ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Altine Dauda, the wife of the 33-year old man who was allegedly arrested and tortured to death by a combined team of policemen from the Yelwa Division and a vigilante group, has fainted and has been hospitalized, NATIONAL ACCORD has learnt. Recall that the deceased,...
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By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Obowu of Keana, Dr. Mike Omeri, has congratulated the Aren Eggon, HRH, Mr. Bala Abaine Angazo, on his 40th anniversary in ascending the revered throne of the Eggon people. The Obowu, in his congratulatory message, said the Arena Eggon has displayed a charismatic...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – A group in the Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Integrity Group, loyal to the Information and Culture minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has kicked against consensus arrangements being proposed by a faction of the party in the state for the...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has again cautioned Nigerians against the use of hand sanitizers especially Nutricional S, de R, L De C.V containing methanol. The warning is contained in a public alert with No: 20/2021 tagged “Recall of Hand Sanitizers by DiBAR...
Late Singer, Lanre Fasasi, a.k.a Sound Sultan, had urged Nigerians to celebrate people while they were alive. This was his last appeal on his Instagram before he died on Sunday of throat cancer Sound Sultan said it was necessary to give accolades to people while they were alive instead...
The Society of Energy Administrators (SEA) has raised an alarm over threat of collapse of several Lagos bridges due to weight of articulated vehicles parking indiscriminately on them. SEA executives, led by its President, Dr Yekeen Adeboye, raised the alarm on Sunday during a courtesy visit to the Lagos...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a consignment of 26.15 kilogrammes of heroin with a street value of over N6.5billion at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos. The Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi...
By OVIE RUTH, Asaba – Operatives of The Delta Statr Police Command have arrested nine suspected members of the Aiye Confraternity, a secret cult, in Jeddo Community of Okpe Local Government Area of the state. In a statement on Sunday, the state police spokesman, DSP Edafe Bright, said that...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – All Progressives Congress(APC) Concerned Youths Forum, Dala Lawanti, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State has kicked against the cancellation of the party’s congress election across the state. The Forum also lamented on the extension of the tenure of the party excutives at all...
Mr Barnabas Bala-Bantex, the immediate- past Deputy Governor of Kaduna State during the first tenure of Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, has died at the age of 64, a family source confirmed. Mr Banta Bala, eldest son of the deceased, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview...
An explosion has killed four people in a Sudanese Red Sea port city, officials said Sunday, the latest in a series of violent incidents in the area. Tensions have been simmering in recent days in Port Sudan where anti-government protesters have reportedly blocked roads over rising insecurity. Local media...
Israel’s former Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has officially vacated his official Jerusalem residence early on Sunday, nearly a month after he was ousted by his successor Naftali Bennett. “A little after midnight the Netanyahu family left the residence on Balfour [Street],” a spokesman for the family told journalists in...
Superstar Lionel Messi won his first trophy with his national team as Angel Di Maria’s goal gave Argentina a 1-0 win over hosts Brazil in the Copa America final on Saturday. The victory at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium ended Argentina’s 28-year wait for a major trophy, and also...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Chairman of the Senate committee on power, Senator Gabriel Suswam, has expressed serious worry about the level of borrowing that Nigeria under the Buhari administration is engaged in. Speaking in an interview in his Abuja residence at the weekend, Senator Suswam, who is the...
Pope Francis greeted supporters for prayers on Sunday from the 10th floor balcony of his hospital where he is recovering from colon surgery. “I am glad to be able to keep the Sunday Angelus appointment, even here” at the hospital, he said. “I have deeply felt your closeness and...
Nigerian singer, songwriter, actor and movie producer, Olanrewaju Fasasi, popularly known as Sound Sultan is dead. According to a statement released by the family and signed by his sibling Kayode Fasasi, the 44-year-old singer died from “a hard-fought battle with Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma”. He is survived by a wife...
Armed bandits have reportedly kidnapped the Emir of Kajuru and 13 of his family members, including two of his grandchildren, in a late-night attack in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The bandits swooped on the Emir in the early hours of Sunday morning, just six days after...
Democracy ought to be the rule of the majority, a system of Government where the will of the voting masses ultimately prevail. In a democracy too, the will of the people finds expression in their ability to choose their leaders and representatives without interference or circumvention. This is what...