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143 stories for TalkGlitz, 2020–2023.
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday recorded 416 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, bringing the total number of infected persons in Nigeria to 10,578. NCDC, on its official…
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has insisted the party would go ahead with the direct primary mode in picking its candidate for the June 22 Edo State Gubernatorial…
Social media aide to Mr. President, Lauretta Onochie, hit back the former military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, retd, on Monday, with her opinion on his letter to the President, saying that he…
Domestic flights which have been suspended since March as one of the measures to control the spread of the coronavirus, are to resume service beginning Sunday 21st June 2020. Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika,…
Mr Eyitayo Jegede, a contestant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State has said the deputy governor of the state, Mr. Agboola Ajayi's defection to PDP has demontrated that the APC has collapsed. The deputy…
Abubakar Dangiwa Umar yesterday called out President Muhammadu Buhari for dividing the nation along ethnic and religious lines, warning that biased appointments in government would spell doom for the country’s unity. In…
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Sunday met with President Muhammadu Buhari and discussed the next phase of reopening of sectors in the country. The PTF Chairman, Boss Mustapha, said one of the recommendations…
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, on Sunday, said he will go into self-isolation due to the result of tests conducted on close family members of a late former Commissioner for Environment, Solomon Ogunji, on…
Nigeria on 307 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 10,162. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on its official twitter handle, also confirmed 287 deaths. The centre said…
Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed has discredited claims by the All Progressive Congress (APC) that his Government is being controlled by cabals. The state opposition party had claimed at a press conference last…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cleared all the 23 local government chairmanship seats in Benue state. The PDP also swept all the councillorship positions in all the 276 council wards of the state in last…
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has ordered an immediate and thorough investigation into the alleged rape and murder of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 100-level student of the Department of Microbiology,…
A 19-year-old National Diploma holder of Yaba College of Technology Lagos has been arrested for being allegedly blackmailing Waka Queen Salawa Abeni with her nude pictures. The suspect, Olufowoke Emmanuel, said to be a…
The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has claimed that his predecessor, Mohammed Abubakar, spent N50m each time he travelled to Abuja from the state. He revealed this on Saturday during a media chat to mark his…
New Zealand has reported no new case of COVID-19 for nine days in a row, said a statement of the New Zealand Ministry of Health on Sunday. "New Zealand's combined total number of confirmed and probable cases stays at…
The Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Nasarawa State chapter, Bishop Joseph Masin, who was abducted by gunmen on Thursday in Lafia has regained freedom. Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr Bola Longe, in the…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Muhammadu Abubakar III, has urged the Federal Government to equip the armed forces to enable them to confront the ravaging insecurity in the country. Sultan Abubakar made the appeal in…
Twenty-one COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the Oyo State Isolation Centre in the past three days after receiving their second negative test results. Governor Seyi Makinde, via his twitter handle on Saturday,…
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to immediately implement all the agreements it had with the Association or it will embark on an indefinite…
The wife of the fired Minneapolis Police officer who has been arrested and charged in the death of George Floyd has filed for divorce after 10 years of marriage. Chauvin was arrested after he was seen on video kneeling…
