The Federal Government in partnership with the Sokoto State Governments are set to return over 50,000 Nigerian refugees from Niger Republic. The refugees are mainly from the eastern parts of Sokoto state, especially from Sabon Birnin and Isa Local Government Areas of the state. The lawmaker representing Sokoto East...
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The death toll from several migrant shipwrecks off the Tunisian coast has risen to 17 people, a judicial official said on Sunday. On Saturday the Tunisian coast guard said four boats, carrying 120 African migrants headed for Italy, had sunk off the coast near the city of Sfax. Another...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday directed the security and intelligence agencies to intensify their clampdown on illegal refineries to safeguard lives of citizens. The president gave the directive in a statement issued in Abuja by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu. The presidential aide...
The Speaker of Imo House of Assembly, Mr Kennedy Ibeh, has extended his greetings to catholic women and all women in general on the occasion of their Mother’s Day celebration. The speaker, who extolled the unique role of mothers as part of his goodwill message for the occasion on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of NDLEA have successfully foiled a fresh attempt by Brazil-based drug cartels to smuggle cocaine into Nigeria in tea bags. In a statement issued on Sunday, the NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, said the latest attempts were foiled at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International...
A suspect paraded by the NDLEA in Kaduna on Saturday for being in possession of Indian hemp seeds says they were for the consumption of his poultry birds. “I have a poultry farm and was told that if I feed the chickens with Indian hemp seeds, they would grow...
Mrs Sally William-Chinebu, former South East Zonal Woman Leader, APC has advised female technocrats to sensitise grassroots electorates to resist money politics for emergence of credible leaders. William-Chinebu, Country Director, Nigerian Parliamentary Israel Allies Caucus made the call at the maiden virtual workshop of Coalition of Professional Women in...
According to exclusive investigations by SaharaReporters, a report by the Nigeria Police Force has exposed how Wema Bank Plc offered bribe to the police officer investigating the N1.7billion illegally moved to account number 0122367964 domiciled in the financial institution and operated by one Isaac Adewole, a pastor of the...
No fewer than two commanders and 32 fighters of Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists have been killed following a renewed clash in Sambisa Forest in Borno State. A counter insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, disclosed this in a series of tweet, said separate clashes of the terror groups occurred at...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over the failure to unblock the phone lines of over 72 million telecommunication subscribers barred from making calls on their SIMs.” Joined in the suit as respondents are Mr...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sule Lamido on Saturday said the consensus decision reached by “some Northern Elders” does not reflect the position of PDP members in the North. Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed and former Senate President Bukola Saraki said on Friday that they had emerged...
A cleric, Pastor Dan Horn on Saturday night urged Nigerians to pray to God to intervene in the current challenges facing the country. Horn, the Pastor of the Reformation Baptist Church, South Carolina, U.S., said this while speaking at an interdenominational crusade held in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is preparing to welcome U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin to Kiev on Sunday as a delegation from Washington makes a visit to the embattled country. The announcement came as Russia continued to bombard Ukrainian cities on Saturday. Amid...
The first lady, Aisha Buhari, has urged political parties to always consider women as running mates to candidates contesting elections into various positions across the country. Buhari was speaking on Saturday night when she hosted Presidential Aspirants from various political parties to a Ramadan (Iftar) breakfast at the State...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), stakeholders in the academia, the public sector and enthusiasts of technology for development, have deliberated on the benefits derivable from emerging technologies such as Blockchain, to advance the growth of the Nigerian economy. At a recently-organised two-day workshop by the Commission, in collaboration with...
Following the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, his wives may now be permitted to seek union with other suitors without undergoing cleansing rituals. According to beliefs in Yoruba tradition, wives of traditional rulers, either separated or still married are not at liberty to lay...
By OlA MODUPE, Lagos – Lagos State Police Command has said its operatives have arrested a suspected cultist, Adedotun Jelili aka Baba Ibeji and his gang members in Ikorodu. Baba Ibeji, the 25-year-old cult leader is said to have received a honorary award in January 2022. A statement released...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – A former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has described the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, as an auspicious era in the ancient Oyo Kingdom, the Yoruba and the entirety of the black race. Tinubu in...
Scores of people were on Saturday burnt beyond recognition following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Rivers, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Mr Idris Musa, Director-General, National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), who confirmed the incident, to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),...
Bayern Munich on Saturday won a record-extending 10th consecutive Bundesliga title with a 3-1 home victory over second-placed Borussia Dortmund. They thus became the first side in a major league to do so. Juventus previously managed nine Serie A championships in succession but Bayern Munich are the first to...