Prof. Sunday Elom, Vice-Chancellor, Alex Ekwueme Federal University (AE-FUNAI), Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi state, has assured of adequate modalities and facilities for greater academic excellence in the institution. Elom, who gave the assurance in a statement issued to reporters in Abakaliki, on Saturday, by the institution’s spokesman, Mr Ikechukwu Ubochi, noted...
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By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI, Lagos – The GbaramatuVoice newspaper has announced that Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, former president Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State will be among dignitaries expected at its forthcoming 6th Anniversary Lecture/Niger Delta Awards. The event is...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has over the weekend, ordered the renovation of primary schools being attended by children of police personnel. Governor Zulum also gave the directive for the allocation of land to Police Officers Wives Association (POWA), for the establishment...
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied dismissed the government and froze parliament on Sunday, prompting crowds to fill the capital in support of a move that dramatically escalated a political crisis, but that his opponents called a coup. President Saied said he would assume executive authority with the assistance of a...
The Director-General (DG) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said the contributions of Nigerians at home and abroad could positively impact the nation’s economy to bring about peaceful coexistence. The DG said this at a webinar to celebrate the National Diaspora Day on Sunday, in...
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has impouded about 400 bottles of fake, substandard and injurious Mayonnaise cream in Abakpa-Nike Community Market in the Enugu metropolis. A statement by the Public Relations Officer of SON in Enugu, Paul Iorkyaa, said the raid was carried out after a complaint of...
A fully-loaded passenger bus has veered off a highway and crashed in Croatia, killing ten people and injuring at least forty-five others. The accident occurred at about 6:00am on Sunday near the town of Slavonski Brod on the highway between the capital, Zagreb, and the Serbian border, local police...
Governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would on Monday meet in Bauchi, to deliberate on unemployment and the state of the Nigerian economy. The Director-General (D-G), PDP Governors Forum (PDP-GF), Hon. CID Maduabum, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja. Hon....
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has called on the northern leaders to unite and end the incessant banditry and kidnapping ravaging the region. Governor Matawalle made call in a presentation: “Fight against banditry in North West, Nigeria; challenges and solutions”, at the annual lecture by Arewa Media Writers Association...
Big Brother Naija, BBNaija season 6 housemate, White Money has revealed that he was once a commercial motorcyclist to make money. White Money revealed this while speaking to other housemates. According to him, he had to ride Okada at some point in his life to survive. He also mentioned...
The Kaduna State Police Command on Sunday said it have arrested five suspects over alleged unlawful possession of firearms. The spokesman of the command, ASP Mohammed Jalige, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said that their arrests followed a report received by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO)...
As the trial of the leader of the proscribed IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, resumes on Monday, a former federal legislator who authored and co-sponsored the Terrorism Act Amendment Bill of 2013, Kayode Oladele, has called for a procedure which disallows those charged with terrorist acts from using the trials as...
A federal lawmaker, Sen. Ibrahim Gobir (APC-Sokoto) has said that zoning of political positions remains a fundamental right of citizens to address sectional democracy. Gobir, Chairman, Senate Committee on National Security and Intelligence, who represents Sokoto East Senatorial District in the red chamber, made the assertion while briefing newsmen...
A police officer in Democratic Republic has shot a student who was not wearing a mask while filming on the streets of the capital, witnesses said on Sunday. “Our friend Honore Shama, a student in the faculty of arts at the University of Kinshasa, was filming a video as...
The Federal Government of Nigeria is set to partner with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) to empower 20 million Nigerian youths by 2030. The initiative tagged: “Generation Unlimited” and set to be inaugurated on Monday in Abuja, is targeted at 20 million persons between the ages of 10...
EZEKIEL OBI, Lafia – The police authority in Nasarawa State, has apprehended a fake Naval Officer, identified as Nasiru Ahmed This is contained in a statement signed by ASP Ramhan Nansel, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, on behalf of Bola Longe, the Commissioner of Police...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The secondary school at the centre of controversy over the death of Keren Akpagher, Premiere Academy Lugbe, Abuja, has pushed back on allegations of sexual harassment leading to the death of the 14-year-old SS1 student. Acting Principal of the school, Mr Chris Akinsowon, in...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has said that unless the Federal Government urgently addresses the six remaining agreements it signed with the Union, it would soon resume its suspended industrial action. ASUU Chairperson, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Dr. Ibrahim Inuwa, made this...
Nigeria’s D’Tigers failed to sustain the tempo they started with and fell by 17 points to Australia in their opening Group B game of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics basketball event. The Boomers took the initiative in the second half after Nigeria made it a close game in the first...