At least 19 worshipers have been abducted by a gang of terrorists in the Funtua Local Government Area of Katsina State. An eyewitness told Channels Television that the hoodlums stormed a mosque located at Maigamji community on Saturday night at about 7:40 pm, whisking away 19 of the worshipers....
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By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Niger Delta Rights Assembly (NDRA) has described Delta Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, as a transparent and frugal manager of resources. Against the controversy over the release of arrears of 13 percent derivation and other...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum was in Bosso, a border town in Niger Republic on Sunday, to visit citizens of the state, who were displaced by flooding. The citizens were residents of Malam-Fatori, headquarters of Abadam Local Government in the northern part of Borno...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has commissioned the Atiku Abubakar /Okowa campaign office in Cross River State. Governor Okowa while commissioning the campaign office in Calabar over the weekend in company of other South-South Governor, declared...
Thirty youngsters from northern Nigeria who are under the age of 30 have been honoured by Arewa Agenda, a publication of Image Merchants Promotion Limited (IMPR) – publishers of PRNigeria and other titles in a collaboration with Daily Nigeria for their outstanding success in various areas which include innovation,...
By TARGBA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Head Coach Isah Ladan Bosso has announced that he expects his Nigeria U20 boys to get even better after a haul of 17 goals in three friendly games at the start of preparations in Abuja for next year’s Africa U-20 Cup of Nations. The...
Jokes apart, I am a fan of Nyesom Wike, the current Governor of Rivers State. He is a visionary and a revolutionary. He is also bold and sincere! Like Rauf Aregbesola, the amiable former Governor of Osun State, Wike has capacity and a bias for action. He is also...
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By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said that diligent implementation of various telecommunications policies, strategies and regulatory frameworks has continued to enhance the nation’s capacity to deepen citizens’ access to digital resources, transform media and knowledge...
Emmanuel Ojeabulu, winner of the 61st FirstBank Lagos Open Golf Championship has been listed in the WAGR. The premier golf championship which was held from 18 – 20 November at the golf section of Ikoyi Club 1938 was keenly contested by over 190 low handicap players from several golf...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has charged Nigerians to rise above parochial considerations and work together for the progress of the country. Governor Ortom gave the charge on Saturday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State shortly after he received the highest honours in the state,...
I have just read a piece of news that says Yakubu Dogara and his co-travellers are endorsing Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 election. My first impression was to question why a gentleman of Idris Wada’s orientation would fall prey to this needless profiling of religion and politics; two mutually...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared an Abuja drug lord, Ibrahim Momoh a.ka. ‘Ibrahim Bendel’ wanted. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the suspect is an ex-convict who escaped from jail in 2020. “Operatives...
The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Datti Baba-Ahmed says the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are as good as gone as political parties. “APC is as good as gone. PDP’s votes do not exist. There is only one political party genuinely standing:...
England set up a titanic World Cup quarter-final against holders France as Jude Bellingham’s masterclass inspired a 3-0 win against Senegal in the last 16 on Sunday. Gareth Southgate’s side survived a nervous start at the Al Bayt Stadium before Jordan Henderson and Harry Kane put Senegal to the...
Kylian Mbappe set up a history-making goal for Olivier Giroud and then scored two himself as holders France eased into the quarter-finals of the World Cup with a 3-1 win over Poland on Sunday. Giroud’s opening goal a minute before half-time was his 52nd for his country, allowing him...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered immediate deployment of armed personnel drawn from the Police Mobile Force, K-9, Force Intelligence Bureau, Explosive Ordnance Unit and Railway Police Command for the commencement of railway services along Abuja/Kaduna rail lines on Monday,...
The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Datti Baba-Ahmed says the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), means nothing to President Muhammadu Buhari. According to him, Buhari has finished with Nigeria and he is going to “unmake Tinubu after all his political successes”....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has announced former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, as member with “immediate effect”. The Director-General of the party’s PCC, Aminu Tambuwal, in a statement on Sunday, said Dogara’s appointment “is part of our continuous effect in joining...
Gunmen has kidnapped the Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Mr Ekpe Ogbu. It was learnt that the Commissioner was kidnapped at the notorious Adankari Junction along the Otukpo-Ado Road at about 4 pm on Sunday. The adviser on security matters to governor Samuel Ortom, Colonel Paul...