From Apapa in Lagos, Blueprint has been reliably informed that the office of the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) has become the latest place to be set ablaze on Wednesday. The raging fire was also triggered inside another government-owned facility where BRT buses are packed and operated from. Earlier, a privately-owned and managed television station Television Continental (TVC). No official statement Read More
Journalists have been barred from the ongoing meeting between Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, and the envoys of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany as well as others in Abuja. The meeting Blueprint gathered is holding at the instance of the ongoing #EndSARS protests across the country. Details loading…
The commercial area of Ahmadu Bello and other streets in Jos, Plateau state capital are on fire, after hoodlums infiltrated protest in the city. Blueprint reports that all business premises have been deserted with some aggrieved youths also engaging the hoodlums. Several cars and property have been set ablaze Tuesday morning. Few police personnel shooting sporadically have moved in to Read More
The video clip attached to this story shows how hoodlums set many cars ablaze at a roadside car pack in Abuja on Monday. The miscreants who were protesting against the blockade of the Apo mechanic village road by #EndSARS protesters, went berserk and attacked passersby before torching the vehicles. About seven vehicles were burnt down during the violence which also Read More
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted two Catholic priests, Reverend Fathers Otori Francis and Avajara Simeon – who are both of the Catholic Diocese of Lokoja. Blueprint gathered the clerics were taken hostage along the Benin-Auchi road in Edo state while they were on their way to Delta state for the funeral of their parishioner. The development came amidst the hijack Read More
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state Sartuday denied the rumours making rounds that he dumped People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for All Progressive Congress (APC). Rumour of his defection became stronger on Saturday afternoon when the Federal Lawmaker representing Ezza South/ Ikwo federal constituency, Comrade Chinedu Oga, released a statement confirming it. Oga, the only APC House of Representatives lawmaker from Ebonyi Read More
Gunmen in their numbers struck again within the nation’s capital Abuja and hijacked a bus at Kuje community. Blueprint gathered that the incident which occurred late Saturday evening led to kidnap of many occupants of the bus including a former vice chairman of the council, Mohammed Baba. Details loading…
Thugs have reportedly invaded a polling unit in Akure early Saturday morning and shot sporadically to scare away voters who trooped out for accreditation and voting duirng governorship election in Ondo state. However, voting has already begun across various polling unit in the state. Blueprint gathered that a boat conveying electoral officials and materials capsized. Details loading…
Motorists are currently stranded along Lagos-Ibadan expressway following #EndSARS protest which has continued to escalate across the country. Blueprint learnt that the protest is inconveniently causing gridlock on the Lagos highway. Details loading…
An Abuja-based Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Barr. Kingdom Okere, has condemned the move by the National Assembly to scrap the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and make it a department under the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), and Minister of Justice. Okere who noted that the AGF office has the power in section 174 of the 1999 Read More
The Korean Cultural Centre of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea is staging an online Ankara – Hanbok exhibition to showcase of 10 best fashion designs from the design competition which took place from between February and March, 2020. A press statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday and made available to Blueprint, the director of the Korean Cultural Centre Read More
The Emir of Zazzau and chairman, Kaduna state Council of Emirs and Chiefs, Alhaji Shehu Idris, is dead. The first emir died this Sunday afternoon at Nigerian Army 44 Reference Hospital, Kaduna after brief illness. Confirming his death, the Wazirin Zazzau, Alhaji Ibrahim Aminu, confirmed the late emir was rushed to the Army health facility on Saturday and died on Read More
Blueprint has been informed of the passage of a veteran Nollywood actor, Jimoh Aliu. Popularyly known as Aworo, Aliu died at the age of 86 on Thursday in an Ekiti state hospital. Born in Okemesi-Ekiti, the deceased began acting in 1959 after joining Akin Ogungbe Theatre Group and left in 1966 to form his own troupe, Jimoh Aliu Concert Party, Read More
The Senate of the University of Lagos Akoka Monday elected the deputy vice-chancellor in charge of development services, Professor Folasade Ogunsola as the institution’s acting vice-chancellor. By the appointment, Ogunsola became the first female to occupy the office in UNILAG’s 58-year-old history. Ogunsola, a professor of medical microbiology is also the first child of Nigeria’s first professor of Geography, Akin Read More
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Nigeria Football Federation NFF has cancelled the two friendlies proposed for the Super Eagles next month in Europe as the clubs of the national team call-ups have refused to release them over concerns over coronavirus. Accordingly, Super Eagles gaffer Gernot Rohr had informed the federation that the European clubs are not keen in releasing their players for the proposed friendlies Read More
There is palpable tension at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) Sagamu, Ogun state as no fewer than 20 medical laboratory staff at the hospital have tested positive for COVID-19. It was also gathered that, a family of four contracted the virus from their father who worked at the hospital’s main laboratory. Blueprint gathered that a staff of the hospital who Read More
It seems the mass resignation of about seven lecturers at the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL), in Niger state, was not a novel incident. But another lecturer at the institution, who did not want to be named, told Blueprint that many academic staff have discreetly resigned their appointments in recent times. “That four professors in our university tendered their Read More
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, in this chat with a delegation of Blueprint’s senior staff led by the chief operating officer, Malam Salisu Umar, which paid him a courtesy visit recently, speaks on the 5G controversy and other issues. What do you have to tell Nigerians about 5G? Hmmmm…this issue of 5G; the allegation Read More
Legendary Nigerian defender Christian Chukwu has rated the 1994 Super Eagles team better than the 1980 AFCON winning squad and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold side the “Dream Team”. Chukwu captained the then Green Eagles to the 1980 AFCON title on home soil which was the country’s first. Under Dutch coach Clemens Westerhof, the Super Eagles were crowned African champions. Read More
Some operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) allegedly deployed from Abuja have taken over Edo State House of Assembly. Blueprint gathered that the operatives chased away policemen guarding the assembly complex which is currently undergoing renovation. It is not yet clear why the operatives’ was deployed to house of assembly premises as at the time of filling this report. Read More
The Chairman/Publisher of Blueprint Newspapers, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has advised youths to embrace education and entrepreneural skills to enable them contribute meaningfully to national development. Idris gave the advice when he visited his country home, Malagi, in Gbako local government area of Niger state to celebrate Eid el-Kabir with the community. “Most youths can become great if they pursue their Read More
Report reaching Blueprint Monday morning indicates that Shoprite owners are considering auctioning their mega shopping outlets due to effects of Coronavirus pandemic. Few years back, Shoprite market places were established in Nigeria. Already, their outlets have been constructed in most parts of Nigeria. Shoprite opened its first store in Lagos in December 2005. In a trading update filed at the Read More
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