Some maize farmers in Kano State have resorted to planting sorghum due to the high cost of fertilizer, instead of maize and other crops. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the farmers use manure obtained from animals dung and waste for the crops, with little fertilizers. The...
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Relatives of the victims of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack have picketed the headquarters of the Ministry of Transportation in Abuja, following the release of a new video by the bandits. The protesters who occupied the main entrance to the ministry on Monday asked the Federal Government to take steps...
By OLA MODUPE, Akure – Ondo State Police Command has confirmed a midnight attack by suspected gunmen on the Okuta Elerinla Police Division in Akure, the state capital. The police spokesperson, Funmi Odunlami, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday in Akure. Ms. Odunlamin noted that...
The World Athletics Council has approved an innovation to the regular competition format for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The governing board of the global athletics body is introducing a repechage round to all individual track events from 200 metres to 1500m in distance, including the hurdles events. The...
BY RICHARD ABU, Lafia – The newly appointed Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier General Muhammed Fadah has charged camp officials to always show love and treat corps members with utmost care. Brig. Gen. Fadah also charged the officials o empathize and correct corps members,...
Godwin Izilein, ex-Coach of the Super Falcons, says that Falcons will have a poor showing at the World Cup if they proceed with the same mentality in their campaign at Women Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco. Izilein spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar...
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. Mark 3:24, Matthew 12:25. If there is any factor/actor that has kept the People Democratic Party (PDP), as the dominant party in Delta state...
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje has donated N3.8 million to the families of the 19 people killed in a car crash on the Zaria-Kano Expressway. The victims, who were from Tusguri village of Sanda Ward, in Bunkure Local Government, were reportedly burnt to death. This is contained in a statement the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed heartfelt congratulations to Tobi Amusan for winning the women’s 100m hurdles gold for Nigeria at the World Athletics Championship 2022 in Oregon, United States. With her victory, Amusan has set a new world record in the semifinals of the...
Tunisians are to head to polls on Monday to vote in a referendum on a controversial draft constitution that grants the president wide powers amid a months-long political crisis in the country, the birthplace of the 2010-11 Arab Spring revolts. The opposition has called for a boycott of the...
Tobi Amusan on Sunday won gold in the Women’s 100 metres hurdles at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA. Nigeria left her best for the last day of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, U. S. by winning a gold and a silver medal. The News...
More than two in five UK airport workers are considering leaving the industry, new research suggests. A survey of 1,700 workers by jobs site CV-Library found reasons for wanting to quit included wanting better pay and less stress. Only five per cent of respondents blamed the current situation at...
It was a moment of joy for stakeholders in the oil and gas industry as President Muhammadu Buhari unveiled the new Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) on July 19. Following the unveiling, the NNPC became fully commercialised and transited into a limited liability company. There are some...
Bandits on Sunday killed a driver with the Katsina State Transport Authority (KTSTA), Nasiru Yusha’u, after the victim’s vehicle ran into the gunmen along the Katsina-Jibia road. The terrorists are said to have kidnapped Yushau’s passengers after killing him. A resident of Daddara village near the scene of the...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to delivering infrastructural projects to Nigerians, saying the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway project will be delivered before December 25, 2022. Fashola stated this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, where he commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has expressed optimism that right-thinking Nigerians will vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general election. Fashola said this when he appeared on Channels TV today. Responding to a question on the possibility of the ruling party winning...
The Speaker, Northern Youths Assembly of Nigeria(NYAN), Malam Mohammed Lawal, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to eliminate the raving menace of banditry and kidnappings in the north. Lawal, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, also emphasised the need for the northern governors to...
Pope Francis on Sunday arrived in Canada to apologise to residential school survivors on their lands for the Catholic Church’s operation of residential schools throughout the country. The Pope will make three stops in the course of his five-day tour of Edmonton, Alberta, the province that hosts the most...
Two Lagos-based lawyers, Mr Chibuikem Opara and Mr Chris Ayiyi, on Sunday charged the judiciary to improve on service delivery in the coming new legal year. According to the lawyers, it is important to take stock of the judiciary now that the courts are about to embark on annual...
Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has said that the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the All Progressive Congress Party (APC) was not done to undermine the influence or relevance of Christians in the country. Mr Yinka Oyebode, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, in a statement on Sunday in...