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Heavy rainfall has disrupted the ongoing election process in Ijebu area of Owo Local Government of Ondo State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN reports that the rain destroyed some election materials with the voting booths in some polling thoroughly soaked, while staff of INEC took refuge and struggled to secure the materials. The voters also scampered to various directions to take shelter from the rain. Buhari Vows To End Police Brutality NAN reports that voting later commenced with security personnel keeping vigil at all polling units around the area. At polling unit 002 in Ward 5, Ijebu-Owo…

England and Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has become an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The footballer, 22, campaigned for the government to allow about 1.3 million children to claim free school meal vouchers in England’s summer holidays during the coronavirus pandemic. Rashford, who has asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson to extend that scheme, said the MBE was a “nice moment”. Chelsea’s Edouard Mendy Injured On Senegal Duty Great North Run founder Brendan Foster has received a knighthood. A Commonwealth Games 10,000m champion, Foster competed at three Olympics for Great Britain before beginning a commentary career in 1980.…

A boat transporting INEC adhoc staff, election materials and observers has capsized in the ilaje area of Ondo state. Court Jails Two Music Producers For Cyber Crime In a video sent by Yiaga africa and Kimpact Development initiative, obtained by TVC News shows all the occupants struggling to save their lives amidst the troubled waters as some were seen struggling to swim their way to the bank of the river. https://twitter.com/tvcnewsng/status/1314829505563963395 The number of occupants cannot be readily determined for now, but  there are no casualties as rescue efforts are already ongoing. More Updates to follow… TVC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 151 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Friday. The 151 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 59,992. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 63 patients from isolation centers across the country with no new death reported. Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria reported 71 new confirmed cases taking the total number of confirmed cases in Lagos alone to 19886. Nigeria announces 103 new coronavirus cases Ogun state reported 21 new cases, Kaduna recorded 19…

Conveys Lagos State’s position on police brutality The Lagos State Government has advised youths protesting alleged brutality by operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) – an operational outfit in the Police Force – to be civil, as they demonstrated in the State to express their grievances. Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, on Friday, shelved official engagements and obliged the request to address aggrieved #EndSARS protesters who besieged the State House in Alausa. As the Deputy Governor arrived at the scene, some of the demonstrators engaged in intense arguments with the Government House police guards deployed to keep the peace. The…

President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to bring an end to police brutality in Nigeria following protests across the country against police harassment, extortion and killings. President Buhari in company of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo met with the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu on Friday evening. Shortly after the meeting, he noted that his administration was committed to ensuring reforms in the country. “I met again with the IGP tonight. Our determination to reform the police should never be in doubt,” he said. Police violations of young people’s rights unacceptable, annoying – Osinbajo “I am being briefed regularly on the…

The Uyo zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, October 8, 2020 secured the conviction of two music producers and two others, on cyber crime charges, before Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River state. The convicted music producers are Obot John Aniedi and Odok Valentine Metun, while the others are Williams Peter Obinna and Okoro Edwin Chigozie. While Obot and Odok were arrested on September 11, 2020 at their residentce located at 3 Ring Road, Shelter Afrique, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Williams and Okoro were nabbed on September…

Goalkeeper Edouard Mendy has returned to Chelsea after injuring his thigh while training with Senegal. Mendy, 28, joined the Blues on a five-year deal last month and kept a clean sheet on his Premier League debut against Crystal Palace. He injured his right thigh in training on Wednesday and has been sent back to London after an examination at a hospital in Rabat. Senegal play Morocco in a friendly on Friday night. Born in Montivilliers in northern France, Mendy began his career at AS Cherbourg in the Championnat National, the third tier of French football, and remained with the Normandy-based club until 2014.…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that 1,478,460 voters will decide Ondo governorship election across 3,009 polling units. INEC also noted that election will hold in 203 electoral wards across 18 local government councils in Ondo State. Although 17 candidates are eying the Alagbaka Government House, Akure, the state capital, eyes are only on three standard bearers. The three major candidates are Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), who is seeking re-election, Eyitayo Jegede(Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi(Zenith Labour Party). On poll day, the remaining 14 candidates running on the…

A previously unknown work by Ben Enwonwu, Nigeria’s most celebrated 20th Century visual artist, is up for auction in an online sale organised by Sotheby’s. The Court of the Oba of Benin, thought to have been painted in the 1940s, is described as a “masterpiece” by the auctioneers, but was never documented and was held in a private collection. It was created in the wake of Enwonwu’s apprenticeship with the bronze casters in the Nigerian city of Benin – the home of the famous Benin Bronzes. Who is Ben Enwonwu The painting, which is one of his earlier works, shows…