 7 workers
Gunmen, suspected to be sea pirates, in the early hours of Sunday attacked two oil installations, killing three and abducting seven oil workers in Bayelsa. The pirates ambushed their unsuspecting victims in Okoroma and Ogbokiri-Akassa communities of Nembe and Brass Local Government areas of Bayelsa. Sources close to the affected oilfields said the gunmen reportedly shot dead two staff of the...
Updated: Jos prison under attack
The Jos Correctional Centre is currently under heavy attack by suspected bandits. Sound of sporadic gun shots is everywhere. The correction Centre is located close to the Plateau State Police Command headquarters and state office of the Department of State Services (DSS). The bandits were said to have pretended to be on a visit before they opened fire on reaching the gate...
