The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has paid about N1 million to off-set medical bill of Mrs Blessing Usulor, a resident of Enugu, abandoned in a hospital. Usulor, in June 2022, was rushed to the Hopecare Medical Centre, Enugu by her neighbours when she...
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Some students of the Federal Government College, Ijaniki, Lagos State, have been caught engaging in sex romps in hotels in the community. The male and female students who reportedly jumped the school’s fence and stayed out of school for days are reportedly between the ages of 14 and 17....
Air Peace Airline has urged the aviation authorities to look into the ground handling equipment that collided and damaged its aircraft elevator at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos Spokesman of Air Peace, Mr Stanley Olisa, who confirmed the incident in Lagos on Wednesday, said the aircraft was scheduled...
The Defence and Security sectors have been allocated N2.98 trillion or 13.4 per cent of the 2023 budget. Mrs Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, stated this during a Public Presentation and Breakdown of the Approved Federal Government of Nigeria, 2023 Budget, on Wednesday in...
A former All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in the 2023 primary election in Sokoto State, Amb. Faruk Yabo, has joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the general elections. Yabo, the immediate past Ambassador of Nigeria to Jordan and the APC running mate in the 2019 governorship...
Supporters of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday in Ibadan staged Freedom Walk to mobilise supports for his aspiration. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that three prominent chieftains of the party in Oyo State, led the party members to...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The Kano State Police Command, says a couple has been found dead on its matrimonial bed in Dawakin Tofa LGA of the state, believed to have died of suffocation from charcoal fumes. The commands spokesman, SP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, who confirmed the incident in a...
By PETER OJOMA, Lokoja – The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the suspected mastermind of the Okene explosion of Dec. 29, 2002 that left some innocent persons dead and wounded The suspected mastermind, Abdulmumin Ibrahim-OTARU (aka Abu Mikdad) and one of his associates, Saidu SULEIMAN, had allegedly...
The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Borno Council, Mr Dauda Iliya, has urged repentant Boko Haram terrorists to be ambassadors of peace as they are set to be reintegrated into the society. Iliya gave the advice when he spoke to hundreds of Boko Haram insurgents, who...
The Police in Ondo State has urged residents to be security conscious and report suspicious movements in their environments to security operatives. SP Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, the command spokesperson, gave the advice on Wednesday in Akure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Odunlami-Omisanya was reacting to...
A medical doctor, Mrs Oyebimpe Akinbunmi, on Wednesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how one Dr Olufemi Olaleye allegedly defiled his wife’s 16-year-old niece. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Olaleye, the Medical Director of Cancer Care Foundation, is facing a two-count charge...
An early morning fire, which escalated into a warehouse, near the Ariaria International Market, Aba, on Tuesday, has destroyed goods estimated at over 50 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the warehouse is situated at No. 5 Market Crescent/Umuode Road, opposite Ekumi Plaza. A NAN correspondent,...
INEC has taken delivery of its last consignment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, said on Wednesday that INEC’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, National Commissioners and senior officials took delivery of the machines on...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than 18 people have been burnt to ashes in a multiple fatal crash that occurred a few kilometers to Nabardo village along the ever-busy Bauchi-Jos road. The Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC), Bauchi State Sector Command, confirmed the incident to newsmen on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu continued his nationwide campaign rally in Kano on Wednesday, urging the people of the state to vote him in next month’s presidential election. Tinubu who had been in Kano since midnight of Monday,...
More than 20 persons were feared dead as a boat carrying about 100 farmers capsized in Koko/Besse Local Government Area of Kebbi on Tuesday. Police spokesman in Kebbi, DSP Nafiu Abubakar, confirmed the accident and promised to release details later. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
Call for Applications The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2023 has commenced, with successful applications standing a chance to get $5,000 seed funding. The entrepreneurship programme, which commenced on the 1st of January 2023, is open to Africans from all 54 African countries with scalable business ideas or a...
Igwe Godwin Odiegwu of Abacha in Idemili North Local Government area of Anambra, has urged his subjects to support Gov. Chukwuma Soludo-led administration to enable him to surpass his predecessors’ achievements. Odiegwu made the call, while speaking with journalists during the celebration of his maiden Ofala Festival at Abacha...
Chief Afe Babalola, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) says the 1999 Constitution will not guarantee the emergence of credible leaders at the February general elections. “Unless a new Constitution similar to those of 1960 and 1963 Constitutions, with necessary amendments, is put in place, none of the aspirants, and...
Prof. Musa Yakubu, the Dean of Student Affairs, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), says the institute’s charges remains the least compared to other federal universities in Nigeria. Yakubu stated this while speaking with newsmen at the University on Wednesday to justify the adjustment in the institution’s school charges for students....