Bauchi State deputy governor, Baba Tela, has tested positive for COVID-19. This followed tests carried out on him by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control after exhibiting noticeable symptoms of the disease. According to a statement by Mukhtar Gidado, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Bala Mohammed on Tuesday, Tela, who is also the Chairman of the State Task Force on ... Read More »

Edo All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu, has denied reports he has exited the race. A statement by his media aide, John Mayaki, said: “We want to clarify to members of the public that the laughable report claiming that Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu has dropped out of the APC governorship race and demanded a refund is ... Read More »

A clergyman, Reverend Emmanuel Saba Bileya, and his wife, Julianna, have been killed by yet to be identified gunmen in Mararraba community in Donga local government area of Tabara state. The spokesperson of the state police command, ASP David Misal, who confirmed this to LIB, said the pastor, who is the Senior Pastor at Reform Church and his wife were ... Read More »

The N1 billion Health Workers Fund set up to support frontline health workers combating the COVID-19 pandemic has supported more than 60 frontline health workers since it launched in March. Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, Chairman, Governance Board of the Fund, disclosed this in a statement issued in Lagos over the weekend.  The seasoned public health expert and former Commissioner of Health ... Read More »

Davido has been pictured using crutches after he fractured his left leg. His lawyer, Bobo F. Ajudua shared photos of the singer grappling with crutches while wearing a medical walking boot for broken foot. He wrote in his caption: ‘How some people chose to enter June. Nawa. At some point yesterday we were literally thanking God there are no shows ... Read More »

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Services to immediately release a former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. Kalu is in the Kuje Correctional Service centre following his conviction last December for looting N7.65billion belonging to Abia State. Justice Mohammad Liman granted the lawmaker’s application for release moved by his counsel Lateef ... Read More »

The Police in Edo have arrested one person suspected to have been part of the gang that raped and killed a 100-level Microbiology student of UNIBEN, Uwaila Vera Omozuwa. Chairperson of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, confirmed the development on her twitter handle @abikedabiri. She hinted the police carried out the arrest through the thumbprint of the suspect on ... Read More »

 First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced that it has reinforced its technology infrastructure to enable anyone in the country open a FirstBank account through their mobile phones, without visiting any of its branches nationwide.  The investment in the Bank’s mobile banking infrastructure is in furtherance of the need to deepen financial ... Read More »

The family of Mr. and Mrs Harrison Nwachukwu has been thrown into mourning, following the stealing of their 10-month old baby boy by a strange couple on Friday in Umuahia, Abia State. The shock has left the nursing mother acting strangely. Narrating how the child was stolen in is mother’s hair saloon Mr. Harrison a staff of Federal Road Safety ... Read More »

….Federal Government has directed the “restrictive opening” of worship centres  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Monday 1st of June 2020, announced that 416 new confirmed cases and 12 deaths have been recorded in Nigeria. This is the second-highest daily figure recorded by the centre after it announced 553 confirmed cases on Saturday 30th May 2020, since the ... Read More »