By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on Wednesday in Biu town, commissioned a 60-classroom community school for higher Islamic studies, built and donated by the state government. Zulum arrived Biu town on Tuesday and passed the night, before today’s commissioning of the higher Islamic...
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UK-based Pastor of SPAC Nation, Tobi Adegboyega, sat with Chude Jideonwo, host of #WithChude and founder of Joy, Inc., to discuss controversies surrounding his lifestyle as a pastor and people’s perceptions of him. Pastor Tobi Adegboyega’s name has been in the news for dining with popular stars like Tiwa...
The Supreme Court has stood down the judgment on the dispute over who is the lawful governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi for the 2023 election for 3pm today. A five-member panel, headed by Justice Amina Augie, announced on Wednesday that the judgment would be...
Prince Michael Ekamon, the 1st plaintiff in a suit filed in conjunction with Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers against Atiku Abubakar, has said that their lawyer, Wilfred Okoi, was not in court because he was indisposed. Ekamon told Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday,...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says more than 300 people have so far been killed in flood disaster across Nigeria in 2022. The Director General of NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, disclosed this at a strategic workshop with stakeholders on disaster risk reduction and management held in Abuja. He said...
Hundreds of workers were on Wednesday locked out of Government House office by Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River for lateness. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor, who arrived at the office at 8 a.m., was surprised to see that many of the civil servants...
Pope Francis underlined the importance of the world’s religions in the struggle for peace, in comments at the opening of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan on Wednesday. It is not appropriate to show “distrust and contempt for religion,” he said....
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme has been described by the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami as one of the greatest innovations of the Federal government in its resolve to tackle Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit. The scheme which provides...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than five persons have been killed after their canoe capsized at a river in Jama’are Town in Jama’are Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The Member representing Jama’are Constituency, Saleh Muhammad, who disclosed this in a motion he moved on the floor...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Kwara State Police Command has rescued two kidnapped victims and killed two kidnappers during a gun battle in Shao Town, Moro LGA of the state. The Command Public Relations Officer, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in...
At least ten people were killed in a second day of air strikes on Ethiopia’s Tigray region Wednesday, a hospital official said, in attacks that came after authorities there expressed readiness for a cease-fire. Twin drone attacks hit a residential neighborhood in the regional capital Mekele, killing 10 people...
Gambia has ordered importers and shops to suspend sales of all brands of paracetamol syrup while the government investigates a suspected link between the medicine and the deaths of dozens of young children. Last Thursday, the west African country’s health service said it had launched the probe after a...
A fuel tank exploded in a massive blast in the southern Libyan city of Sebha late on Tuesday, injuring 17 people, the health ministry said in a statement. The fire caused by the explosion was brought under control, witnesses said. The blast comes weeks after a fuel tanker blast...
The Eastern Naval Command, Calabar, has emerged as the winners of the just concluded Nigerian Navy Games which started on Sept. 8 and ended on Sept. 12 at the Nigerian Navy Sports Complex, Navy Town, Lagos State. The newly constructed ultramodern complex was inaugurated during the opening ceremony by...
Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has urged parents/guardians to be courageous as schools resume, saying kids resuming in new classes happen to be a critical season of ‘Back to school’. The renowned actress, tuned politician, who took to her Instagram page @tontolet to give the advice, said the resumption of...
The Senate will reduce the import duties waivers proposed for the N19.76trillion 2023 budget with attendant deficit of N12.4trillion. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Sen. Solomon Adeola made this known in Abuja on Tuesday, at an interactive session on the says it will reduce the N6 trillion proposed...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has described as “barbaric and condemnable,” the armed shooting in Anambra of the convoy of Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah, the Senator representing Anambra South District. The president made the condemnation in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday in...
The crude oil leak, which occurred at Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) facilities at Peremabiri in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa, has been pinned on equipment failure. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) to the incident site on...
Zamfara Head of Civil Service, Kabiru Gayari says the state government will soon implement the N30,000 minimum wage for workers. Gayari spoke on Tuesday at the 4th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Zamfara Chapter in Gusau. The Head of Service, who...