Rwanda held Nigeria’s Super Eagles to a frustrating 0-0 draw during their second match of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The Eagles could not find the breakthrough despite being dominant in most part of the game, as the Rwandese team remained disciplined in the defence. With the...
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The Director General of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr Barkindo Mohammed, has described the situation in flooded Maiduguri town as “terrible.” The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports water from Alau Dam, which collapsed early Tuesday morning, has continued to submerge various wards in the town...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has said it would soon commence the prosecution of banks and their top officials for financial frauds. The EFCC Chairman, Mr Olanipekun Olukoyede, said this at the 17th Annual Banking and Finance Conference organised by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria...
Dickson Mengich, the man accused of setting Ugandan marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei on fire, leading to her death, has also died from his injury in a Kenyan hospital. An official at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, western Kenya, confirmed that Ndiema, who had been admitted to the ICU...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State Police Command has arrested 3 suspects, including two women, over alleged involvement in ‘one-chance, robbery in Port Harcourt The command’s spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, said in a statement in Port Harcourt on Monday that the suspects were arrested at about 9.00p.m on...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, fixed Sept. 19 to hear a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) seeking the disqualification of Asue Ighodalo, the PDP candidate for the Sept. 21 governorship election in Edo. Justice Peter Lifu fixed the hearing of all pending applications...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said there are 55 confirmed cases of Monkey-pox (Mpox) in Nigeria. The centre made this known via its official website, noting that the 55 cases were confirmed from the 935 suspected cases across 39 local government areas in 21...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kebbi, has called for a thorough investigation into the alleged fraudulent activities in the disbursement of NG-Cares, also known as ‘Kaura Cares’ in the state. The Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Bawa-Kalgo, made the call in a statement issued to newsmen in...
The people of Khana Local Government Area of Rivers, have expressed joy following the provision of electricity to nine Ogoni communities for the first time in eight years. The communities of Gbam Bonue, Kereken Boue, and Nyorkwiri Boue, among others, had been in total blackout since 2016, with this...
A cross-section of Abuja-based football coaches have urged the Nigeria Women’s National Under-20 football team, Falconets, to go for a win against Japan. The Falconets will take on Japan in the round of 16 at the 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup at Estadio Metropolitana de Techo, Bogota, Colombia,...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has appealed to Kogi Government to reinstate 120 academic staff of Kogi State University (KSU), Anyigba sacked in 2017. Chairman, ASUU, University of Nigeria (UNN) Chapter, Comrade Onyibo Eze, made the appeal on Tuesday in Nsukka. Eze said, in a statement, that...
The Minister for Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, has said that Federal Government’s revenue for the first quarter of 2024 has increased to N9.1 trillion. According to Edun, this is more than double in the same period in 2023. Edun said this at the...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has released labour leader Joe Ajaero, Channels Television has learnt. Ajaero, who confirmed his release to our correspondent, said the secret police allowed him to go home around 11 pm on Monday. The Nigeria Labour Congress president said he was grilled for about...
The House of Representatives has ordered the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to remit N3.602 billion to the Federal Government Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF). Rep. Bamidele Salam, the Chairman, Public Accounts Committee, who gave the order during an investigative hearing in Abuja, said that the remittance demanded by...
Many residents of Maiduguri in Borno have been displaced by flood following the collapse of water channels at the Alau Dam, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The flood submerged residential quarters, roads and bridges, making many areas in the metropolis inaccessible. A NAN correspondent, who went round...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has described allegations by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) that its officers had taken control of its Abuja and Lagos offices, as “inaccurate and misleading” The DSS, in a publication on its website on Tuesday in Abuja said a team of...
A pregnant woman has been trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, police said on Tuesday. The woman, identified as Karsini, was trying to protect her family’s rubber plantation from the elephants in Muara Lakitan district in South Sumatra when they charged at...
The Borno government says there is no presence of elephants in the Sambisa forest. Mr Ayuba Peter, Director, Forestry and Wildlife in the Ministry of Environment, told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), that the last survey made by government regarding the presence of elephants in the forest, showed that...
The House of Representatives has urged the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE) to account for about N10 billion alleged used to register two companies for the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST). Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Rep. Bamidele Salam, made the call in Abuja at the resumed investigative hearing...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – In anticipation of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) delegates’ conference set for September 17, 2024, in Plateau State, a pro-Arandong faction has issued a warning to individuals attempting to undermine the re-election campaign of Comrade Makwin Yohanna Arandong, the current state...