Category: Update

Halt 5G network deployment in Nigeria, Senate tells FG

    The Senate on Wednesday asked the Federal Government to suspend plans to deploy the 5G network technology in Nigeria till further notice. The red chamber...

COVID-19: Unilorin don cautions FG on vaccination funding

    A Professor of Medicine at the University of Ilorin, Emmanuel Obi Okoro, has cautioned  the federal government not to be in a hurry to expend billions of...

BREAKING: Labour suspends 5 days warning strike in Kaduna

    Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended its five days warning strike in Kaduna State to honour the invitation of the Federal Government tomorrow.  ...

Ibarapa: Group calls for release of 3 OPC members that handed over Wakili to police

    The Europe chapter of the Oodua Progressive Union (OPU), has renewed the call for the unconditional release of three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress...

Supreme Court Judgement validates sacking of LG Chairmen ― Makinde

    Ahead of Saturday’s local government election in Oyo State, Governor Seyi Makinde on Wednesday, said the Supreme Court verdict has validated the sacking...

Senate passes bill to upgrade Yabatech to Federal University

    The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to upgrade the Yaba College of Technology to a Federal University of Technology.     Also passed...

Vendor in police net for unknown offence

    The Delta State Police Command has arrested a Newspaper Vendor in Asaba, Mr Patrick Onwuaha for a yet unknown offence.   Nationnewslead assembled that...

Lagos govt to move burnt Igbosere High Court to Ikoyi

    The Lagos State Government is to move the Igbosere High Court which was razed in October 2020 during the #EndSARS protest to a property located in Ikoyi....

Lagos adds 206 convicts to Sexual Offenders Register

    The Lagos State Ministry of Justice has added the details of 206 persons convicted of sexual offences between April 2020 and April 2021 to the Lagos State...

Senate to begin public hearing on Constitution review May 26

    The Senate says it plans to hold public hearing across the country on review of 1999 Constitution from May 26 to May 27. Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Chairman,...

Senate Move To Upgrade Fedpoffa To A Degree Awarding Institution, Bill Passes Second Reading

  The Senator representing Kwara South Senatorial District, Senator Oyelola Ashiru, today, at the plenary led the bill for an Act to amend the Federal Universities...

Two-week-old baby dies as parents exchange blows in Ondo

    A brawl between a young couple, Ekene and Rose ljokun has led to the untimely death of their two weeks old baby boy in the Akure North council area of Ondo...

Senate proposes 15 years imprisonment for anyone who pays ransom to kidnappers

    The Senate on Wednesday considered a bill that seeks to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or...

Governor fires nurses for joining strike

    Adamant Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai yesterday raised the number of retrenched workers with the sack of all nurses below Grade Level 14. El-Rufai,...

VC warns public against fake recruitment advert by FUOYE

    Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Abayomi Fasina, on Wednesday, advised members of the public to disregard announcement on...

4th Mainland Bridge to gulp $2.5bn now ― Lagos govt

    Lagos State Government has said the construction of the proposed 4th Mainland Bridge is estimated to cost $2.5 billion.   Recall that the state...

Two burnt to death in Ekiti road crash

    Two persons were reportedly burnt to death, while two others sustained injury on Wednesday in a ghastly motor accident that occurred along the old Ado-Iyin...

22 jailed for trafficking children to cocoa farms in Ivory Coast

    Twenty-two people have been jailed for trafficking children to work on Ivory Coast’s lucrative cocoa plantations, police said. Five received jail terms...

EU to reopen borders to fully vaccinated travellers

    EU member states agreed Wednesday to reopen the bloc’s borders to travellers who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, European sources...

Hisbah arrests Kano ‘couple’ for allegedly buying baby for N900,000

    The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested a 40-year-old woman, Salomi Jerome, and her supposed husband, Salomi Igina, for allegedly trafficking a newborn...