Author: Npo_report
US daytime talk show legend Wendy Williams Hunter was diagnosed last year with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), her care team has revealed. The team said it was sharing the news “to correct inaccurate and hurtful rumours about her health”. Ms Williams, 59, hosted the popular, nationally syndicated Wendy Williams Show for over a decade. But it ended in 2022 amid the health struggles she has been facing. The news of her diagnosis comes a day after a People Magazine cover story, in which relatives said Ms Williams is at a care facility in an unknown location and…
Alexei Navalny’s mother has said she has been shown his body, but that the Russian authorities are pressuring her to allow a “secret” burial. In a video address, Lyudmila Navalnaya said she had been brought to a morgue where she signed a death certificate. The former opposition leader’s press secretary said a medical report presented to Ms Navalnaya stated he died of natural causes. Navalny’s widow has said he was killed by Russian authorities. Lyudmila Navalnaya said the law required officials to hand over her son’s body, but that she was being “blackmailed” as they refused to do so. She…
A massive fire has killed at least four people in a high-rise residential block in the Spanish city of Valencia, emergency services say. The blaze engulfed a 14-storey block in the Campanar neighbourhood and spread to an adjoining building. Firefighters were seen rescuing people from balconies, and nineteen are believed to be still missing. At least 14 people, including six firefighters and a young child, have been injured. High winds fanned the flames, but there are also suspicions that highly flammable cladding enabled the fire to spread rapidly. More than 20 fire crews tackled the blaze, and by early Friday…
By Halimah Olamide The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation on Thursday said all the tiers of government have shared a total of N1,149.816 billion January 2024 Federation Account Revenue. According to a statement by Bawa Mokwa Director (Press and Public Relations) Office of Accountant General of the Federation, he said the revenue was shared at the February 2024 meeting of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) chaired by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun. He cited a communique issued by FAAC, the N1,149.816 billion saying the total distributable revenue comprised distributable…
By Halimah Olamide The All Progressive Congress on Thursday denied sacking Governor Hope Uzodinma as its chairman of the committee overseeing its primary election in Edo state. The party on its official X handle on Thursday in a memo signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka said, “The attention of the Alll Progressives Congress APC has been drawn to reports in section of the media suggesting that the Governor of Imo State and Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum his Excellency Hope Uzodimma was sacked or dropped as the chairman of the Edo Gubernatorial Primary Election Committee and replace…
By Femi Alabi With the approval of two new universities by Federal Government on Thursday, the country now can boast of 149 private universities and a total of 274 universities. The institutions are Lighthouse University, Evbuobanosa, Edo State and the African School of Economics, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. Speaking at the presentation of Provisional Licences to the two universities in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, said the two universities were approved by President Bola Tinubu at the December 13, 2023 Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Mamman charged the proprietors of the universities to capture…
The Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command, Adeniran Akinwale, has called on all stakeholders, parents, and peace lovers “to warn their wards to be law-abiding citizens and shun all acts that could aggregate tension in the State. The CP, according to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, spoke in Ado Ekiti during an emergency stakeholders meeting held in his office to review the rumour circulating on social media about a possible protest tagged “End Nigeria Hardship” to be held on Friday by an unknown group. Akinwale warned against staging an “End Nigeria Protest” believed to be…
By Femi Alabi Suspected acute Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) has made the Nigerian Army Reference Hospital Kaduna (NARHK) shut down its Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department over the death of three members of staff and a patient. The Acting Corps Commander Medical (CCM) of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General S.O. Okoigi, who disclosed this in an internal memo dated February 21, 2024. He said a suspected index patient, who has also died, was brought to the Army hospital with febrile illness about 10 days ago. “They are suspected to have died from acute VHF. This followed the management of a…
By Halimah Olamide Governor of Oyo State Seyi Makinde on Thursday accused President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio of lying to Nigerians that governors collected N30bn from the Federal Government. Makinde, while speaking at the commissioning of the Iseyin Central Mosque, wondered why a senior official of the government would make such alleged outlandish statement knowing it is false. Accusing Akpabio of contributing to the already tensed situation in the country, Makinde said it is not impossible for the Federal Inland Revenue Service to pay money meant for the people of the country just like that. NPO Reports that Akpabio…
By Femi Alabi Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has stated that his administration will not hesitate to bring down houses that contravene the state’s planning rule. Sanwo-Olu in a media parley on Thursday said that houses of some officials of government were not spared for having contravened the rule. Last year, demolition of buildings resumed in Lagos with the state government and the Federal Housing Authority pulling down structures in Ikota, Lekki, Alaba, Ajao Estate, Abule Ado, Ladipo Market, and other areas of the state. The buildings demolished were said to have contravened the master plan of the city and…