By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has foiled a kidnap attempt and rescued victims in Dawaki area of Abuja. The Command’s spokesman, SP Josephine Adeh, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. SP Adeh said that the kidnap attempt was foiled...
Bode
Numerous Arab countries expressed their condolences following the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in a helicopter crash. Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, writing on X, offered his sincere condolences to the government and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Also...
The Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has said that students in federal tertiary institutions are the first to access the Student Loan Scheme application portal. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Fund, Akintinde Sawyerr, stated this on Monday during a pre-application sensitisation press conference in Abuja Sawyer, however,...
The President of the Court of Appeal , Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, on Monday said 99 panels were set up to sit on election petitions in 2023. Dongban-Mensem, made this known on Monday in Abuja at the opening of a- two-today workshop to review the 2023 Election Petition...
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan KC, has formally requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of Hamas in Gaza on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The charges stemmed from incidents that occurred from at least...
The Speaker of Delta House of Assembly, Mr Dennis Guwor, on Monday, said that Nigeria was due for state policing. Guwor, while speaking with the News Agency (NAN) in Asaba, said state policing should be because ”the locals understand the security situation of their environment”. ...
A Fidelity Bank compliance officer, Mr Ezekoli Ozoemenam, on Monday testified against a social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha) charged with six billion Naira money laundering. Ozoemenam, the fourth prosecution witness, was led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Mr Suleiman Suleiman. The...
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Rijiyar Zaki Kano, on Monday, ordered the remand of a 38-year-old man, Shafi’u Abubakar, in a corrections centre for allegedly setting a mosque on fire, killing 14 people. The defendant, who lives at Gadan Village in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday in Bama town flagged off three months training workshop for 781 teachers drawn from 19 LGC Education Authorities across the state. Represented by the Borno State Deputy Governor, Hon. Umar Usman Kadafur , the governor added...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Federal Government has urged all the state governments to ensure judicious and accountable utilization of the matching grant disbursed to them for implementation by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, made the call on Monday in...
The Organised Labour has agreed to attend the ”negotiation” meeting of Tripartite Committee on the Minimum Wage slated for Tuesday. The Vice President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr Etim Okon, gave the confirmation in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja....
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has extended his condolences to the government and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran over the passing of President Ebrahim Raisi; Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials in a helicopter crash. In a statement issued in Abuja on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Russian President, Vladimir Putin has mourned the death of Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi Recalled that President Raisi, aged 63, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and two others died following a helicopter crash in the country’s mountainous province of East Azerbaijan. President Putin in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday dismissed the application filed by ex-terrorist negotiator, Tukur Mamu, seeking a transfer from the Department of the State Service (DSS) custody to Kuje Correctional Centre. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, dismissed the application on the ground of insecurity of the...
Some financial and economic experts have advised the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to retain the lending rate of 24.75 per cent. The experts, who gave the advice in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja spoke against...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said its operatives have arrested 78 persons over suspected involvement in internet fraud in Imo and Enugu states. The Commission’s spokesman, Mr Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Mr. Oyewale...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested nine suspected oil thieves at an illegal refinery in a forest boundary between Rivers and Abia. The NSCDC spokesman, Babawale Afolabi, confirmed this in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja. Afolabi said that...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – Nigeria’s Folashade Adekeye has emerged as the Chairperson, Forum of the Directors of Oil & Gas Training & Vocational Education Institutes of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO). Adekeye, who is the Director, NNPC Academy, took over from the former chairperson, Mr. Abdelkader Guenone,...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, North-East Development Commission (NEDC), Ambassador Mohammed Alkali, has lamented that subregion is backwards in secondary school enrollment, pointing that it is just 15%, the second worst in the country. Ambassador Alkali said that due to the challenges...
A helicopter in a convoy carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has allegedly crashed in east Azerbaijan, according to several media reports on Sunday. Rescuers are trying to reach the site of the “incident”, state television reported on Sunday. There was no immediate elaboration on what happened to the helicopter,...