The Lagos Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), says its vehicle, involved in an accident in Abuja on Friday, was not carrying election materials. The NewsZenith reports that the media was awash in the earlier hours of Saturday that the NSCDC pick-up van was carrying election materials, contrary to reports in […]
Voters at several polling units in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State waited endlessly for the arrival of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials on Saturday. INEC had scheduled the poll to open across the country at 8.00 a.m. Over 100 voters were seen, waiting for INEC officials at polling units 24-04-03-010, 24-04-03-013 and […]
As the presidential election gets underway, youths mounted several football pitches on major highways in parts of the Lagos metropolis. Correspondents of The NewsZenith, monitoring the elections, observed that no fewer than 15 temporary football pitches were mounted. This happened between Costain and Oyingbo on Apapa road in the Mainland Local Government area. Some of […]
Ukrainians honoured their dead and vowed to keep fighting, on Friday, as Russia told the world to accept “the realities” of its war. Moscow faces new Western sanctions on the one-year invasion’s anniversary. At a ceremony in Kyiv’s St Sophia Square, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy bestowed medals on soldiers and the mother of one killed, fighting […]
The Police Command in Ebonyi say they have started raiding black spots as part of efforts to tackle related electoral violence during the general polls in the state. Mr Falaye Olaleye, Commissioner for Police in the state, announced this to newsmen on Friday in Abakaliki. Olaleye said that the raid was in addition to the […]
The South African Police Service (SAPS), on Friday, said that they have seized 380 kilogrammes of cocaine at the Durban Harbour. “A multidisciplinary team led by the SAPS Organised Crime Investigations unit acted on intelligence-driven information that a vessel that was coming into the country from South America on Thursday,” the SAPS said in a […]
A hospital in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, has conducted a successful heart and kidney transplant on a 37-year-old man. The man had lived with heart muscle disease for more than a decade, Vietnam News Agency reported on Friday. The 10-hour operation, carried out on Feb. 15, was done by a team of 80 surgeons, anesthesiologists and […]
Four school pupils are reportedly missing after their boat capsized in a crocodile and hippo-infested river in Tanzania’s western region of Kigoma, an official said on Friday. Salum Kali, the Kigoma District Commissioner, said the pupils were crossing over to a primary school on the other side of the Luiche River when it capsized at […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Medical Science University (UniMed), Ondo State, are collaborating to boost research. NAFDAC resident media consultant, Mr Olusayo Akintola, announced the collaboration in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. The statement, received by The NewsZenith on Thursday, said the collaboration would formally commit […]
The Federal Government has directed the total closure of all land borders ahead of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections. The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Isah Jere, announced the closure in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Tony Akuneme, the Service Public Relations Officer, signed the statement. Read Related News: Nigeria, […]