By JOY ADARA, Abuja – At least 5 Prospective Corps Members have lost their lives in a car accident on the Abaji-Kwali highway in Abuja. The Director of Press and Public Relations at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Adenike Adeyemi, confirmed the incident via a statement, noting that...
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The reported remark by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin at the just concluded 47th session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, calling on Western countries to reflect deeply on their own human rights abuse, has again brought to our consciousness the troubling realty that despite the...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Obong of Calabar’s Council, His Eminence Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu V, has refuted the widely publicized claim of a bus gift, circulated on newspapers and social media over two weeks now to have been given to the Palace by Senator Gershom Henry Bassey...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has approved N12.8m as support for 641 candidates currently at their final stage of exercises to qualify for recruitment into the Nigerian Army’s 81 regular intake for 2021. Governor Zulum announced the support on Wednesday, while addressing the...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Global Environment Facility (GEF) said the United Nations (UN) – Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) had warned that people in northern Nigeria are at risk of acute food insecurity. The UN-FAO projected that an estimated 13 million people in the area face...
Ugandan police on Wednesday said they were interrogating a weightlifter who disappeared in Japan after failing to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, as his family appealed for his release from custody. Julius Ssekitoleko, 20, vanished from an Olympic training camp after learning he did not meet standards to compete...
A Kaduna State High Court has freed the embattled leader of the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife. In a ruling that lasted over eight hours, the presiding judge, Justice Gideon Kurada upheld the no-case submission filed by Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife...
from YUSUFU IDEGU, Jos – Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalong has advocated for rural electrification in communities in the state through the deployment of solar mini grid system. In a statement by the Director of Press, Gov Lalong made the case for mass electrification of his state rural...
A Financial Expert, Mr Okechukwu Unegbu, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to be cautious of its recent “blanket’’ ban placed on Bureau de Change (BDC) operators from foreign exchange (forex) trading. Recalled that the CBN announced immediate discontinuation of forex to the BDCs over rent-seeking behaviour...
A 32-year-old man, Olaniyan Faromoju, alleged to have obtained N1 million by false pretext from a micro finance bank, was on Wednesday arraigned before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The defendant, whose address was not provided, pleaded not guilty to the charge of obtaining under false pretenses....
Federal Ministry of Water Resources has declared Buruku Local Government Area (LGA) in Benue open defecation free (ODF), having met the requirements slated in the ODF protocol for hygiene promotion. Recalled that Buruku LGA had earlier failed the first validation requirements and thereafter represented itself, making it the 62nd...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disbursed a total sum of N2,660, 740, 632.40 billion to the six Area Councils in the FCT and other stakeholders as its share of statutory allocation for the month of June 2021, The figure shows that there...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the victory of Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last governorship election in Ondo State. In the majority judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, four of the seven-member panel, dismissed the appeal by Eyitayo Jegede and his party, the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says it has released the sum of N756.51 billion to 3,734,938 small holder farmers, cultivating 4.6 million hectares of land, to boost the Federal Government’s food security initiative. Mr Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor, made this known while presenting a communiqué from the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has been conferred as the Grand Patron of the Organization of Military Sports in Africa (OSMA), and also Chief Host of forthcoming Sahel Military Games. The OSMA President, Brigadier General Maikano Abdullahi conferred the title...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Senator Basheer Garba Muhammed, has promised to improve synergy and collaboration with stakeholders and partners in order to completely make Nigeria a trafficking free nation. This was even as he...
Roost Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation, has sought partnership with Delta Government to tackle human trafficking and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the state. The Executive Chairman of the foundation, Mrs Julie Okah-Donli, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Roost foundation is a counter-trafficking Non-Governmental Organisation...
Pic.1. D’Tigers’ Jordan Nwora (L) in action during a Group B men’s basketball match between Nigeria and Germany which ended 99-92 in favour of Germany at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan on Wednesday (28/7/21). D’Tigers will take on Italy in their final group B game on Saturday.03424/28/7/2021/BJO/NANPic.2....
A real estate expert, Mr Jide Odusolu says the Nigerian housing sector which remains the largest real estate market in Africa requires more collaboration for it to thrive. Odusolu spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, on the side-line of the on-going 15 International...
The Zamfara State House of Assembly has given the Deputy Governor, Barrister Aliyu Gusau, a 48-hour ultimatum to appear before it over allegations of official misconduct levelled against him. He is to appear before the House over a political rally conducted on July 10, amid banditry attacks on Maradun...