Gov. Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has approved salary increment for all district and village heads in the state. Mr Ibrahim Dasuki, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs stated this while addressing newsmen in Gombe on Friday. ”The increment is because of the pivotal role traditional leaders play...
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A 52-year-old man,Taiwo Salami, on Friday appeared in a hhg, Lagos, for allegedly defrauding an accommodation seeker of N300,000. The police charged Salami, who resides in Surulere Area of Lagos, with conspiracy, fraud and theft. He pleaded not guilty to the charge. The prosecution Counsel, Insp Christopher Okoliko, told...
The Police Command in Katsina State said it foiled an attack on Kirijam village in Mahuta community, Dandume Local Government Area of the state. The Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Gambo Isa, said this in a statement on Friday in Katsina. “On July 1, at about 11.00...
Ghana has abandoned plans to build a new Olympic Sports Complex to host the All-African Games in 2023, according to a Parliament statement in Accra on Thursday. The statement said the country’s Youth and Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif, told Parliament that rather than complete a new facility at Borteyman...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has granted a one-off one-month extension for the filing of Company Income Tax returns by taxpayers with December 31, 2020 accounting year-end whose statutory tax returns were due not later than June 30, 2021. This extension was contained...
Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo, has condoled with families of slain soldiers at the 34 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army, Obinze. The governor said this when he visited the Brigade as part of activities marking the 2021 Nigerian Army Day. This is contained in a statement by the Brigade’s Public...
The Kano, Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has handed over one Sabo Suleiman to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for further investigation. The command comptroller, Mr Suleiman Umar, who made this known while beefing newsmen in Kano, said the suspect was arrested in possession of...
By OOREOFEOLUWA KALEJAIYE, Lagos – Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) is pleased to announce that it has received approval for seven derivatives contracts from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, 28 June 2021. The approved contracts are: Access Bank Plc Stock Futures, Dangote Cement Plc Stock Futures, Guaranty...
I know he is an academic, a Professor and former Rector of Borno State College of Agriculture. He was also Commissioner for Reconstruction under the immediate past Governor Kashim Shettima. But where did this man called Babagana Umara Zulum emerge from? How come he is doing unusual, uncommon things,...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday announced that it has registered 74 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 167,692 confirmed cases. As at Thursday, 1 Julu, 2021, the public health agency recorded one...
By Lekan Agboola, Ilorin – The Kwara State Government has commenced another round of the state-wide free medical and surgical outreach for no fewer than 3200 residents of the state. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq disclosed this yesterday in Offa while flagging off the year 2021 government-sponsored free state-wide medical and...
The Chairman, Rivers State Chapter of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Mr Joseph Obele, has expressed his dissatisfaction over the three per cent oil derivation take approved by the senate for oil producing communities. Obele, in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Port...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested no fewer than 13 suspects when it raided the Ibadan residence of Mr Sunday Igboho. The DSS spokesman, Dr Peter Afunanya, who disclosed this at a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja, said the operation was...
The Kano State Government, has urged industrialists in the state to embrace the Virtual Gas Pipeline System before the take-off of the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) project. The state’s Chairman, Committee on NNPC-AKK Pipeline Delivery and Industrialisation Project, Mr Muazu Magaji, made the call in Kano while engaging officials of the...
Without an urgent injection of cash, billions globally risk still being without lifesaving access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services by 2030, says the UN in a new report published on Thursday. Latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed that...
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) can be prevented, and it can be stopped, so that millions of women and girls can enjoy their lives to the fullest, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has said. In a video message during a high-level panel event on FGM at the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division/Commander Sector 1, Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), Brigadier General Abdulwahab Eyitayo has lauded troops’ fighting spirit and doggedness, especially in recent encounters with Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) and its splinter group, ISWAP,...
The Worth of Your Online Presence Having access to the digital space as you do is a big deal, given that lots of other persons do not have any access. Some of us burn hundreds or thousands of Naira weekly or monthly to be online. And because of personal...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Bazoum Mohammadu on Thursday, hosted Governor Babagana Zulum alongside Governor of Diffa region, Isa Lameen, Senator Abubakar Kyari and Speaker of Borno State House of Assembly, Abdulkarim Lawan in a closed door meeting in Diffa Town. Diffa Province is located within close proximity...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto State Governor has excercised his prerogative of mercy by freeing no fewer than 32 inmates from the Sokoto Correctional Center with different degree of offences. The excercise carried out by the State Committee of the Prerogative of Mercy was to enable some...