ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed, has relaxed the 24 hours curfew imposed on three communities in the state following violence that erupted in Yelwa Tsakani. The governor relaxed the curfew by 12 hours – from 6pm – 6am. Recall that violence had erupted in...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has committed about N7 billion to its various intervention projects in Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi, from 1999 to date. The Chairman of the Governing Council and Pro-Chancellor of BSU, Sebastine Hon, SAN, made this known on Tuesday...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has appealed to the international community to put pressure on the Federal Government to address the unabating acts of terrorism by armed herdsmen in the country without religious or ethnic bias. He said at the moment, it appears that...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi No fewer than 1,549 out of every 100,000 women in Bauchi State die during childbirth, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Air Marshal Saddique Abubakar (rtd), has said. He stated this during an interacting with journalists in Bauchi, on the heels...
French authorities were warned three days before Saturday’s 2021/2022 UEFA Champions League final match that thousands of Liverpool fans would come to Paris without tickets, a report claimed on Tuesday. They were also warned that some of the fans would try to get into the Stade de France with...
A sleeping driver has killed his conductor in an accident on Ihiala-Owerri Road, Anambra, on Tuesday. Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi, Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in Anambra, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka. Irelewuyi said the accident which occurred at...
King Felipe, Queen Letizia of Spain send condolences to President Buhari over Port-Harcourt stampede
King Felipe, Queen Letizia of Spain send condolences to President Buhari over Port-Harcourt stampede
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain have sent condolences to President Muhammadu Buhari on the recent church stampede in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In a message addressed to President Buhari and signed by His Majesty the King, Felipe VI, the Monarch wrote: ‘‘Mr...
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday depart Abuja for Madrid, Spain on a State Visit at the invitation of the Spanish President, Pedro Sanchez. The president’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. According to Adesina, at a separate meeting during the visit,...
With a significant cut in its impairment charges (which translates into a clean loan book) in its 1Q, 2022 results, after it successfully brought down its non-performing loan to 6.1 per cent in 2021 full year performance, analysts say the repeat of the impressive performance of FirstBank in the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has charged Governors of the All Progressives Congress to ensure that the forthcoming convention to pick a presidential candidate reflects all the values and virtues of the party. At a meeting Tuesday at State House, Abuja, the President told the 22...
President Muhammadu Buhari has met behind closed door with members of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, was also part of the meeting,...
Lionel Messi says there can be “no doubts” Karim Benzema will be a worthy Ballon d’Or winner after the Real Madrid star cemented his frontrunner status with Champions League glory. The France international is the favourite to succeed Messi as the next recipient of the game’s most prestigious individual...
BY RICHARD ABU, Abuja – The Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Wali Jibrin has expressed happiness over the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the flag bearer of the party in the forthcoming 2023 general election. Senator Jibrin in his congratulatory...
The United States has no connection with the recent outbreak of monkeypox in Nigeria, the American embassy in the country has said. It explained that the U.S. government has continued to support Nigerian health authorities with technical assistance and funding to tackle disease outbreaks such as COIVD-19 and monkeypox,...
Nepalese officials on Tuesday confirmed that all the 22 people on board the plane that crashed on May 29 were killed after rescuers found and recovered the final body from the wreckage. Spokesperson for Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said that they are waiting for favourable weather to transport...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, admitted Sen. Rochas Okorocha to bail in the sum of N500 million with one surety in like sum. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, said granting bail was a discretionary power of the court. Justice Ekwo said the surety, who must have...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to support the Nigerian Navy’s regional collaborative efforts to secure the Gulf of Guinea for enhanced economic development. President Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Defence Maj Gen Bashir Salihi Magashi (rtd) gave the pledge in a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The need for media and information experts to be responsive and patriotic on issues relating to national security has been re-echoed as a catalyst for a united, secured and peaceful Nigeria. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya affirmed this on...
Sen. Bola Tinubu, a frontline presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday appeared before the party’s John Odigie-Oyegun-led seven-man Presidential Screening Committee. According to a statement issued by Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director-General Tinubu Campaign Organisation, the former two-term Lagos State governor answered questions bordering on his...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Two serving Senators in Bauchi State have failed in their bid to return to the Senate as they lost out in the senatorial primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The affected lawmakers are Senators Adamu Bulkachuwa and Senator Lawal Yahaya Gumau representing North and...