By YUSUF IDEGU, Jos – The Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalong has said within the last six years he has extended the frontiers of peace, security and good governance under his rescue administration in the state. Gov. Lalong said such deliberate policies has taken the state to a...
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By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – First Bank of Nigeria Limited announces its lead sponsorship of the movie titled ‘Ayinla’, which is billed to premiere on Sunday, 13 June 2020. The movie is suspense-driven, narrating the life of Ayinla Yusuf, popularly known as Ayinla Omowura (an Apala musician), his rise...
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has led his administration to the delivery of 556 projects in two year, The Commissioner for Information, Babakura Abba Jato announced on Saturday. The Commissioner made the announcement in his evidence-based presentation at a ceremony to mark Democracy Day, which was attended...
Fellow Nigerians, I join you all today to commemorate and celebrate our Democracy Day. It is a celebration of freedom and a victory for one people, one country and one Nigeria. As with all democracies we will always be going through improvement processes in our desire to reach the...
The Chief Imam of the University of Benin Central Mosque, Prof. Biliaminu Ayinde, has warned that war was never a solution to the prevailing challenges facing the country. Iman Ayinde gave the warning on Friday in his Juma’at sermon ìn Benin. According to him, the aftermath of war is...
The National Association of Nigerian Students on Friday said it has suspended its planned June 12 protest, citing concerns of the safety of the protesters and the fear of a possible hijack by politicians. The President of the association, Mr Sunday Asefon, said while every Nigerian has the right...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers state says his administration had spent N9 billion on upgrading structures and installation of new equipment at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH). Wike, who disclosed this, on Friday, at the foundation laying ceremony for a Renal Centre at the RSUTH, in Port...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Kwara (NSCDC) has recovered corpse of a woman who was alledgedly killed by suspected ritualists at Kanikoko area of Kaiama in Kwara North. The Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Babawale Zaid, who confirmed this on Friday in Ilorin, named the...
The Osun Police Command has arrested one Kabiru Oyedun, 39, for being in possession of a dismembered body parts of a yet-to be identified woman for money rituals. The Osun Police Commissioner, Mr Olawale Olokode, while parading the suspect with the body parts of the victim on Friday in...
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, has appealed to the political class in Nigeria to demonstrate and uphold the tenets of democracy in all their endeavours. Kalu, in a goodwill message issued on Friday in Abuja to commemorate the 2021 Democracy Day, commended Nigerians for embracing democracy,...
By YUSUFU IDEGU, Jos – The Director General and Chief Executive of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Sir Joseph Ari has said Nigerians would soon enjoy drastic drop in the price of Android Smart phones across the country’s markets. Sir Ari , who noted this in a statement signed...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Friday inaugurated Barrister Salman Jawondo as the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and charged him and other public office holders in the state to keep their oath of office. In the Governor’s words, “your re-appointment is...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Borno State, Hon Yusuf Adamu has commended the Federal Government for giving an approval for the augmentation of Biu Dam and Kano Irrigation Projects amounting to N8.8 billion. Recalled that the two uncompleted projects...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Following the devastation posed by members of dreaded Boko Haram sect which left many people including security operatives sustained various degrees of fractures in the North East, a Bill seeking to establish National Orthopedic Hospital which is to be sited in Azare, the Headquarters...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – To commemorate this year’s Democracy Day, Nigeria’s President,. Muhammadu Buhari, is expected to address the nation on Saturday June 12. The national broadcast is scheduled for 7:00am, according to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President Media and Publicity), Femi Adesina, on...
A 2016 graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has secured foreign investment in excess of one billion naira, from creation of three startup companies. The UNN Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Charles Igwe, made the disclosure at the University’s 49th convocation ceremony on Friday in Nsukka. “I am happy to...
The management of Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic in Zaria, Kaduna State, has shut down all academic activities indefinitely. It also directs all the students to vacate the school with immediate effect This follows yesterday’s attack on the institution by bandits who kidnapped eight students and two lecturers from their hostels...
Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has donated 55 patrol vehicles and equipment to the police. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor presented the vehicles and other equipment to the I-G of Police, Usman Baba, on Friday in Abeokuta. The equipment are: 200 bullet proof vests,...