By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Troops of 195 Battalion, Sector 1 Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), in conjunction with Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) on a clearance operation within Muna general area of Borno state, have captured two Boko Haram Terrorists and recovered assorted items and utensils meant for BHT...
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Egypt has criticized Ethiopia’s decision to begin filling the reservoir behind its giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile for a second year. The Egyptian irrigation minister, Mohamed Abdel Aty, said he’d received official notice of the filling from Ethiopia and had categorically rejected it. He said in a...
One of Mali’s former President Ibrahim Keïta’s son, Karim, is wanted by Interpol over the disappearance of a journalist in 2016. The local journalist, Birama Touré, went missing after reaching out to Karim for a comment in a story he was covering that would have been damaging to his...
Over a week ago, Nigeria’s Senate President Ahmed Lawan granted an interview to State House correspondents in which he said Nigeria has no choice than to borrow to finance infrastructural development. This week, we will x-ray the Senate President’s statement and offer alternative views that Nigeria has other options...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recent declaration with excitement that it has received 42,211 online applications nationwide within the 24 hours of the resumption of its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), naturally jogged my memory of a reported comment credited to President Muhammadu Buhari, few days after 2019 general...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government is to construct 300 Housing units of different categories and sizes with facilities at Miringa Community in Biu Local Government Area of the state. The State Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur stated this during the laying of block foundation for the construction...
Philippine security forces searched among coconut trees on a remote southern island Monday for the flight data boxes of an aircraft that crashed and killed 52 people in one of the country’s worst military air disasters. The C-130 Hercules transport plane was carrying 96 people, most of them recent...
By MARK JANG, Jos – The Chairman, Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), Prof. Muhammad Isah has commended the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), under Sir Joseph N. Ari for ensuring staff of the Fund were sensitised on assets declaration to ensure full compliance with its provisions. Professor Isah gave the...
The Federal Government says it has engaged 70 Independent Monitors to fast track implementation of the National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP) in Kebbi State. Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, disclosed this at the presentation of engagement letters and devices to the monitors,...
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Timipreye Sylva has revealed that attacks on oil and gas facilities across the country had reduced significantly since 2014. The minister stated this on Monday at a Town Hall meeting on Protecting Oil and Gas Infrastructure in Abuja. Sylva, who was represented...
U.S. President Joe Biden has commiserated with the people of the Philippines over the Air Force plane crashed which occurred in the country on Sunday. In a statement from the White House in Washington, offered his deep condolences to the people of the Philippines for the tragic incident. The...
The Minister of Environment, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, has revealed that Nigeria recorded 4,919 oil spills between 2015 to March 2021 and lost 4.5 trillion barrels of oil to theft in four years. Abubakar disclosed this at a Town Hall meeting in Abuja, organised by the Ministry of Information and...
The convict In his confessional statement, dated May 6, Gideon admitted that he engaged in dating scams, love scams and other Internet fraud related offences,” A Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, has sentenced one Oke Gideon 20, to one month imprisonment for Internet fraud and romance scam....
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – Kwara State Government on Monday identified farmers’ census through digitisation of agricultural value chain as a key parameter to ensure the success of the State’s Agricultural Transformation Plan launched earlier in the year for effective planning and support to the sector in the state....
The Lagos House of Assembly on Monday passed an amended version of the Criminal Justice Law of the state barring the police from parading suspects before the media. The bill was passed through voice votes conducted by the Deputy Speaker, Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, who presided over the plenary session on...
Nigeria will be competing in nine sports at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics scheduled from July 23 to Aug.8. The Paralympians will be competing in four sports from Aug. 24 to Sept. 5. The first batch contingent of Team Nigeria will on Tuesday depart Abuja for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), has put in place plans to strengthen collaboration in the areas of manpower development and research. The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello who disclosed this when he received a...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Ambassador Maryam Katagum, on Monday collapsed at an official event in Bauchi. The Minister who was in Bauchi to launch an empowerment programme at the NAADI Office, Sani Mallam Shopping plaza in Bauchi metropolis was said...
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has pledged the Bank’s readiness to increase its development finance interventions to further support start-ups and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country. Emefiele made the pledge while delivering the 51st Convocation Lecture of the University of...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Governors from the Southern part of Nigeria jointly agreed on Monday the country’s next president should emerge from the southern region The Southern leaders also set September 21, 2021, as the deadline for the promulgation of anti-open grazing law among its member states. Chairman...