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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that eating garlic and regularly rinsing nose with saline solution will not guard against coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV). Information obtained from WHO’s website on Monday dispelled various myths and rumours surrounding the 2019-nCoV that could potentially harm the public’s health. WHO refuted some of the myths and rumours, noting that garlic was a healthy food that may have some antimicrobial properties. “However, there is no evidence from the current outbreak that eating garlic has protected people from 2019-nCoV,” it said. Also, it noted that there was no evidence that regularly rinsing the nose with saline…

President Muhammadu Buhari and leadership of the National Assembly (NASS) on Monday in Abuja expressed serious concern over security challenges facing the country and agreed to do all they could to tackle the problems. Senate President Ahmad Lawan confirmed this development to State House correspondents at the end of a closed door meeting between the president and the leadership of the NASS. He said the meeting discussed all issues of security including the performances of the security agencies in addressing the menace of insurgency, banditry and kidnapping in the country. He said: “ We met with Mr. President over the…

A former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo, Mr Blessing Agbomhere, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has zero chances of winning any election in the state. Agbomhere, who contested Etsako Federal Constituency of Edo in 2019 under the platform of PDP, but recently returned to the APC, stated this in an interview with NAN, on Sunday in Abuja. Agbomhere said in spite the internal crisis in APC Edo, it would be difficult for PDP to defeat APC in the state, adding that APC in Edo remained formidable, stable and a party to beat. “Today what…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, on Monday, February 3, 2020 arraigned one Justice Chibuike Watts before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos on a two-count charge, bordering  on obtaining money by false pretence and stealing to the tune of N960,000 (Nine Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira). One of the counts  reads: “That you, Justice Chibuike Watts, on or about the 29th of November 2019, in Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division, with intent to defraud, induced Leila Ughe Ogbeide to transfer the sum of N960,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira) into…

A Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi, presided over by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon, on Monday declared the federal government policy, plan or proclamation to establish RUGA Settlement and cattle colonies in Benue state as unwarranted, unlawful and unconstitutional. RUGA which has been suspended by the Federal Government is different from the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) conceived and implemented by the Vice President and the 36 governors at the National Economic Council (NEC). Delivering judgement in the suit filed by Benue Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Benue State, Barrister Michael Gusa against the Attorney General of the Federation, Federal…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on February 3, 2020, arraigned a former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Nicholas Mutu Ebomo, Airworld Technologies LTD, Oyien Homes Limited, and one Blessing Mutu (now at large) before Justice F. O. G. Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, Abuja on an 11-count charge for alleged fraud and abuse of office. One of the charges reads: “That you, Hon. Nicholas Mutu Ebomo (m) whilst being the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission, between August 2014 and August 2016…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is an ongoing deliberate and comprehensive consolidation of the security situation in the country including plans to recruit more troops and officers to beef up the personnel of security agencies in order to contain the threats and security concerns in the land. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Monday when he received, on a courtesy visit to the Presidential Villa, clergymen from the Northern part of Nigeria under the auspices of the Arewa Pastors Forum for Peace. Speaking on how the Federal Government is managing the security concerns across the country, the Vice President assured…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office has arrested a Senior Official of the Kwara State Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Olajumoke Rhoda Oyawoye for allegedly defrauding job seekers under the guise of helping them to secure employment in the Civil Service both at the Federal and State levels. Oyawoye, a level 14 Officer with the Kwara State Ministry of Finance allegedly received various sums amounting to about N3 million from her victims and went ahead to offer them fake appointment letters. Her journey to infamy began when the Commission received two separate petitions alleging her involvement in…

The Edo State Government has demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution of national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, accusing him of constantly creating security breaches in the state and holding rallies in defiance of orders. The government said the former Governor has failed to obey lawful orders both by the state government and the Inspector General of Police and had held rallies in different parts of the state. Deputy Governor Phillip Shuaibu told newsmen in Abuja that Oshiomhole was not above the law and nobody disobeyed his directives when he was governor. While denying betraying…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that the National Assembly is open to suggestions from Nigerians on the best ways to tackle the menace of hate speech and fake news. Lawan stated this on Monday in an address delivered to declare open a Town-hall meeting on the Hate Speech and Social Media bills organized by the Daar Communications in Abuja. The Senate President said there is need to address the challenge of hate speech and fake news in the Nigerian society. “We are here today because of some of these challenges, which is the challenge of hate speech and fake…