Donald Trump, President of the USA, who also doubles as the Republican candidate for the November 3, 2020 Presidential election, will go head-to-head in three debates in the coming weeks with Joe Biden, candidate of the Democrats. The first presidential debate between Trump and Biden kicks off tonight at 9pm ET (2am on Wednesday morning…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Monday said it has discovered N2.67 billion meant for school feeding programme during the lockdown paid into personal bank accounts. The Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, revealed this in his keynote address at the second National Summit on Diminishing Corruption with the theme:…
The Federal Government has declared Thursday, October 1, 2020, as a public holiday to celebrate Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration, congratulated all Nigerians on the celebration of the country’s Diamond Jubilee while also assuring of government’s commitment to the socio-economic transformation of the country. This was…
A man identified as Tunde Martins, who defrauded Diamond Bank of N30 million, has been jailed on Monday for 7 years by Justice Josephine Oyefeso of the Lagos State High Court Igbosere, Lagos The convict had obtained the said sum as a loan from Diamond Bank Plc, with a forged Certificate of Occupancy, C of…
The number of COVID-19 deaths exceeded one million across the globe on September 28, 2020, according to a tally of cases maintained by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. This comes about nine months since the first death linked to the virus was reported on January in China. According to Johns Hopkins University, which has…