A security expert has faulted the claim by the Nigerian Army that blank bullets fired from a rifle cannot cause bodily harm. The Commander of the Eighty-One Division Military Intelligence Brigade; Brigadier-General AHMED TAIWO, made the claim in a presentation to the Lagos State Judicial Panel investigating the shooting of EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate. A…
Soldiers in Kaduna State have rescued one persons who was kidnapped by gunmen along the Kaduna-Abuja Road on Sunday. This was confirmed by the Kaduna State Government based on information received from the Defense Headquarters “Operation Thunder Strike”. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, SAMUEL ARUWAN, said the victims were kidnapped around Akilubu-Gidan Busa axis…
The National Bureau of Statistics has announced that inflation rose to fourteen point two-three percent last month of October. In it Consumer Price Index Report of October 2020, the NBS said the new inflation increased by zero point five-two percent from thirteen point seven-one percent in September. The NBS report also noted that the food index increased…
The National Examinations Council, NECO, has released the results of 2020-2021 National Common Entrance Examination. NECO says candidates who passed the examination with a minimum of sixty-six marks are twenty-four thousand, four hundred and sixteen. The number of candidates who passed the National Common Entrance examination is less than half of over seventy-five thousand that sat for…
On the foreign scene; another drugs company in the United States has announced a new Covid-19 vaccine, with nearly ninety-five percent success rate. The trial involved thirty thousand people in the US, with half being given two doses of the vaccine, four weeks apart. The report by the company known as Moderna comes after Pfizer announced the…
The Federal Government has taken steps to respond to the closure of businesses belonging to Nigerians in Ghana. ABIKE DABIRI-EREWA, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, said the response would be led by at least three federal ministries. DABIRI-EREWA said the move followed a petition by seven hundred and fifty-three Nigerian traders,…