April 2021

A report published by the Debt Management Office has revealed that the Ogun State Government borrowed ₦58billion as domestic debt in 18 months.

The latest report, which was released on March 15, indicated that Ogun State domestic debt stock was ₦153,490,666,025.15 as of December 30, 2020.

However, the DMO had earlier reported that Ogun was owing a total domestic debt of ₦95,174,172,678.30 as of June 30, 2019, a month after the incumbent Governor Dapo Abiodun government came on board.

The DMO report simply signifies that from June 30, 2019 …

No fewer than 17 people have been reported missing after a collision between a cargo ship and a fishing boat off Indonesia’s main island of Java occurred according to officials.

Fifteen crew of the fishing boat, the Barokah Jaya, were evacuated after Saturday’s crash, but five divers are searching for the remaining 17, Yusuf Latif, the spokesman of the agency, Basarnas, said in a statement on Sunday.

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‘We’re still conducting the search,” Yusuf said, adding that an agency rescue ship had taken the survivors on board.

According to Yusuf, the …

Nigerian soldiers at Bassa village in Ardo-Kola Local Government Area of Taraba State were reported to have killed five persons returning from a wedding ceremony on Friday morning.

The victims identified as Abdulkadir Bello, Tukur Bello, Philip Yakubu, Habu Yarima and Ya’u Misa, were alegedly returning from a wedding ceremony in Garin-Baka around midnight on motorcycles when the soldiers on patrol allegedly opened fire on them.

One of the youth, Isah Umar, who escaped, said he and his friends riding on motorcycles back to their village, Basa, ran into the soldiers who, on sighting the convoy of their motorcycles, opened …

The total number of active COVID-19 cases across the country has dropped to 9,270.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, made the revelation on Friday night while giving update on its official website.

The health agency while confirming 66 fresh cases of the virus said that about 127 patients have also been treated and discharged.

The development brings the total number of recorded cases in the country to 163,063 with 2,058 fatalities while no fewer than 151,835 patients have been successfully treated and discharged from various isolation centres.

The Nigerian Air Force has dismissed claims by Boko Haram that it shot down the missing Alpha jet – NAF 475.

The aircraft went off the radar on Wednesday during an operation around the Sambisa Forest in Borno State.

NAF Director of Public Relations, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet said the footage in circulation could be from a previous incident.

Gabkwet, in a statement on Friday, stressed that there was nothing to prove that the aircraft belonged to NAF.

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The spokesman noted that the lush vegetation in the video …