NECO registrar Godswill Obioma was not shot dead. Truetells Nigeria earlier reported that the Registrar of National Examinations Council, NECO, Prof. Godswill Obioma is dead. Reacting to his death and the rumors of the NECO Boss being shot dead in his residence, the Director, Human resources of the NECO, Abdul Mustapha confirmed the death…
Another pandemic 102 years ago: Volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium By Abankula In 1918, a pandemic virus, called the Spanish flu blew across the world like the current coronavirus and killed at least 50 million people. In Nigeria, then under colonial rule, an estimated…
Five people have been killed in Ogun State following the outbreak of cholera in some parts of Abeokuta. The Permanent Secretary at the state Ministry of Health, Adesanya Ayinde, confirmed this to reporters on Friday at the ministry in the state capital. Ayinde disclosed that the number of those killed was part of the 12…
A family of four have been burnt to death in Makurdi, the Benue state capital. Mr Sekegh Akaa, a substantive Director and Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology, his wife and two children were killed by the inferno on Sunday night. The fire, which spread to three other apartments, caused massive destruction running…
Two persons are feared killed in a multiple-car crash on the Otedola Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the south-west region of the country. The accident, which occurred on Wednesday morning, is said to involve a containerised truck and several cars. it was gathered that the incident involved a high-capacity bus on the…
Armed men stormed a mosque in the volatile north of Burkina Faso as worshippers were at prayer, killing 16 people and sending residents fleeing, security sources and locals said Saturday. The attack on the Grand Mosque in the town of Salmossi on Friday evening underscores the difficulties faced by the country in its battle against jihadists. One…
