The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday directed its members across the country to occupy legislative houses from Wednesday next week. These include the National Assembly in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as well as the Houses of Assembly in various states of the Federation. According...
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Four students of the Federal University Dutsinma in Katsina State, have been suspended for their involvement in cultism. The Vice-chancellor of the university, Professor Armaya’u Hamisu Bichi approved their indefinite suspension with immediate effect. The Vice-Chancellors’ approval was sequel to the “Security Report” signed by the Acting Chief Security...
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development says, the COVID-19 vaccines that arrived the country would cushion the humanitarian challenges relating to the pandemic. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, said this in a statement issued by her media...
The Police Command in Benue has confirmed the killing of Dr Terkula Suswam, an elder brother of Sen. Gabriel Suswam, by gunmen at Anyiin on Tuesday evening. The confirmation is contained in a statement signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DCP Catherine Anene, on Wednesday in Makurdi....
The House of Representatives has called for improved welfare for troops and effective delivery of welfare packages across the ranks. This was the position of the lawmakers during plenary on Tuesday at the lower chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. They made the call following the consideration of...
At least ten people, including the two pilots, died when a plane crashed at an airstrip in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, the region’s governor and the airline said. The airline said all aboard the commercial plane died late afternoon Tuesday when it took off from the airstrip at Pieri...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The federal government has given approval to mobile network operators (MNOs) for the establishment of dedicated SIM Swap Centres across the Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nigeria. This was one of the resolutions taken at the 4th Review Meeting of the Ministerial Task Force...
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger has called for the immortalisation of the late Emir of Kagara, Alhaji Salihu Tanko. The Governor, who spoke to newsmen shortly after the burial of the late emir in Kagara, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger, said he deserved to be immortalised because...
The Federal Government says, a total of 398 Estate Surveyors and Valuers have Requested For Proposal, RFP, to bid for forfeited assets. The Permanent Secretary and Solicitor General of the Federation, Mr Dayo Apata stated this at the official Opening Bid on the forfeited Assets to the government, in...
The discovery of a large group of people whose bodies naturally control HIV without taking medication is leading to hopes of an eventual cure, scientists say. The study found as many as 4% of HIV carriers in the Democratic Republic of Congo were able to suppress the virus. Typically...
Gunmen have kidnapped another foreigner along Igbemo Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Sunday Abutu, confirmed the kidnap to newsmen, noted that the incident took place on Tuesday. The police spokesman asked residents not to get tensed as...
Less than three weeks after 40 NSTA passengers were kidnapped, gunmen have again abducted over 50 passengers along the Tegina-Minna road in the Rafi Local Government of Niger State. Speaking on Tuesday in Minna, a source told journalists that the gunmen blocked the road at Kundu town, a few...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 479 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 156496. As at Tuesday (2nd, March 2021), the public health agency also recorded eight (8) new COVID-19-related deaths, raising the...
US President Joe Biden says the country expects to take delivery of enough coronavirus vaccine for all adults by the end of May. If the president’s target, which was announced on Tuesday, comes true, then it would have been reached two months earlier than anticipated. Addressing reporters in Washington,...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, brokered a truce between the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom and Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed in Port Harcourt. The conflict was resolved following the intervention of Governor Wike and his Adamawa State counterpart, Governor Ahmed Fintiri. Briefing journalists...
As a response to a recent intervention entitled’ Historical Perspectives on Nigeria’s Tertiary Education which among other things chronicled how Nigeria’s tertiary education originally got into trouble and with solutions on ways out of the debacle, I got several reactions/emails from esteemed readers. Indeed, all contributions were well appreciated,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared Zamfara a ‘no-fly zone’ and banned all mining activities in the state. The National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), who announced this on Tuesday in Abuja, explained that it was part of measures to tackle the security challenges witnessed in the north-western...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- Governor Zulum disclosed this while inaugurating the State’s Rural Electrification Board (REB) and Guidance and Counselling Commission at the Government House Council Chamber, in Maiduguiri. The Borno State Government on Tuesday, said it would electrify all the 27 Local Government Areas of the State to...
-Swears in new Special Adviser, Permanent Secretary- By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- Borno state Governor, Babagana Zulum has inaugurated chairperson and members of the newly established Career Guidance and Counselling Board and that of Rural Electrification Board (REB). While inauguratimg the board members at the Government House, Maiduguri, Governor Zulum...