The Police Command in Bayelsa has confirmed the release of Chief Gbalipre Turner by his abductors. The 70-year-old father of the Chairman of Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa, Mr Marvin Turner, was abducted on Sept. 5, at Kpansia, Yenagoa. In a statement on Saturday, the command’s Public Relations...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Force Commander, Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), Maj.-Gen. Abdul-Khalifah Ibrahim, has said Nigeria would to cooperate with her neighbours, to mitigate regional security challenges. Maj. Gen. Ibrahim gave the assurance at Nigeria’s 61th Independence Anniversary celebration organised by the Defence section of the...
The Police Command in Zamfara has announced the rescue of five family members of Zamfara Assembly Speaker, Nasiru Ma’azu Magarya, abducted by bandits on Aug. 5. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ayuba Elkanah, confirmed this while presenting the rescued victims before reporters in Gusau. Elkanah said the 16...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has joined the rest of Nigerians to celebrate the life and times of Professor Adamu Baikie, as he turns 90 on October 2, noting that the nonagenarian “is pride not only to Northern Nigeria but to the whole country”....
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Tears flowed freely as the remains of a couple, Pastor Kenneth Azifor and his wife Sandra, who died in a fatal crash along Darazo – Kari – Azare road of Bauchi state, 15 days ago, were laid to rest. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that Azifor,...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abubakar Suleiman, has stated that many problems like civil war, ethnic and religious crises, insurgency, banditry and kidnapping, have slowed down Nigeria’s growth and development. Suleiman who is also the Chairman of the Conference of Speakers...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has said that only a restructured Nigeria will help the nation regain her past glory. Makinde, who was speaking at the unveiling of a homegrown digital television outfit, SATVIEW Network, stated that it was unbelievable that Nigeria, which had...
Doctors in Lithuania said on Friday they had removed over a kilogram of nails and screws from the stomach of a man who started swallowing metallic objects after quitting alcohol. The man, who was not identified for reasons of patient confidentiality, was admitted to hospital in the Baltic port...
Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has called for the electronic transmission of election results in the country. He made the call on Friday during a national political summit in Abuja, ahead of the general elections in 2023. “Transmission of election results has...
Two sisters aged 5 and 7 spent several days in an apartment with the body of their mother who had died suddenly in northwestern France, the regional prosecutor said on Saturday. “Be quiet, Mommy is sleeping,” the girls told police officers who came to their apartment on Wednesday in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari will attend the inauguration of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for a second five-year term in office on Monday in Addis Ababa. The Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina disclosed this in a statement issued...
The United States reached the grim milestone of 700,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday evening, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. With the national case count topping 43.6 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 700,258 as of 8:21 p.m. local time (0021 GMT on Saturday),...
Philippine boxing icon and Senator Manny Pacquiao on Friday officially filed his certificate of candidacy for president in the May 2022 elections. Pacquiao, 42, is the first presidential aspirant to file his candidacy as the Commission of Elections opens the filing for politicians who plan to run. Pacquiao arrived...
Personal Journey as Ethnic RacistI was born here at Mkar, I was born a human being for all I cared. It was later I learned to be Tiv and was happy to be Tiv. To be Tiv feels so good. It is so good. I became a Tiv ethnic...
The Rwanda National Police on Friday paraded to the media 13 suspected terrorists who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks in different parts of the country. The 13 terror suspects were arrested in the city of Kigali, Rusizi and Nyabihu districts in the Western Province. Rwanda police worked with...
…To drive financial inclusion It was Sir Isaac Newton, in his letter to Robert Hooke in 1675, who wrote the now-famous quote: “If I have seen further (than others), it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” The shoulders of giants Sir Newton referred to has to do...
Dakunji community in Vwang District of Jos South Local Government Area in Plateau, on Saturday accused the military of invading the village to illegally arrest and brutalise a villager. Chairman, Dakunji Concerned Citizens Forum, Mr Pam Logyang, made the accusation at a news conference in Jos. Logyang said that...
British care home workers who are not prepared to get the COVID vaccine should “get out and get another job,’’ Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Saturday. Javid brushed off appeals from providers to pause the legal requirement for staff in England to be fully vaccinated, amid warnings some...
Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani-Bello has condemned the abduction of the Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Transport, Dr Ibrahim Musa and his son, in Zungeru town. Sani-Bello in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mrs Mary Noel-Berje, in Minna on Saturday, also condemned the murder of...