Tony Anenih, Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has stated that President Goodluck Jonathan will run in the 2015 presidential election. The renowned politician said the President will contest at the polls on the platform of PDP. “I want the National Chairman [of the PDP] to go home with a…
Commandant General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ade Abolurin, has warned miscreants planning to foment during the August 9, 2014, governorship election in Osun State to have a rethink as the Corps will not tolerate anyone thinking of truncating the electoral process. The NSCDC boss reiterated that irrespective of political affinity, all…
A Nigerian nurse who was among those that treated the Liberian infected with the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, has died. Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, confirmed the development. “Yesterday (Tuesday), 5th August, 2014, the first known Nigerian to die of the EVD was recorded, and…
Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has revealed that seven cases of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, have been confirmed in Nigeria. The Minister, in a statement issued on Wednesday, disclosed that, “The first one was the index case-the imported case from Liberia of which the victim is now late,” adding that on Tuesday, August…
Punch reports that two military officers lost their lives at a club in Lagos over a woman. The incident reportedly occurred on Sunday, but the police were able to bring the situation under control when a distress call was put to them by a concerned citizen in the area. “There was confusion on Sunday morning…