By HARUNA AHMED, Katsina – Operatives from The Katsina State Police Command have arrested five persons suspected to be supplying bandits with petroleum products, in addition to a suspected kidnapper in the state. The police spokesperson in the state, SP Gambo Isah, disclosed this in a statement issued to...
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D’Tigress, Nigeria’s senior women basketball team, on Monday in Yaoundé beat their Angolan counterparts 85-65 to advance to the quarter-finals of the 2021 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket Championship. In their final Group B game, the Nigerian side dislodged the Angolans who were leading the group to make it two wins...
Skambo Morisson, the chairman, Kaduna State Basketball Association has said the Federal Ministry of Sports and the Basketball Federation needed to do the right things that would enhance the development of the game in the country. He said that they came for the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) atheletes and...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – Ilorin Zonal Command of the EFCC says it has arrested 30 suspected internet fraudsters at Kwara State University, Ilorin. EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren who disclosed this in statement, said that the suspects were arrested following an intelligence report on their alleged involvement in...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade on Monday commiserated with the widow of late Brigadier General Anthony Ukpo (rtd), Mrs Salome Ufoma Ukpo and their children. Ayade, who was at the Calabar residence of the late former Military Administrator of Rivers State, consoled the family,...
The Concerned Igbo Stakeholders Forum (CISF) a pressure group has faulted the Northern Elders Forum (NEF)’s position that the North will hold on to power beyond 2023. Mr Chukwuma Okenwa, the spokesperson for the group said this in a statement in Enugu on Monday. Okenwa described such position as...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Kwara State Police Command has arrested two suspected ritualists, Femi Adeniji and Shittu Abdulmalik, with fresh human head in Amuyo Area, Offa. This Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), SP Ajayi Okasanmi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday in Ilorin. The statement...
On Thursday, September 16, 2021, headquarters of News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Abuja was formally renamed Wada Maida House, a befitting honour to a veteran journalist, who worked most of his life for the agency. Until his death, August 17, 2020, Malam Wada Abdullahi Maida, 70, was the Chairman...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As children continue to bear the brunt of the 12-year insurgency in the north-east of Nigeria, the European Union (EU) and UNICEF are working together to provide a community-based psychosocial services to 5,129 children aimed at improving displaced children’s mental health. The Communication Officer,...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Florence Obi has charged Nigerian youths not to sell their future to Nigerian politicians. Professor Florence Obi gave the advise during the commissioning of the administrative block of the Youth Council State Secretariat, at the premises of...
According to him, if the income from VAT ceases, the state government would be unable to pay salaries, pointing out that 35 per cent of the state’s earnings was from VAT. Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya has said that the move by governments of Lagos and Rivers to begin...
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has urged the people of Bonta and Ukpute communities in Konshisha and Oju Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the State to sheathe their swords and embrace peace. Governor Ortom stated this on Monday when he led top government functionaries, politicians and security chiefs on...
A group, under the aegis of Arewa Support Group, has thrown its weight behind Sen. George Akume’s bid to become the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is contained in a statement by Mr Shuaibu Mohammed, its Public Relations Officer (PRO), issued on Monday in Jos....
Naomi Osaka slipped out of the top five in the WTA rankings on Monday while Simona Halep, another former world number one, continued her slide by also dropping three places. Four-time Grand Slam champion Osaka fell from fifth to eighth as Halep, who married boyfriend Toni Iuruc last week...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the bill prohibiting open grazing in Lagos into law. The governor assented to the bill at the Lagos House on Monday. After passing the bill on September 9, the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa commended his colleagues for their passion to see that the...
The Adamawa Primary Healthcare Development Agency (ADPHCDA), in collaboration with UNICEF, says it will train 6,255 mothers on how to assess the nutritional status of their children. Dr Martins Ladu, the UNICEF Nutrition Officer, Bauchi State Office, disclosed this at the training of Local Government Executive Secretaries and their...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it recorded a total crude oil and gas export sales of $219.75m in May 2021, representing 180.29% increase on sales from the previous month of April 2021. This is contained in the May 2021 edition of the...
Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted fake and contraband goods worth more than N120 million in July and August in its Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’. The zone’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Jerry Attah, made the declaration on Monday in Owerri. He quoted the zone’s Comptroller, Mr Yusuf Lawal as...
The Adamawa State Police Command have confirmed the arrest of 21 suspects, in connection with the killing of seven persons, allegedly through witchcraft, in a village in Adamawa. Aliyu Adamu, Commissioner of Police in the state, at a news conference on Monday in Yola, confirmed arrest of the suspects...