By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone “D” Bauchi has sized contrabands worth over N200 million from August to date by various patrol teams. The Public Relations Officer, NCS, FOU, Bauchi, Umar Abdullahi disclosed this in a statement signed and issued to...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Forum of PDP Local Government Areas and Wards Executives of Borno Central Senatorial District has expressed dismay over the replacement of Hon. Jibrin Mustapha Tatabe, the elected Senatorial Candidate of Borno Central Senatorial district Hon. Jibrin Mustapha Tatabe, who was substituted by Hon....
The leaders of a PDP support group in Sokoto state, Ubandoma/Sagir Network, alongside several other members, have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday in Sokoto by Malam Bashar Abubakar, the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to...
Somali National Army (SNA) said on Monday that its forces killed more than 200 al-Shabab militants during an operation conducted on Sunday in Bulaburte district of central Somalia. According to the state-owned media, the militants were planning to block the road between Beledweyne and Bulaburde district and stage an...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that more than 116 million people are estimated to be living with mental health conditions in Africa. Dr Matshidiso Moeti WHO Regional Director for Africa said this in Abuja in a message to mark the 2022 World Mental Health Day which has...
The Kogi Government has appealed to residents to remain calm over the state House of Assembly that got burnt in the early hours of Monday. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, made the call in a statement in Lokoja. Fanwo said that security and technical experts were already...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, has commended his Borno State counterpart, Prof. Babagana Umaru Zulum for his doggedness in fighting the menace of Boko Haram in the northeast. He said these efforts have made the insurgents to evaporate from the region and as a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, was in Bauchi on Sunday to condole with Governor Bala Mohammed who lost his elder brother, Bappa Mohammed. The deceased, who was a traditional title holder and a retired Deputy Director at the Central Bank of Nigeria,...
The Kogi State House of Assembly has been gutted by fire in the early hours of Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports in Lokoja on Monday that the incident took the guards by surprise. Security personnel watching over the complex told the speaker of the house who...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has flagged off its presidential campaign in Akwa Ibom State. The event is taking place at the Nest of Champions Stadium in Uyo, the state capital, barely four months before the February 25 presidential election. Dignitaries in the...
Two suspected Internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo boys have allegedly killed a 40-year-old man, Abdullahi Azeez, in the Owode-Egba area of Ogun State. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement said the suspects were arrested at their hideout at Owode-Egba,...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba-Alkali, has urged political parties and politicians to allow the police to regulate their campaigns for 2023 general elections. Baba-Alkali made the call on Sunday in Maiduguri while speaking to newsmen. According to him, the measure was to contain any possible breakdown of...
Ten young footballers, selected across Nigeria, are set to depart the country for Germany to be part of the Bayern Munich FC World Youth Tournament. Founder of Aspire FC, Emeka Okeke who is sponsoring the players, told newsmen in Awka on Sunday that the players would join the Bayern...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and the Disaster Response Unit (DRU) of the Military has commenced aerial view operation to ascertain persons displaced or trapped by the rising floods in Anambra. Mr Thickman Tanimu, Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, South-East, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday...
The Anambra Government says the ongoing flooding in parts of the state has assumed a monumental dimension. Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, Deputy Governor, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka, Anambra state, on Sunday. Ibezim said the deaths, destruction of property and livelihood...
Suspected gunmen have disarmed some policemen and killed a Chinese expatriate at a mining site in Iboko, Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi. SP Chris Anyanwu, Spokesperson, Police Command in Ebonyi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone in Abakaliki on Sunday that the incident was yet...
By SUCCESS SOLOMON, Jos – Chairman, political campaign council of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Plateau State, Comrade Yohana Badung has said the union would soon embark on unit to unit campaign for all Labour Party Presidential candidates, Peter Obi ahead of the 2023 election. Comrade Badung, who...
A serial rapist, Lukman Tiamiyu, has impregnated his 15-year-old biological daughter (name withheld) in Kwara State. Though Tiamiyu was arrested and detained after his wife reported the abomination he committed, there is the fear in the community that the police may free him. Tiamiyu, whose ‘bubble busted’ only recently,...
An Islamic cleric, Sheikh Murtala Bello Sokoto has urged the Nigerian Military to as a matter of urgency bombard all identified bandits’ enclaves in the forests irrespective of the collateral damage that may be incurred. Sheikh Bello made this call in a short video obtained by PRNigeria. While noting...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Acting Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Mr Dauda Biu has said the traffic gridlock occasioned by massive flooding at Koton Karfe on the Abuja-Lokoja Highway is thinning out. Mr. Biu, who stated this in a statement issued by FRSC spokesman, Assistant...