By YUSUF IDEGU, Jos – The Executive Chairman of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, Hon Chindo Gona has decried the incessant killings in the local government, declaring that the locality is under siege. Recall that Bassa Local Government has witnessed frequent attacks on its community within the...
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It has recently been reported that a father collected an HP laptop as bride price after giving out his 12 years old daughter in marriage. To a rationally minded human being, such incidence is nothing other than absurd and that alone also makes what is called fatherly love questionable...
A Magistrate’s Court in Yola on Thursday remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, 36, the son of late former President Musa Yar’Adua, in prison for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. Yar’Adua, a student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Yola, was charged to court for allegedly...
The Part 1 of this piece looked at the meaning of career development for mid- and senior level career positions. This Part 2 will delve into entry level career positions mostly for graduates, persons launching into the world of work or into new areas of work experience. In the...
The the 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure, on Thursday paraded two fake policemen, Nze Ezenwa and Stephen Sunday, and for being in possession of 132 bags of cannabis valued at N5.8 million. Parading the suspects, the brigade’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Captain Ayorinde Omojokun, said the two middle age suspects...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja -. Orji Kalu Foundation has announced scholarships for 2022 academic year to 650 students to study medicine and surgery in 12 selected Nigerian universities. A statement signed by Mrs Jemima kalu, Executive Secretary, Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation listed the 12 universities for the scholarship ....
The Federal Government has admitted that it is not in the best position to manage the nation’s refineries. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said during Channels TV programme, said the government would employ the service of professional managers to manage the refineries “I will agree with...
The Nigerian police have arraigned a young man, Joshua Adeyinka Kayode, (22), before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, for allegedly using a fake investment scheme to defraud 170 people to the tune of N10.7 billion. He was arraigned on Thursday before Justice Tijjani Ringim on 170 counts...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday announced that the country has recorded 566 additional COVID-19 infections due to a surge in the spread of the Delta variant in the country. The NCDC, which made this known via its website – www.ncdc.giv.ng,...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Governor of Kwara state, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq has restated his commitment to improve infrastructural deficit in the education sector in the state. Speaking at an education summit organised by the state government on Thursday, the governor said his government would continue to invest...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – VP Commends Zulum’s incredible achievements, lists COVID – 19 response, Security, Climate Change, Education, 4th Industrial Revolution, & AfCFTA, as priority areas Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that despite the current turbulent socio-economic conditions in the country, generating economic growth, eradicating poverty,...
File photo: Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi reacts during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and FC Barcelona at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, on March 10, 2021. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP) Argentine superstar Lionel Messi...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has ordered the Borno Police Command to immediately investigate a violent collusion between a joint security task force operating with the Borno Geographical Information System and some worshippers at a branch of EYN Church at Maduganari, in...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo has said that the Nigerian Navy is set to establish an outpost at Ikang and a naval security station at Dayspring Island. Both locations are in the Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River which...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Edward Kallon has called for global supports to address hunger and starvation challenges threatening the residents and internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North East Nigeria which have deeply affected by Boko Haram insurgency victims. Mr...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits terrorizing some parts of Zamfara State have abducted the father of the Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly, Alhaji Nasiru Muazu Magarya. According to an eyewitness, the gunmen invaded the Magarya community in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state on Thursday and...
A Nigerian Evangelist and General Overseer of Shekina Area Gospel Ministry and CEO of the Shikan TV, Evangelist Gospel Agochukwu has advised Nigerians particularly Christians to stop watching Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) reality TV show. In a video he posted on his verified Facebook page on Thursday, a renowned...
A Sudanese court on Thursday sentenced six members of a feared paramilitary force to death for killing six protesters during a 2019 demonstration over food and fuel shortages. The protesters, including four schoolchildren, were shot dead in July 2019 in the city of Al-Obeid in North Kordofan, sparking outrage...
Twenty-four Chadian soldiers were killed in an attack by suspected jihadists in the troubled Lake Chad region, a senior local official said Thursday. “Troops from a returning patrol were resting when they were attacked by Boko Haram” on Wednesday, the region’s deputy prefect, Haki Djiddi, told AFP. “Twenty-four troops...
Three staff members of AIICO Capital Ltd were on Thursday arraigned before an Ikeja Special Offences Court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly defrauding their employer, an investment company, of N1.4 billion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the staff members: Harriet Onome,...