The Controller General of the Federal Fire Service, Dr Liman Ibrahim, says the lack of fire safety management in the country poses a threat to national security. Ibrahim said this at the opening of the 11th National Fire Conference on Monday in Jos.He said: “Anything that threatens the physical...
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The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday began a one-week security awareness and sensitisation workshop for its officers from across the federation. Declaring open the event in Jos, Mr Joseph Ari, the Director-General of the fund, said the workshop was...
The head of the Federal Service of Military‑Technical Cooperation, Dmitry Shugayev, on Monday said Russia has developed a system of counter measures against sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies. He said that the system is aimed at protecting Russian weapons in the global market and foreign...
Ghana has started its first fully digital national Housing and Population Census (PHC) on Monday in a bid to capture the exact number of population for better national development. Ghana’s last census was done in 2010, which put the number of the population at 24.6 million. The 2020 census...
The Chief Medical Director of the Yola Specialist Hospital in Adamawa, Mr Dauda Wadinga has confirmed that a store was razed in a fire outbreak at the facility. Wadinga, who confirmed the incident in Yola, said the caused of the fire was still unknown. He said the fire started...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) will, on July 6, arraign Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), at the Federal High Court, Abuja, for alleged N900 million fraud. Justice Obiora Egwuatu fixed the date on Monday, after counsel to the ICPC,...
Reactions have continued to follow the recently released results of the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination ( UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Some candidates and parents who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Bwari, Abuja, expressed...
A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered that a farmer, Job Ogigbo, be remanded in a correctional centre in Makurdi for alleged culpable homicide. The police charged Ogigbo, who lives in Obi Local Government Area of Benue with conspiracy and culpable homicide. Magistrate Erdoo Ter did not take the plea of...
Vincent Akinbami, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Sports Development to Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun, says the increasing rate of hooliganism in the Nigerian football league is worrying. Akinbami told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that drastic action was needed against cases of hooliganism at...
The Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven on Monday announced his resignation a week after a no-confidence vote against him in parliament. Lofven, a Social Democrat, said at a press conference that he had decided against called fresh elections in the light of the Coronavirus pandemic. It was the first...
The anti-terror and constitutional affairs bench of the Ethiopian Federal High Court on Monday sentenced the killer of the east African country’s former army chief to life imprisonment. Ethiopia’s late army chief, Seare Mekonen, was killed by his bodyguard Mesfin Tigabu on June 22, 2019, as part of what...
Pope Francis on Monday met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the pontiff’s first face-to-face interaction with the new administration of President Joe Biden, who has been challenged by US bishops. Blinken, on a tour of Europe, had a private audience with the Argentine pope after meeting with...
No fewer than 18 All Progressives Congress (APC) governors are expected to receive Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara on Tuesday. The Chairman, Publicity Sub-Committee of the organising ceremony and Zamfara Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Ibrahim Dosara, disclosed in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau...
A 28-year-old trader, Pious Amos, on Monday appeared in an Upper Area Court, Zuba, Abuja, for allegedly using fake N1,000 to buy suya. The police charged Amos, who lives in Tunsan Kwaso, Abuja with using counterfeiting note and cheating. The prosecution counsel, Chinedu Agada, told the court that the...
U.S. strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least seven Iran-backed militiamen, a Britain-based monitoring group said on Monday. The U.S. Pentagon said on Sunday that President Joe Biden had ordered the airstrikes against Iran-backed militia groups in the border region. The facilities were used...
United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has congratulated the people of Djibouti on their 44th independence anniversary which fell on Sunday. In a statement, he said the United States and Djibouti are partners in fostering security, stability and peace in the Horn of Africa. “We commend Djibouti’s leadership...
The Speaker, Anambra House of Assembly, Mr Uche Okafor, says the emergence Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, as the flag bearer of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the Governorship election as most deserving. Okafor, in a congratulatory message to the APGA candidate in Awka on Saturday, said that Soludo...