By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau- The Zamfara Commissioner of Police, Mr Ayuba Elkanah has visited the Gusau correctional centre, to beef up security around the facility and avert any security threat. The state’s command spokesman, SP Muhammad Shehu, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Gusau....
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The European Union (EU) misspent more than 4 billion euros (or 4.6 billion dollars) in the 2020 budget year, an assessment by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) published on Tuesday. The ECA audits states to confirm whether the EU budget was spent in compliance with the bloc’s rules....
Google has launched the Global Initiative for Excellence in Journalism Education to enhance journalists’ training in 100 Journalism institutions in Africa. Matt Brittin, President for EMEA Business and Operations, Google made this known at the ongoing inaugural Google News Initiative (GNI) for Africa virtual event. The News Agency of...
A court in Seoul on Tuesday handed down a fine of 60,000 dollars(70 million won) against Samsung Group heir Lee Jae Yong. Lee was fined for illegal use of an anesthetic medication over a period of years South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. The illegal substance is said to...
Mr Tony Ojukwu, the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, has urged the Police and other security agencies in the nation’s capital to do everything within their powers to locate a missing journalist. Tordue Salem, a Vanguard Newspaper’s House of Representatives Reporter reportedly went missing on Oct....
Like every new invention which comes with opportunities and challenges, there was a veiled agreement among participants at a recent gathering(annual lecture) in Asaba, the Delta state capital, that with strict adherence to the tripod of ethics, professionalism and quality service in the delivery of journalistic mandate as publishers...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday at about 11.50pm for the Future Investment Initiative Institute conference. The Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. According to the statement, the...
Sudan’s Information Ministry said on Monday that the civilian government, led by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, is still the legal transitional authority in the country and denied the dissolution of the cabinet. The constitutional document grants the right of declaring the state of emergency in the country only to...
Japan on Tuesday launched a new satellite into orbit to replace the aging first quasi-zenith satellite, which has been providing accurate global positioning data for services such as autonomous driving cars and flying drones. The new satellite, loaded in an H-2A rocket, was launched at 11:19 a.m. local time...
At least one person died and several were wounded in an explosion on Monday on a bus near the Ugandan capital Kampala, police said, as President Yoweri Museveni suggested it was caused by a bomb. Another explosion in the capital on Saturday killed one person and injured three others,...
Crowds protested into the night in Sudan on Monday to denounce a military coup, with chaos engulfing the capital Khartoum after soldiers opened fire on demonstrators and reportedly killed three people. Sudan’s top general declared a state of emergency and dissolved the government — one of several similar takeovers...
The United States on Monday suspended $700 million in aid to Sudan after a military takeover and urged the immediate restoration of a civilian government. “The civilian-led transitional government should be immediately restored and represents the will of the people,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. “In light...
The APC State Congress Appeal Committee for Lagos State, has appealed to aggrieved members of the party to reunite against infiltration by the opposition. The Chairman, State Congress Appeal Committee, Alhaja Fatima Umar, made the appeal at a special meeting with stakeholders to resolve all fallouts from its Oct....
The Nigerian Navy, on Monday, took delivery of four ballistics gunboats to boost its fight against oil theft and sea robbery which has been commonplace in the Niger Delta. The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Leo Irabor, stated this at the induction of the gunboats that the four armoured...
The new Head of Delegation for the European Union (EU) and the ECOWAS , Ms Samuela Isopi, has said that over two million people remained displaced from their homes in the northeast of the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja reports that, the envoy said this...
President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government is responding to the challenges and opportunities of the moment by articulating forward-looking policies and strategies to achieve national goals. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, stated this in a statement...
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has warned that the various criminal activities of kidnapping, bombing and assault on the people in parts of the country being referred to as banditry, must be appropriately addressed as terrorism. Akeredolu in a statement in Abuja, noted that infiltration of the country’s borders...
The Kogi state Commissioner for Environment, Chief Victor Omofaiye, has said that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic had led to environmental challenges and unemployment in the country. Omofaiye disclosed this at a one-day workshop, organised by the Environment Media Correspondents Association of Nigeria (EMCAN), in Abuja. He said...