By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Police Command have confirmed the arrest of a Bus Rapid Transport(BRT) driver, Andrew Nice, in connection with the death of 22-year-old Oluwabamise Ayanwole. NATIONAL ACCORD has reported that the 22-year-old lady was found dead on Monday on the Carter Bridge by...
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BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto State Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has elected new leaders to stir the affairs of the chapel for the next three years. Speaking before the election which was held at their Dogin Daji office around Central Bank of...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State on Monday inaugurated a 13 member Administration of Criminal Justice (ACJL) Committee to ensure speedy dispensation of all criminal cases in the state. The ACJL committee, through speedy trials of criminal cases will also help decongest the crowded correctional center in the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), formerly Nigerian National Corporation (NNPC) has expressed interest to participate in the acquisition of the power plants put up for sale by the Federal Government through the Nigeria Integrated Power Plants (NIPPs). Managing Director of NNPCL, Mallam Mele...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday, chaired the inaugural meeting of a Presidential Committee on the Repatriation, Returns and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North-East, which was recently constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari to facilitate safe return of displaced Nigerians mostly from...
The Government of the Republic of Benin has released Yoruba Nation Activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Ighoho. Professor Banji Akintoye, a Yoruba Leader and Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide’s Umbrella Body of Yoruba Self-determination Groups, and Professor Wale Adeniran, a French Language Expert/Deputy Alana of...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it is investigating six accredited Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres for alleged exploitation of candidates in its ongoing exercise. The board disclosed this in the Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar, JAMB on Monday,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has joined entertainers in the music and movie industry, particularly Nollywood, in celebrating with veteran actor, script writer and movie producer, Pete Edochie, on his 75th birthday. The President’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement by his spokesman, Mr Femi...
The 22-year-old lady, Oluwabamise Ayanwole, who got missing in transit on Feb. 26 while on a BRT bus in Lagos has been found dead. Police spokesman in Lagos State, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday that Oluwabamise’s corpse was found on Carter Bridge...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked the rumours making the rounds on social media that President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the party’s caretaker committee and its chairman, Mai Mala Buni. The National Secretary of APC’s Caretaker Committee, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, who disclosed...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) on Monday said oil and gas companies liabilities to the Federation Accounts as at Dec. 31, 2020 was N1.32 trillion. Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, the Executive Secretary, NEITI made this known in Abuja at the public presentation of reports on Oil, Gas...
Russia will immediately stop its military operations if the Ukrainian authorities amend their country’s constitution to abandon their ambition to enter “any bloc,” and recognise the Crimean referendum and the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). The Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told Reuters...
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to declare open the 70th annual council meeting of West African Examinations Council (WAEC) next Monday in Abuja. WAEC’s Head of National Office (HNO) in Nigeria, Mr Patrick Areghan, disclosed this at a news conference on Monday in Lagos. According to him, the annual...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The first Secretary of the Nigeria Football Association (since 1958) late Etubom Orok Oyo popularly known as “Mr. Football” is to be immortalized by family and friends after 14 years after Federal Government’s unfulfilled promises. To this end, the family with support from friends and...
Former head coach of the Nigeria national football team, Samson Siasia has faulted Austin Eguavoen over the Super Eagles 25-man list for this month’s crucial 2022 World Cup qualifiers against the Black Stars of Ghana. Recalled that the interim coach, Austine Eguavoen released the names of the 25 players...
The President, Women in Mining Nigeria (WIMIN), Hon. Janet Adeyemi, has said no female Artisanal, Small Scale Miners had benefited from the N5 billion mining intervention loan. Hon. Adeyemi made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. She said that...
Ukraine has called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to do everything in its power to stop the violence against the backdrop of Russian attacks, “Russia is perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity,’’ the representative for Ukraine, Anton Korynevych, said in The Hague on Monday. “Russia has...
The Nigerian Army says troops of ”Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK)” eliminated 17 Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Damasak, Mobbar Local Government Area of Borno. Damasak, the main town of the Mobbar Local Government Area, is located near the confluence of the Yobe River and Komadugu...
Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered that embattled police cop, DCP Abba Kyari and six others be remanded in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) till March 14. Kyari was arraigned on Monday morning before Justice Emeka Nwite where he pleaded not guilty to charges...
Suspended police officer Abba Kyari on Monday pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges brought against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The NDLEA had filed eight counts of hard drugs trafficking against Mr Kyari, who is also wanted in the United States for his relationship...