The Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, has announced the immediate suspension of tinted vehicle windscreen permits in Nigeria. Baba made the announcement during a meeting with senior police officers, including commissioners and DIGs from across Nigeria on Monday. While making the announcement, the IGP reiterated that roadblocks remained prohibited inContinue Reading
The federal government has given a condition to lift its indefinite suspension on Twitter in Nigeria. DAILY POST reports that Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Foreign Affairs, made this known to newsmen at a meeting with some envoys on Monday. Onyeama said that Twitter’s operations in Nigeria will be restored onlyContinue Reading
Nigeria’s total merchandise trade increased to N9.76 trillion in the first quarter of the year, representing 6.99 per cent rise over the N9.12 trillion in the preceding quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stated on Monday. This also represented 14.13 per cent increase compared to N8.55 trillion recorded inContinue Reading
Olusegun Bamgbose, National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance (CAGG) has called on the leadership of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) and family of the departed church leader, Temitope Balogun Joshua, to bury the cleric on June 12. Bamgbose also described the death of Joshua as shocking andContinue Reading
Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said anyone arrested for using Virtual Private Network to access Twitter in Nigeria will end up being celebrated. The Federal Government last week suspended the operations of Twitter in Nigeria citing what it described as “the persistent use of the platform for activities thatContinue Reading
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have welcomed their second child – a baby daughter named Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Prince Harry and Meghan announced that the infant, a first sibling for Archie, was born on Friday in California. Lili is named after her great-grandmother the Queen – who was affectionately nicknamed Lilibet by her family –Continue Reading
Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has called for people vaccinated against coronavirus to be allowed greater freedom than the un-vaccinated both in the UK and when traveling abroad. The former prime minister said discriminating between the two would mean fewer restrictions both at home and abroad and provide “a powerful incentive”Continue Reading
Temitope Balogun Joshua, a frontline Nigerian preacher and televangelist, has died, family sources told Peoples Gazette. Mr Joshua, the founder of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), died in Lagos on Saturday evening shortly after concluding a programme at his church, The Gazette learnt from family sources who didContinue Reading
Ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo), has “reluctantly” accepted the outcome of the consultative meeting between stakeholders of the Niger Delta and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio. This is coming hours to the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued by the Niger Delta warlord, Tompolo, last Sunday.Continue Reading
People who have had the Pfizer-BioNTech jab have lower antibody levels against the Indian Covid variant than those against other strains in the UK, new data suggests. The study also indicates that the level of antibodies against the strain lowers with increasing age and that they decline over time. ResearchersContinue Reading
