By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has commiserated with the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar over the passing of his elder brother, Alhaji Buhari Abubakar III. Until his death at Usmanu Danfodiyo Teaching Hospital, Sokoto after a protracted illness,...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- The Chief of Staff to Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, Professor Isa Marte, who is also the Commissioner of Health in the state, has said that malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. He argued that the 2020 World Malaria...
The Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle says his administration has released the sum of N1.2 Billion as State Government contribution to all donor assisted projects in the State. Out of the amount, 150 million Naira was released to the state office of Community and Social Development Projects CSDP for...
Fifty-eight people were killed in a fire that ravaged at a COVID-19 hospital in the Iraqi capital overnight Sunday, according to an official toll. “The number of deaths as a result of the Ibn al-Khatib hospital fire was 58, of which 28 were on ventilators” being treated for Covid-19,...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to investigate allegations that $30m safe school fund is missing, mismanaged and to bring...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The FCT Police Command has arrested six suspected armed robbers along the Kubuwa, Garki and Lokoja axis. The suspects who are involved in car snatching and robbery along the road were arrested by the command’s Anti-car Theft Unit. In a statement by the spokesman of...
The Kano State Hisbah Board and the Nigeria Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have agreed to collaborate to make Kano a drug-free state. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Hisbah Board, Mr Lawan Ibrahim, said this in a press statement he signed and released on Saturday in Kano. The...
The Plateau State Government is working to ascertain the actual number of civil servants in its employ. The new Head of Service (HoS), Mr Sunday Hyat, said this when the national executive of Gindiri Old Students Association (GOSA), his alma mater, visited him in Jos. He said: “Government is...
Popular Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Muyideen Bello, has urged Muslim faithful to stay away from any kind of sin that could keep them away from God, especially during the period of the Ramadan. Sheikh Bello gave the advice during the Annual Ramadan Lecture of Alhaja Idayat Bola-Muse, the Chief Executive...
“And AGAIN the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he MOVED David against them to SAY, Go, number Israel.” [2 Samuel 24:1] Since Israel became a nation in a strange land (Egypt) according to the will of God, there has been historical records of God’s anger...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says additional 9,255 people received their first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria on Saturday. The NPHCDA disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Saturday. It said that the additional inoculation brought the total number of vaccinated people in...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday announced that it has registered 51 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 164,684 confirmed cases. As at Saturday, 24 April, 2021, the public health agency recorded no...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Offences (NAPTIP) has reunited a victim of human trafficking with her family after 20 years. The Commander of NAPTIP, Benin Zone, Mrs Ijeoma Uduak, reunited the victim with her mother name (withheld) at the palace of...
The Police Command in Nasarawa State says it has begun investigation into the attack and murder of nine people in Ajimaka village in Doma Local Government Area of the state by gunmen. This is contain in a statement signed in Lafia on Saturday by ASP Ramhan Nansel, the command’s...
A 20-year-old man, Hamisu Ahmed, on Saturday drowned in an open water well at Samegu behind Sahad, Kano State. This is contained a statement issued to newsmen in Kano by Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, the Public Relations Officer of the Kano State fire Service. The PRO said that the victim...
The Zamfara State Government on Saturday said it was criminalising the sale of petroleum products in jerrycans or any other containers in some parts of the state. The move, the government believes, will help to curb the activities of black marketers linked to bandits in the state. “In furtherance...
The Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution of Victims for SARS and other related matters resumed its sitting on Saturday. During the sitting, a trader, Mrs Gift Effiong, told the panel that she has been looking for her husband since he left home during the #EndSARS protests last year....
At least 21 Boko Haram terrorists were killed on Friday after the insurgents attacked Geidam, a border town in Yobe State, according to an army spokesman. The terrorists, in their assault, destroyed three communications masts and looted some shops in the town. However, troops stationed at the town, supported...
By YUSUFU IDEGU, Jos- The Northern States Governors Forum says it is distressed with the killing of three of the students recently abducted at the Greenfield University, Kaduna State by some kidnappers. The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Bako Lalong while reacting to the...
Jacob could not become all that God wanted him to be until his name and character were changed. You remember his encounter with in the midnight with that angel at the bank of Jabbok River. After that wrestling match with God, his name was change from Jacob (supplanter) to...