The Government of Ondo State has imposed a total curfew on Ikare Akoko in Akoko North East Local Government Area. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu made the announcement following clashes in the community over a chieftaincy dispute, which has claimed the life of four people. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, said the curfew takes effect from…
The House of Representatives has called for a postponement of the population and housing census, which the National Population Commission plans to carry out this year. The federal lawmakers in the Green Chamber of the National Assembly made the call because of the security situation across the country. In adopting a motion of urgent national importance moved…
Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested thirty suspected internet fraudsters in the Kwara State capital. The EFCC confirmed the arrest in a statement with a long list of names of suspects, who are said to be mostly students. The spokesman for the anti-graft agency said items recovered from…
Sacked Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, has asked for a fresh trial over the murder of George Floyd, which gave birth to the “Black Lives Matters” movement worldwide. Chauvin was last month convicted of all four counts of murder over the death of Floyd, but his legal team have alleged that the trial was not properly done.…
Authorities in the Seychelles are reintroducing Covid-19 restrictions due to the increasing number of new infections. The development comes despite the country attaining sixty percent vaccination of its population, which should have been enough to provide herd immunity. Reports say the country recorded five hundred new cases in three days, adding that one in three of the…
A twenty-five-year-old woman in Mali has given birth to nine babies. Halima Cisse was flown to Morocco by the Malian government to deliver her babies under specialist care. Reports say doctors had detected seven babies in Cisse’s womb during scans, but she surprised them with two additions. Mali’s Health Minister Fanta Siby, confirmed that the babies are…