Month: January 2021

Portuguese Health Worker Dies Two Days After Receiving Pfizer Covid Vaccine

Portuguese Health authorities are investigating the sudden death of a health worker who was found dead two days after receiving the COVID vaccine. The health worker, identified as Sonia Acevedo aged 41, worked in the paediatrics department at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in Porto. She was said to have received the vaccine shot on…

Yuletide: CBA Foundation Donates Food Items, Cash Gifts To Widows In Anambra

As part of the New Year celebration, the Chinwe Bode-Akinwande (CBA) Foundation, a non-governmental organization in Nigeria, has put smiles on faces of some widows in Nnewi, Anambra State. The event, which was held on Friday, January 1, 2021 had excited widows numbering over 55 going home with food-items and financial empowerment. Speaking at the…

Lasaco Meets The Recapitilisation Deadline

Lasaco Assurance Plc, under the new leadership of Chief Mrs Teju Philips, has scaled the first hurdle of the recapitalisation exercise for insurance and reinsurance companies mulled by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) for the strengthening of the financial bases of underwriters. The Company met the 31st December 2020, deadline given to underwriters to recapitalise…

Prominent Nigerians Mourns Ex-UNILAG VC, Prof Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe

Nigerians from every nook and cranny have continued to mourn the death of former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe. Prof. Ibidapo-Obe aged 71 reportedly died from COVID-19 complications on Sunday, January 3. The professor who emerged the overall best graduating student of the University of Lagos in 1971 was…

Lagos Makes U-Turn, Orders All Schools To Resume January 18

The Lagos state government has reversed its earlier decision of shutting down schools indefinitely by announcing the reopening of all public and private schools in the state for the second term of 2020/21 academic session from Monday, January 18, 2021. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, who revealed this on Monday, stated that the…

Ogun Suspends Commissioner over Alleged Sexual Harassment

The Governor of Ogun State Dapo Abiodun has suspended the Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, from office pending the conclusion of an independent investigation into an allegation of sexual harassment of a 16-year old Barakat Mayowa Melojuekun. Barakat Melojuekun who is secondary school final year student had accused Abudu-Balogun of subjecting her to sexual…

Kwara Governor Dissolves Cabinet

The Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman Abdulrasaq, has dissolved the members of his cabinet in just a year after they were inaugurated into office. In a statement released late Sunday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, the cabinet had been relieved with effect from December 31, 2020, though the Secretary to…

TheStreetJournal named Rev. Mathew Hassan Kukah as Man of The Year

An online newspaper (thestreetjournal.org) has named Reverend Father Mathew Hassan Kukah, the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto as the Man of the Year 2020. In an era where clergymen, with the exception of a few, are not afraid to speak the truth boldly, either to the political, religious or social circles, this…

Mouka Celebrates First Babies of the Year in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, with Freebies

Mouka, Nigeria’s foremost manufacturer of mattresses and other bedding products, celebrates families with babies born on New Year’s day, in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States in furtherance of its commitment of adding value to life. Mouka presented gifts to mothers of the first babies at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Olabisi Onabanjo University…