Man City has in a dramatic move eased past Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, thereby escalating massive pressures on Blues manager, Frank Lampard. This feat has enabled Man city surpass Chelsea, to emerge fifth in the rung of things. Man City who was without a number of its first-team players following an outbreak of coronavirus at…
A former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos and an eminent academic, Prof Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe is dead. Professor Ibidapo-Obe who until his demise was a foremost Nigerian professor of Systems Engineering, excellent educationist and public administrator of top standing is credited with being author of several ground-breaking academic and professional works. Reports reaching The New…
There is growing apprehension among residents of Benin City and its environs following reports that some detained persons suspected to kidnappers and armed robbers have reportedly escaped from the detention center of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Edo State Police Command. The New Diplomat's checks reveal that the accurate number of suspects that…
*Presidency Blasts PDP: You are ‘University of Lies’, Nigerians will reject you in 2023 *PDP Asserts: Buhari's New Year Address empty, No Road map to economic Recovery... The presidency and the opposition party, peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are currently locked in ferocious verbal war over President Muhammadu Buhari's new year address to the nation. The…
A former governor of Lagos state and one of the national leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has refuted media reports which claim that he was down with complications arising from COVID-19. Mr Tunde Rahman, media aide to the former Lagos Governor, Asiwaju Tinubu who spoke on the subject matter…
In a bid to prove its seriousness and commitment to combating the raging covid-19 pandemic, the Federal government has imposed travel restrictions on 100 passengers for non-compliance with the compulsory Day 7 post-arrival COVID-19 test protocol. According to the federal government, this first set of 100 determined Nigerians would face six months restriction as they…
From Ameachi Prosper(The New Diplomat's Delta & Edo States Correspondent) The Cross River State House of Assembly (CRHA), on Thursday in Calabar, the Cross River state capital passed a budget of N281,940,880,230 as 2021 appropriation bill into law. In a 2021 Budget, 25,129,910,608 was provided as Statutory Expenditure, while 204,144,154,406 was designated as Capital whereas…
Report reaching The New Diplomat indicate that fiery Lagos Cleric and Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church in Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, and a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, have resolved their differences occasioned by a sermon delivered by the former wherein he heaped praises and eulogies on a former Governor of…
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has sounded a fresh alarm that the world should work towards for a more deadly virus than the coronavirus, declaring that the COVID-19 pandemic is merely serving as a wake-up call to all globally. Head of the WHO emergencies measures, Dr Mike Ryan, who issued this warning Wednesday, said although…