Author: Ishaq

Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz, who was hospitalised with coronavirus, died on Saturday at the age of 76, his son announced.

The Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 19, 2020 secured the convictions of two FBI suspects and four others before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Warri, Delta State for various offences bordering on impersonation, Internet fraud and operating a vessel within Nigerian Waters without due registration and licence by appropriate authority.

Four government ministers are among the latest cases of coronavirus in Burkina Faso where two new deaths were reported by the country’s health emergency response operations centre on Saturday.

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Saturday, the latest in a series of such launches by Pyongyang as the world struggles with the coronavirus pandemic.

The Italian Coronavirus [COVID-19] index case in Nigeria has been discharged after testing negative.

Nigeria is not one of the first 100 happiest countries in the world, according to the 2020 World Happiness Report released on Friday.

The Catholic Church on Friday granted forgiveness — under certain conditions — for the sins of the faithful struck by the novel coronavirus.

His country has highest number of imams and pastors as marriage counsellors yet has the highest incidence of divorce.

Unlike in the past during which Muslims were instrumental in astronomy, geometry, mathematics and many more theories, contemporary Muslims are far left behind in science and technology.

The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned one Ope Saraki, a Cousin of the immediate past President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki on two count charges bordering on contract scam to the tune of Two Hundred and Twenty Million Naira (N220, 000, 000).

Today, Nigeria is not secured. It is suicidal to travel in the day along Kaduna-Abuja or Birnin Gwari road. Most people in Zamfara and Katsina have become refugees due to activities of bandits. People pass through Jos at personal risk. In Kaduna kidnappers pick their victims on the streets.

The Arewa Youth Assembly has lamented over the long absence of Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State and called for his resignation.

Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Wednesday paraded three persons suspected to be members of a robbery gang that killed a pregnant woman in Apo on January 26.

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday mulled stoppage of Muslim’s Friday Juma’at and Christian’s Sunday services in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.

In a statement issued on Wednesday by the Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, some of their logistics supplies were destroyed in the process.

The deceased reportedly jumped to her death from the balcony of the third floor of a four-storey building located at No 18 Ilodibe Street, Awada.

The directive, which came from the NYSC headquarters in Abuja early Wednesday morning disrupted the orientation camp of the 2020 Batch A Stream 1, across the 37 centres in the country.

The ‘Game of Thrones’ actor Kristofer Hivju, who played the role of Tormund, has tested positive for the new coronavirus and is doing well, the Norwegian said in an Instagram post.

Three candidates after writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been kidnapped in Kaduna by bandits.

“The current debt situation in Nigeria needs to be properly managed and every borrowed Naira or Dollar, carefully deployed, especially in the face of the continued dependence of the nation’s economy on exported crude oil, with its usual price volatility.

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed has announced that the federal government has suspended its $22.7bn external borrowing plan which drew controversy weeks ago.