Kaduna State College of Nursing and Midwifery has confirmed the death of one of its students, Lydia Dantata, in a petrol filling station fire opposite its Kafanchan campus. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that about 10 students of the school were caught in the fire at the...
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Spain coach Luis Enrique on Monday left veteran defender Sergio Ramos out of his Euro 2020 squad but called up centre-back Aymeric Laporte, who recently switched his football nationality. Ramos, the 35-year-old Real Madrid captain has struggled with injury this season and has featured just five times since the...
Some Masons in Jos have lamented the prevailing scarcity of labourers at construction sites in the area, blaming the situation on the commencement of the farming season. Some of the masons who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday said it had become very difficult to...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds have set a wedding date for next year after delaying plans due to the pandemic, The Sun tabloid reported Monday. Known for his colourful love life, Johnson would be only the second prime minister ever to marry while in...
Economic activities at Twon Brass, hosts to Agip’s Oil Export Terminal in Bayelsa have remained grounded as residents continued to occupy the premises of the oil firm even after power supply had been partially restored to the community. Residents had on May 14 disrupted activities at the oil firm,...
By YUSUFU IDEGU, Jos- Residents of Jos North and Riyom Local Government Areas of Plateau state have been throwned into mourning following a midnight attack by unknown gunmen which led to the death of 14 people. One of the attack took place at about 8pm last Sunday night in...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto- The Sokoto State Commssioner for Agriculture, Hon Muhammad Arzika Tureta is dead. The 62 years old Hon Arzika was until his dead a respected politician in Sokoto State. According to a transition and burial announcement personally signed by Governor Amimu Waziri Tambuwal on Monday, the...
Residents of Gauraka community in Tafa Local Government Area of Niger State have blocked the Abuja-Kaduna highway to protest the incessant cases of kidnapping in the community. The protesters burnt tyres and halted vehicular movement on the highway. They demanded that the state and Federal Government boost security in...
By JOSHUA AMADI, Jos- The Plateau State Police Command have confirmed the killing of seven persons by unknown gunmen, who attacked Dong Community in Jos South Local Government Area of the state on Sunday. The police spokesman in the state, ASP Ubah Ogaba, disclosed this in a statement issued...
India’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 300,000 on Monday. This makes it the third country after the United States and Brazil to cross the grim milestone as it grapples with a second wave of the pandemic. In the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry recorded 4,454 deaths related to coronavirus,...
The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj-Gen Danjuma Ali-Keffi has described the death of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and others as a great loss to Nigeria. Maj. Gen. Ali-Keffi made this known on Monaday during post-funeral prayer, known as Fidau, held in the family house of the...
At the present moment, no nation best typifies a country in dire need of peace and social cohesion among her various sociopolitical groups than Nigeria adding that over the years, myriads of sociopolitical contradictions have conspired directly and indirectly to give the unenviable tag of a country in constant...
No fewer than 100 security officials in Afghanistan have been arrested over alleged negligence of their duties after the Taliban attacked the capital of Eastern Laghman province, officials said on Monday. The militants were able to break through the security belt of the provincial capital, Mehtarlam, on Sunday night....
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs in Bauchi state, Nuhu Zaki has petitioned the Police over alleged defamatory statements made against him by a popular islamic cleric in the state, Imam Idris Abdul’aziz, who alleged in a sermon during the Ramadan that he and...
FMDQ Securities Exchange Ltd has announced the admission for listing the BUA Cement Plc N115 billion series 1 fixed rate senior unsecured bond under its N200 billion bond issuance programme. The issuance, the first by BUA Cement, becomes the largest corporate bond issued in the Nigerian Debt Capital Market...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin- Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has received a report of the committee that investigated the unlawful salary payment to 48 disengaged Sunset’s teachers for the month of March, noting that appropriate actions would be taken against anyone implicated in the heist. The Governor had set...
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the national flag be flown at half-mast in all public buildings, facilities, and official residences across the country. The directive is with effect from Monday to Wednesday, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, announced in a statement on...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday announced that it has registered 40 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 166,019 confirmed cases. As at Sunday, 23 May, 2021, the public health agency recorded no...