Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has announced the closure of all weekly markets in the state as part of measures to address worsening security situation in the state. Gov. Matawalle announced this after receiving 18 kidnapped students of the State’s College of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Bakura. The governor...
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A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), known as Integrated Health Programme (IHP), has donated medical equipment, worth millions of naira, to the Ebonyi Government. The state Coordinator of the NGO, Dr Gladys Olisaeke, presented the items on Friday, when she led members of the group on a courtesy visit to the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – At least 3 persons have been killed while many sustained injuries in an attack in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the attack in a statement issued in Kaduna....
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Friday said truck overload is the major cause of road failure and accidents in the country. He stated this during his tour of Federal Government assets in Lagos State, noting that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is making efforts to...
Another 32 students out of the 63 remaining abducted students of Bethel Baptist school in Chikun Local Government area of Kaduna State have regained their freedom. Although the Kaduna State Government and police authorities are yet to confirm the development, a top official of Baptist School told Channels Television...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says the country will not disintegrate in spite of the current challenges it is facing. Obasanjo made the assertion in Lagos on Friday at a book lunch in honour of His Eminence, Sunday Mbang, Prelate Emeritus of the Methodist Church Nigeria. The launch of the...
The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has given reasons why it appointed Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El Rufai as its Patron, the third it appointed since 2012. President of the NIPR, Mukhtar Sirajo, gave the reasons in a message to the investiture of the governor on Friday in...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says is examining ways to bring much-needed supplies into Afghanistan with medical stocks dwindling in the country and Kabul airport crippled by a terrorist attack. Dr Rick Brennan, senior official, Regional Emergency Director, WHO Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, told journalists on Friday at...
Ghana Government has received a sum of 1 billion U.S. dollars from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to boost its post-COVID-19 economic recovery, the Ministry of Finance said in a release on Friday. The package is part of the fund’s 650-billion-dollar package approved to support the post-COVID economic recovery...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Following the Presidential applause for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on its posting of ₦287bn profit after tax in the 2020 financial year, the Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari, has given an insight into the measures adopted by his management to achieve...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Zulum on Friday launched the Borno State E-commerce platform developed and adopted by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation during the flag off of SMEDAN’s conditional grant scheme. SMEDAN’s Director General, Dr. Dikko Umaru Radda was commended by the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Friday in Maiduguri, launched the 2021 Nationwide Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS) provided by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, (SMEDAN). 2,160 entrepreneurs benefitted from the scheme with each getting N50,000 to enable small...
The abducted students of the College of Agriculture and Animal Science Bakura, Zamfara State, have regained their freedom, 12 days after gunmen whisked them away from the institution. Recalled that gunmen had stormed the institution around 11:00 pm on August 15 and kidnapped 20 people – 15 students, four...
Manchester United announced on Friday they have reached a deal to re-sign Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus, 12 years after he left Old Trafford for Real Madrid. “Manchester United is delighted to confirm that the club has reached an agreement with Juventus for the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo, subject to...
The Kogi State Government has purchased the first hospital based Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment (HBOT) chamber in Nigeria, a facility service that could only be got on treatment abroad. Dr Saka Audu, the Kogi Commissioner for Health, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Lokoja, explained that the purchase...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has approved for the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to have only 5,000 spectators at next week’s FIFA World Cup qualifying match between Nigeria and Liberia. Ademola Olajire, NFF’s Director of Communications, said in a statement on Friday in...
World football governing body FIFA has appointed Togolese official Kouassi Attiogbe, as the referee for next Friday’s FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying match between Nigeria and Liberia. The Match Day 1 fixture in the qualifying competition, is scheduled for the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos. The match between...
The Federal Government is set to distribute N8.5billion under its Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme to lift over 144, 000 households out of poverty in Katsina State. Katsina State Coordinator of the Scheme, Alhaji Shafi’u Abdullahi, who gave the figure in an interview with NAN on Friday in Katsina, stated...
Kylian Mbappe arrived at the training ground of French clubside Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on Friday amid the expectation Real Madrid would push to complete his signing in the coming hours. Mbappe wore a white baseball cap and white T-shirt, and whether by accident or design that only fuelled anticipation...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has empowered about 500 rural women through the distribution of different varieties of improved seedlings to farmers in the six area council of the territory to enable them up-scale their production activities which was disrupted as a result...