It is Palm Sunday, an annual feast in the Christian calendar that marks the transition from Lent into the Holy Week that leads up to Easter. Palm Sunday symbolises the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, where he triumphantly rode on a donkey a week before his resurrection. The...
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The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has condemned the murder of security operatives and attacks on facilities in some states of the federation. Adamu, in a statement issued on Sunday via his spokesman, Frank Mba, said no murder will go unpunished. “No murderer will go unpunished,” the IGP said...
The sacked and factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State, Chief Onyekachi Nwebonyi, and other executive members of his faction from ward to the state levels, as well as the party members, have resigned their membership of the party and declared for the All Progressives Congress....
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the currently insecurity bedeviling the country is as a result of increasing youths unemployment. Atiku said this in reaction to a report by Bloomberg which predicts that Nigeria will emerge as the nation with the highest unemployment rate on Earth. According...
As part of the preparations towards the anticipated launch of electronic voting in forthcoming elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission says it has commenced the analysis of the various electronic voting machines showcased by over 50 companies. It added that it was looking forward to the amendment of the...
Islamist militants have seized control of a town in northern Mozambique, killing several people including at least one foreign worker, and forcing France’s Total to suspend operations at a huge gas project.Advertising The attack on Palma began just hours after Total said on Wednesday that it would resume work...
Two suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding fourteen people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, the country’s National police said. The congregation had been inside the church on the island of Sulawesi at...
The Imo State Police Command have arrested a commercial motorcycle operator for allegedly raping his passenger after forceful collection of her valuables. Briefing Newsmen in Owerri, The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Orlando Ikeokwu said the suspect who is now in custody had been previously accused and arrested for...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to investigate alleged misuse of the N4.5 billion donations, loans and support the Kogi State Government obtained from the...
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu on Saturday suggested that reducing the cost of governance is not a one-way street. The former Lagos State Governor made the remark while speaking at the 11th Arewa House Annual Lecture in Kaduna state. “Cost of governance is always...
Last year, when he turned 56, Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba decided to celebrate it in a low-key fashion with family members and aides. This year is not different. The approach is even more muted-no pomp, no ceremony. The only engagement, perhaps,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja- President Muhammadu Buhari rejoices with astute administrator, scholar and grassroots mobiliser, Professor John Egbe Enyi as he clocks 71 March 27, 2021. The President affirms that Professor Enyi’s belief in hard work, honesty and commitment to duty which he brings to bear in the academic...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- The Nigerian Army Headquarters on Saturday said its troops deployed in Chibok under 28 Task Force Brigade of Sector 1 Operation LAFIYA DOLE have neutralised scores of Boko Haram terrorists in an ambush along Chibok – Damboa axis of Borno state. The Director Army Public...
Residents of Maiduguri, Borno state capital are in the state of confusion following sudden blackout three days after Transmission Company of Nigeria managed to fixed the transmission lines destroyed by the insurgents about two months ago. The Humanitarian Times reliably gathered from an impeccable security sources that another transmission...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria maintained top of group L standings in the AFCON qualifier after a 93rd-minute winner from substitute Paul Onuachu on Saturday evening. The Nigerian side had already booked their place in Cameroon after Lesotho and Sierra Leone played out a 0-0 draw earlier in the...
The abductors of the eight members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Kaduna state have established contact with the leadership of the church in the state, demanding a ₦50 million ransom before they would release them. This was disclosed by the Public Relations Officer of the Church...
Islamist militants seized control of a town in Northern Mozambique, killing several people including at least one foreign worker, near a huge gas project involving France’s Total and other energy companies, security sources said on Saturday. Militants raided the town of Palma in the northern province of Cabo Delgado...
—Disburses N15,000 to 1000 vulnerable women– By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has flagged off an empowered project under the United Nations Basket Fund Support National COVID 19 Multi Sectoral Pandemic Response in Nigeria in collaboration with UN Women, NACA and the...
–Mulls emergency boreholes for affected communities– By BARBARA KALU, Enugu- Following the directives of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, a government team led by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Water Resources, Hon. Anthony Dubem Onyia and the Managing Director of EN-RUWASSA, Dr. Frank Omeje, have visited...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said the recharging of Lake Chad will help to reduce the irregular migration of youths striving to get into Europe through the Sahara Desert. He made the remark while hosting the President of Chad, Marshal Idris Deby Itno, at the State House in Abuja....