Page 2 - Usaka Uko News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Daily Post Nigeria Published Urukpota Mobile Court in Benin on Tuesday sentenced 32 persons for violation of face masks rules imposed by the Edo State government in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The mobile court is part of the state government’s strategy to curtail the spread of the Coronavirus in the state. Prosecuting counsel, Mr Orubosa Okubor said the 32 persons were apprehended within Benin metropolis and they pleaded liable to the offence Presiding Chief Magistrate, Mr. Rusberth Imafidon, directed the convicts to carry out community services in line with the Correctional C...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The troops of Operation Tura Takaibango, a subsidiary of Operation Lafiya Dole, have overrun Boko Haram and Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists’ enclaves, killing scores in Borno and Yobe States. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, who confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday, said the enclaves were located at Chindila town in Yobe and Mayankari in Borno. Onyeuko said the troops of 233 Battalion on Monday, made contact with the terrorists during an aggressive clearance patrol at Chindila village...

Yobe records 10 new cases of COVID-19 as total confirmed cases hit 221 Published Ten out of the 76 samples recently collected for COVID-19 testing in Yobe State have returned positive, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 221 in the state. This was revealed in a COVID-19 Pandemic Situation Report released by the State Ministry of Health and obtained by DAILY POST in Damaturu on Tuesday. The report says out of the total samples collected in the 3rd week of January 2021 fifty-two (56) returned negative while the results of the remaining 14 samples are pending. Although Yobe’s death...

Igboho disclosed this during an Instagram Live Chat with media mogul, Dele Momodu, on Tuesday. According to him, he met Tinubu during the build-up to the Ondo State governorship election, which involved a former Governor of the state, Olusegun Mimiko. Igboho claimed that another former Oyo State governor, Rasheed Ladoja, told him that Tinubu wanted to see him at his Bourdillon residence in Lagos. He then travelled to meet with Tinubu, who persuaded him not to support the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the election, because the party impeached Ladoja as governor in 2006. Tinubu then doled o...

PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said the Service Chiefs outlived their usefulness, hence their resignation. Speaking with DAILY POST, Ologbondiyan said the incoming Service Chiefs should put an end to the spate of insecurity in the country. The spokesman of the opposition party insisted that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was ineffective. According to Ologbondiyan: “The Chief of Army Staff and his colleagues listened to the voice of eminent Nigerians and PDP that if the president refused to sack them then they have outlived their usefulness and as s...