Gunmen have attacked a police station in Uzoakoli, Bende Local Government Area of Abia State. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday. The spokesman of the Abi State Police Command, Geoffrey Ogbonna, who confirmed the attack to newsmen, said an investigation has commenced to unravel the perpetrators...
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There was mild drama on Monday morning as security officials locked the gate of the National Assembly and refused to allow members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to gain entrance. The lawyers are on a peaceful march in solidarity with judiciary workers who are protesting financial autonomy. They...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Imaan Sulaiman Ibrahim, said human trafficking constitutes a major National Security concern that requires new ideas and initiatives to tackle the menace. The NAPTIP Director General called for the establishment...
The Interim Administrator (IA) of Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) Rtd Col. Milland Dikio says the era of violence and arms struggle in the Niger Delta region is over. Dikio made this known on the graduation of 200 delegates of PAP at in Bradama International Skill Works Ltd., Agadagba-Obon in...
Two nurses were confirmed dead on Sunday while 10 others sustained injuries in a lone accident involving a Toyota Hiace bus around Akinale Village on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. The Spokesperson of Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria...
A financial expert says the provision of security, large scale farming and intervention in manufacturing sector are key factors in tackling the rising inflation rate in the country. Mr Niyi Akinsanya, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. NAN reports...
Nine militants have been killed and three others injured in cleanup operations conducted by government forces in Marja district in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. Provincial police said in a statement released on Monday. A large number of arms and ammunitions were also seized from the Taliban hideouts in the...
A former Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mike Ejiofor has warned that the 2023 general elections would not hold over the worsening security situation in the country. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday, Ejiofor asked the Federal Government to urgently tackle...
I came to know and work with the Tukurs closely in 1983 when the patriarch of the family got elected as Governor of Gongola State. The relationship ought to have started earlier because I was in Yola the Gongola State capital when he returned from Lagos where he had...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, was all too charitable in responding to the medieval hypothesis of Mr. Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state who recently said that the Federal Government printed naira notes for sharing. Emefiele should never have dignified Obaseki with any response...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monay announced that it has registered 26 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 164,233 confirmed cases. As at Sunday, 18 April, 2021, the public health agency recorded no...
Gunmen have shot dead 54-year-old Ifeanyi Godfrey during an attack on the office of an All Progressive Congress chairmanship aspirant in the Ijede area of Ikorodu Lagos State, Oluwatosin Onamade. It was gathered Oluwatosin and his workers, including his brother, Oluwafemi, were at the office when the gunmen suddenly...
The Federal Government recorded N485.51bn fiscal deficit in January, statistics obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria have shown. According to the monthly economic report for January released by the CBN on Friday, the low revenue performance in January was due to the decline in non-oil receipts following the...
The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, has said contrary to the views in some quarters, the President Muhammadu Buhari has not failed Nigerians. Governor Masari who spoke in a Television Continental interview monitored in Abuja on Sunday, however said Nigerians should commend Buhari for tolerating “rubbish from...
The Progressives Governors’ Forum, PGF, says recent comment made by Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki that the Federal Government printed sixty billion Naira to augment March revenue allocation to states is misplaced. A statement by the Chairman and Governor of Kebbi state, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu says governor Obaseki’s...
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers has been declared the winner of all the chairpersons and councillorship seats contested for in the State local government election held on Saturday. The announcement was made by the State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, in Port Harcourt on Sunday. However, one of the...
File photo of the Minister of Defence, Major-General Bashir Magashi (rtd). The Defence Minister, Magashi Bashir, has said that Federal Government would soon commence recruitment of officers and soldiers across the country. Speaking at the headquarters of the Theatre Command in Maiduguri when he led The Chief of Defense...
A United States Army Veteran, Major Adebayo Adeleke, has warned of a worsening insecurity situation in Nigeria. Speaking during an exclusive interview on Channels Television’s Diplomatic Channel, Adeleke said the security challenges are slowly degenerating into the war going on in Afghanistan, where the US and allied troops are...
Europe’s football ruling body UEFA is set to approve sweeping Champions League reforms on Monday and has issued a stern warning to clubs amid a latest Super League threat. Sources told dpa that clubs from England, Italy and Spain were part of the latest plan, and news reports spoke...
The Kwara Government on Sunday said its health insurance scheme is getting a grant support of $99,000 from the Jiddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Olubunmi Winter, disclosed this in a statement in Ilorin. He said the IsDB is supporting the enrolment of...