A group of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyalists in Sokoto State has urged its leaders in the state to be neutral on all issues and resist all forms of impositions. The group named ‘Concerned PDP Members’, made the charge at a press briefing on Saturday in Sokoto. Speaking...
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Bishop Kukah Chief of Moro’a buried in Manchok, Kaduna Tears and tributes poured on Saturday in Manchok, Kaura Local Government in Kaduna State, when the remains of the late Chief of Moroa, Mr Tagwai Sambo, were laid to rest. The first class traditional ruler was 88 and had spent...
The Lagos State Government says the number of fatalities from the cholera outbreak in the state has risen to 35 following the last update, which reported 401 suspected cases and 15 fatalities. At the last count, the government said Lagos Island, Kosofe, and Eti Osa recorded the highest...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thundery and rainy weather conditions from Sunday to Tuesday across the country. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Saturday in Abuja forecast morning thunderstorms on Sunday over parts of Gombe, Bauchi, Borno, Adamawa, Jigawa, Taraba and Kaduna states. It envisaged thunderstorms over...
Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company (AEEPCO), operator of the Nembe Oilfields has resumed the production and export facility off Bayelsa coastline operation, shut due to oil spill from a loading mishap. Aiteo announced the resumption in a statement by its Spokesman, Mr Mathew Ndianabasi on Saturday The...
Portugal swept into the last 16 of Euro 2024 on Saturday after comfortably seeing off Turkey 3-0 and guaranteeing first place in Group F. Bernardo Silva’s fine finish in the 21st minute, a comical Samet Akaydin own goal shortly afterwards and Bruno Fernandes’s second-half tap-in gave Portugal...
The combined operatives of the Nigerian Embassy and a Senegalese-based NGO have in an overnight operation rescued 24 Nigerian girls who were subjected to sexual exploitation in Tamaccounda and Kedougou Regions of Senegal. Dr Salihu Abubakar, the acting Ambassador in the Nigerian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal disclosed this to...
Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir-Yusuf on Saturday directed security agencies to end thuggery bedevilling residents of Kano metropolis. Yusuf, who stated this during the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting in Kano, decried the recent surge in thuggery and clashes between miscreants locally called “Yan Daba” in parts of...
In 1989, the call of duty and pull of family necessitated that I travel from my London partial base to New York. I was checked in on a British Airways flight from London to New York. We were set to leave Heathrow shortly after the usual...
Gov. Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has commenced the distribution of N100 million donated by the state government to the victims of the recent inferno at the Sokoto central market. This is contained in a statement signed by Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Malam Abubakar Bawa, issued to newsmen...
The Police Command in Benue said a suspected vandal, Inalegwu Elias, was electrocuted when he attempted to vandalise a Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JED) transformer in Otukpo. The spokesperson of the command, SP Sewuese Anene, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two former staff of Union Bank in Makurdi over alleged stealing of N4,199,500 belonging to a deceased customer of the bank. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. According...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has congratulated the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for emerging as the 2024 “Best Public Tertiary Healthcare Facility of the Year” at the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence (NHE) Award Ceremony in Lagos yesterday. The NHE award (a global healthcare...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC) have arrested a syndicate of fake State House Staff in Abuja for alleged criminal conspiracy, false representation and employment scam. Its Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. He said operatives of the commission...
Emeritus Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has said that silence in the face of social injustice is a crime against the gospel of Christ and the nation. He stated this in Abuja at the inauguration of the Catholic Social Teaching (CST), programme for Catholic...
Oil theft: Nigerian Army destroys 14 boats in Abia, arrests suspects The Nigerian Army on Friday, destroyed about 14 illegal oil bunkering vessels arrested with stolen crude oil in the oil-bearing Asa Community of Abia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Army operatives set the vessels...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Police Command has taken swift action by detaining two police officers who engaged in an illegal duty that resulted in the tragic loss of a civilian’s life. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known in a statement on Saturday. Hundeyin...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja– Popular Afrobeat star, Davido, has announced that his longtime personal assistant, Lati, will serve as his best man at his upcoming wedding on Tuesday, June 25 in Lagos. The revelation came when a curious fan asked Davido on X (formerly Twitter) who his best...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has dismissed as misleading reports insinuating breach of its database. This is contained in a statement by Mr Kayode Adegoke, Head, Corporate Communications of the commission, on Saturday in Abuja. He said the data of Nigerians have not been compromised as being...