Libya’s government has condemned an attack on a court ahead of an appeal by the son of slain dictator Moamer Gaddafi against the rejection of his presidential election candidacy. The December 24 polls come as Libya seeks to turn a page on a decade of violence that has rocked...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a school principal, identified as Joshua Adeyemi, alongside four others along the Auga/Ise-Akoko Road in Akoko North-East LGA of the state. Adeyemi, the principal of Auga Community Grammar School, was abducted together with his vice, Ifedayo Yesufu,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Acting Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Isah Jere Idris, has declared the first batch of a-two-day Capacity Building Workshop for Public Relations Officers drawn from across Commands and Formations. The event held on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th November, 2021 at...
Former Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) President Carlos Arthur Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in prison for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. Judge Marcelo Bretas said the 79-year-old played a leading role in a scheme to buy votes for Rio de Janeiro to...
Israel and Britain have announced new travel restrictions on several African countries over concerns about a new Coronavirus variant. Israel reclassified South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia and Eswatini with immediate effect, Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett’s office said after a special meeting. Foreigners from these countries can no...
By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja – Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has said expressed optimism that the dredging of the the Lower Rivers Niger and Benue would provide over two million direct and indirect jobs to the masses upon completion. Governor Bello stated this on Thursday, while inaugurating the commencement...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A 20 year old man, identified as Yashua’u Shehu of Atakwanyo village in Kware LGA has been convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for raping a 3 years old girl (name withheld) in Sokoto without option of fine and also handed a five...
The Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ (FOUC) of the Nigeria Customs Service, Owerri, said it seized contraband worth N318.2 million between Oct. 13 and Nov. 14. The command’s Comptroller, Mr Ali Ibrahim, who disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri Thursday, said the command also arrested seven persons allegedly involved...
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has urged the new cadets of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to be patriotic and good ambassadors in fight against the menace of drug abuse in the country. Malami gave the advice when the newly-recruited...
At least 43 people were killed and 46 villages were burned and looted in Sudan’s West Darfur State, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan said on Thursday. “On Nov. 17, conflict broke out between Arab nomads and farmers from the Misseriya Jebel tribe...
Ralf Rangnick might have painful memories regarding his last football job in England. Roughly knocked over by an opponent player, the German amateur footballer and student of the University of Sussex spent three weeks in hospital. The defensive midfielder was forced into a four-month-long injury break. Not many might...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – On his second day of commissioning tour in Southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday commissioned a skill acquisition centre and a secondary school in Kwaya Kusar Local Government Area. The governor, after passing Tuesday night at Biryel in Bayo Local Government also spent...
There is no gainsaying that Nigeria is plagued with development challenges such as widespread poverty, insecurity, corruption, gross injustice and ethnic politics. Also, evidence abounds that the nation is in dire need of attention/support from, interventionist’s organizations (private and civil society organization), to help unleash economic development, promotes growth...
A yet-to-be-identified man and a woman suspected to be his wife, on Monday, escaped death by a whisker after ramming into two coffin shops around the Ikorodu General Hospital, in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the man was driving along the T.O.S...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decried the increasing cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria, saying it received over 139,780 complaints between 2020 and March 2021. NHRC Executive Secretary, Tony Ojukwu, stated this on Thursday in Abuja at an event...
Data by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) suggest that globally 81,000 women and girls were killed in 2020. The UNODC report further notes that around 47,000 (58 percent) died at the hands of an intimate partner or a family member, which equals to a woman...
The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) has said the current effect of climate change has made agricultural insurance imperative for all farmers in the country. Mr Andrew Uzomah, Branch Manager of NAIC in Enugu State, said this on Thursday in Enugu during the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a new Water Strategy for 2021-2025. In a statement on Thursday, the bank titled the five-year water strategy as: “Towards a Water-Secure Africa’’ and said it was approved on Nov. 17. It...
Katsina State Governor Aminu Masari has flagged off the construction of Kofar Kaura and Kofar Kwaya interchange bridges in the state at an estimated total cost of N5,714,353,312.5. The governor, while flagging off the project on Thursday, said it was a historic moment to witness the commencement of such...
The Gombe state chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied report alleging mass resignation of its ward executives in Yamaltu/Deba Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Mr Moses Kyari, the state APC publicity secretary disclosed this when he addressed newsmen on Thursday in Gombe. Kyari was reacting...