Team Nigeria on Friday qualified for the men’s 4×100 metres relay event of the forthcoming World Athletics Championships in Oregon, U.S.. The quartet of Favour Ashe, Godson Brume, Alaba Akintola and Udodi Onwuzurike, who are reigning World Under-20 champions, ran a new time of 38.34 seconds. The team booked...
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Frontline non-denominational assembly, The Elevation Church (TEC), headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, is set to hold its annual mid-year convergence of believers and God-seekers – the Accelerate Conference – from Wednesday June 29 to Sunday July 03, 2022. The Accelerate Conference is a spiritual development and personal advancement conference, designed...
The Association of Mass Communication Graduates of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State has concluded plans to mark its 30th graduation anniversary on July 1 in the school AMACOG 92 is an association of 1992 graduates of the then Ogun State Polytechnic, Abeokuta, now known as MAPOLY. The...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Chairman of The All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Ali Bukar Dalori on Friday inaugurated the 8- man Special Reconciliation Committee for the party in the state. The special reconciliation committee which was constituted last week comprised of high calibre party stalwarts...
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Kebbi has impounded 2,820 donkey skins worth N48 million. The Command’s Area Controller, Mr Joseph Attah, made this known in Birnin Kebbi on Friday while handing over the donkey skins to officials of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service. He said the items were...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky greeted his country’s status as a candidate to join the European Union (EU) as a turning point in a video address released on Friday. “Ukraine is not a bridge, not a cushion between the West and Russia, not a buffer between Europe and Asia, not...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it sees no need to cancel or postpone mass events this summer due to the unusually high number of monkey pox cases. “We have learnt that mass gatherings do not amplify transmission by themselves, it is the behavior during events that matters,’’ WHO...
Dr Mohammad Barkindo, the Secretary-General, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said one of its cardinal achievements was the launch of the inaugural OPEC Africa Dialogue in June 2021. Barkindo made this known on Friday in a letter he addressed to Mr Anibor Kragha, the Executive Secretary, African Refiners...
The desperation to save the life of their daughter yesterday landed former Senate Deputy President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka, in London detention. They now face charges bordering on organ harvesting, which attracts a 10-year jail term. The alleged offence involves removing parts of the body against...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- A man simply identified as Ibrahim is being hunted down by the Police in Bauchi for allegedly removing the eyes of 16-year old boy in the state. Following the receipt of the information, the Bauchi State Police Command has immediately begun a manhunt for the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Theater Commander, JTF Operation Hadin Kai, Theater Command Headquarters, Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri, Major General Chris G. Musa has inaugurated the 4th Special Court Martials to trial of some of the accused persons that were convicted and awarded various punishments in accordance with provisions...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, submitted his technical working group’s report to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The technical working group was set up by the Presidential Committee on Repatriation, Return and Resettlement of displaced persons in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has debunked some rumours making the rounds that it discovered multi-billion naira cash in the house of the former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai. The ICPC, however, said it recovered N170 million cash,...
African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship candidate for River State, Tonte Ibraye, has nominated popular Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, as his running mate. Tonto Dikeh announced her nomination on Instagram on Friday, while sharing their government’s plans if elected into office during next year’s election. When elected, she said the...
A total of 227 soldiers involved in the fight against insurgency within the North East of Nigeria have been brought before a General and Special Court Martial set up by the military, for various cases of misconduct. The Theater Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, Major General Christopher Musa disclosed...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – About 35,000 scholars in public tertiary institutions have benefitted from the TETFund scholarship for academic staff programme which commenced in 2008. Acting Director of Academic Staff Training and Development, Abdullahi Imam, who stated this when the representatives of the TETFund scholars paid a courtesy...
Mrs Eriken Uzoamaka, the Programme Manager, Homegrown School Feeding Scheme, Anambra State, has said the death of 10 cooks of the scheme hampered the running of the programme in the state. Uzoama disclosed this while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a two-day capacity building workshop organised by the...
The Supreme Court has given a ruling on a suit seeking to void the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022. The apex court struck out the suit by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami asking it to void the section...
The Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dr. Fatima Waziri-Azi, says there is more of internal trafficking than external trafficking. Waziri-Azi disclosed this on Thursday in Benin at a meeting she held with stakeholders and partners of the agency in Edo. She explained that...
Some 23 million Nigerian children have received the seasonal malaria chemoprevention, aiding reduction in severe malaria in children in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari made the declaration on Friday in Kigali at the Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The summit is part of activities at the...