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Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern on Monday announced that New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland would remain under COVID-19 restrictions for at least another two weeks. The city which has a population of about 1.7 million, has been under strict restrictions after a single case was detected on Aug. 18. While the number of cases in the

Oluwasun Adeyemo, a 200-level student in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Ibadan, oyo, has died as a result of an injury she sustained when she was hit by a car on Sunday. The incident occurred along the UI-Sango Road on Sunday. The death of the student is coming few hours after a

A Kenyan court on Monday allowed police to hold the husband of long-distance runner Agnes Tirop for 20 days over her killing, the KTN News channel reported. Tirop’s husband Ibrahim Rotich was arraigned on suspicion of murder before the court in the Rift Valley town of Iten, close to the home they shared. Police told

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has reviewed, re-computed and paid over N7 billion to 24,000 pensioners in the ongoing computation exercise. Executive secretary of PTAD, Dr Chioma Ejikeme, disclosed this in Ilorin, Kwara State during a-two day stakeholders’ meeting for pensioners in the north-central region. Reeling out the achievements of the agency, Ejikeme said:

The Kogi State government on Sunday dared the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to make public, the report of its investigations on the purported misappropriation of the N20 billion bailout secured from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The commission in August alleged that the loan which was domiciled in Sterling Bank had been

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Sunday the government and opposition co-chairs of the Syrian Constitutional Committee had agreed to draft a new constitution. The drafting committee, comprising 45 representatives of Syria’s government, opposition and civil society, has the mandate to draw up a new basic law leading to U.N.-supervised elections. Special

Mr Gbenga Elegbeleye, the Chairman of the National Committee for Osun Congress of the All Progressives Congress(APC) has described the parallel congress conducted in the state by supporters of former Governor Rauf Aregbesola on Saturday as a mere funeral ceremony. Elegbeleye said at a news conference on Sunday at the APC’s secretariat in Osogbo that

The Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Moh Lukman, has chided the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Ebun-olu Adegboruwa SAN, for reducing to politics and legality, the issues raised by President Muhammadu Buhari, on measure to tackle the spread of Coronavirus pandemic. Salisu Mohd Lukman, Director General of the

The results of Saturday’s congress of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State ended with a predictable outcome, as Mr Emeka Beke, an ally of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, emerged as the new party chairman in the state. Meanwhile, from the opposition camp, Golden Chioma, who is loyal to the Magnus Abe faction