PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Over 10 shops and goods worth millions of naira were reportedly destroyed by fire in Igoli, Ogoja Local Government Area in Northern Cross River. An eye witness Udam Joe said the incident occurred on Friday night at No. 29 Mission Road, Igoli-Ogoja. One of the...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has directed the profiling of 3,000 families to be provided with farming packages that would include improved seeds, fertilizer, water pumps and chemicals to safely return to farms which would be secured by the Nigerian military. Governor Zulum...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has warned Forestry Officers in the state to stop selling cattle routes as a way of preventing farmers’/herders’ clashes which sometimes lead to loss of lives and properties. He said this in his speech while flagging off the 2021 farming...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday began preparing the Nigerian financial sector, through a Town Hall meeting, to take full advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement. The meeting, organised via a webinar, emphasised the need for the sector to reposition and play a...
Ms Khadija Nuhu, the UNICEF, Spotlight Initiative Communications Coordinator, has urged journalists to help in promoting the advocacy toward elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in the country. Nuhu made the call on Monday in Yola, at a dialogue with media practitioners on ethical reporting, advocacy and...
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has asked the Federal Government to apologise to Sunday Igboho after officials of the Department of State Services invaded his home and killed two of his associates. The DSS invaded Igboho’s house in Ibadan, Oyo State, early on Thursday based on intelligence it said it...
Governors of the southern region are holding a meeting in Lagos on the state of the nation. The meeting is a follow-up on the earlier meeting in Asaba hosted by the Delta state Governor where the governors agreed on far-reaching conclusions on open grazing, restructuring Nigeria, and calls for...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – WikkiTimes, an online news blog, has insisted that the story it wrote alleging that the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara connived with the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC) to “squander” N1 billion school renovation money is true and factual. This was...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday announced that it has registered 56 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 167,859 confirmed cases. As at Sunday, 4 July, 2021, the public health agency recorded no...
The Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Slovenia complete the Men’s Olympic Basketball Tournament field for Tokyo 2020 by winning their respective FIBA Olympics Qualifying Tournaments (OQTs). The final matches were played in the OQTs which ended late on Sunday, with the last of the four in Victoria, Canada. The...
South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, on Sunday, lashed out at the judges who gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry. Zuma compared them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought. He spoke at his home in Nklandla, in a rural part of...
About 136 students in a high school have been infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. During the latest national COVID-19 update, 136 out of 550 samples taken among students in Achimota School came out positive, said Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, Director-General of the GHS....
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Troops of the Joint Task Force in the North-East have killed 11 terrorists and recovered a cache of arms, ammunition and a truck laden with petroleum products during fierce encounters in Borno. In a statement in Abuja, The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema...
Oil prices have hardly moved at the start of the week, as a cautious market awaits stalling talks between the major oil-producing nations on future production policy. A barrel (159 litres) of North Sea Brent cost 76.18 dollars on Monday morning, about the same as on Friday. The price...
Armed bandits have attacked a private school located at Maraban Rido area in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting an unspecified number of students. It was learnt the incident took place in the early hours of Monday, June 5, 2020. The kidnappers were said to have invaded...
Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest Pan-African airline, has become Africa’s top airline in passenger and freight traffic retaining its leadership position in the continent. According to the African Airlines Association’s (AFRAA) report, Ethiopian has been ranked first by passenger and cargo traffic in 2020. Ethiopian carried 500 thousand tons...
It is no longer news that recently, the Director-General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Sir Joseph N. Ari, officially presented the ITF Mobile Android GSM smart phone to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The DG said at the presentation that the ITF mobile phone, which...