By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- Saddened by the slow pace of the reconstruction of the Palace of the District Head of Katagum, Usman Mahmood, Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has revoked the contract. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the contract awarded at the cost of N75 million was supposed to have...
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ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, has stated that he is repositioning the Nigerian Army to enable it defeat all adversaries confronting the country. He stated this in his speech while commissioning three blocks of classrooms built by the Nigerian Army Civil Military...
Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan appears now to be in a very big dilemma. The dilemma is whether he should go for the Presidency of Nigeria in 2023, or not. If he is to go, on which political party platform will he contest? Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has suddenly become...
Thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets across Algeria on Friday, as the “Hirak” pro-democracy movement gathers renewed momentum after a year-long hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite a ban on gatherings over Covid-19, crowds rallied in several neighbourhoods of the capital Algiers in the early afternoon...
The United States on Friday slapped a visa ban on 76 Saudi individuals in what it calls the “Khashoggi Ban”. This followed a U.S. intelligence report accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of approving the 2018 gruesome murder of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Secretary of State Antony Blinken,...
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr Godwin Emefiele, has urged Bank CEOs and other stakeholders to work together to reset the Nigerian economy to achieve massive growth. Emefiele gave the advice at a one-day Special Summit on the Economy, organised by the Vanguard Newspaper in...
.. announces constitution of teachers, LGA staffs verification complain desk By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri-Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has offered scholarship to health workers and teachers in Dikwa LGA to study courses in medicine, sciences and technology in various tertiary institutions within and outside Nigeria. NATIONAL ACCORD gathered that...
There was a general rise in food prices in January, the National Bureau of Statistics has said. The NBS said this in its report titled ‘Selected food prices watch for January 2021’, which was released on Friday. It said, “Selected food price watch data for January 2021 reflected that...
A container load of tramadol has been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Apapa seaport. Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi in a statement released on Wednesday February 24, said about two million capsules of Tramadol (precisely 1,994,400 capsules)...
The former Governor of Borno State and a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Ali Modu Sheriff, has begun meetings with state governors over his National chairmanship ambition. Speaking to reporters shortly after meeting with the Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, Sheriff said he cannot fully kick off...
Pan-Arewa socio-political organisation, the North East Elders for Peace and Development (NEEPD), has dissociated itself from Ahmad Gumi, Islamic cleric, over his alleged religious profiling of military operatives. Gumi was quoted to have said non-Muslim soldiers carried out orchestrated killings of bandits and consequently precipitating their anger. “What I...
Social media has become one of the mediums where people find love and a number of people have taken advantage to express their admiration at people they like. Recently, a young man simply identified as Hony decided to shoot his shot at actress Kate Henshaw and he got a response from...
The Federal Government says it would soon begin the trial of 5,000 suspected Boko Haram members who are in various detention facilities across the country. The Director General of Legal Aid Council, Aliyu Abubakar, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to Borno Governor Babagana Zulum at the Government House,...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has announced that 655 new cases if coronavirus COVID-19) infections were recorded across the country on Wednesday. This brings to 153,842 the total number of confirmed infections since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country in...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said Nigerians were disappointed with the National Assembly for confirming former service chiefs as ambassadors. Governor Wike, who spoke when members of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta visited him at Government House, Port Harcourt, yesterday, wondered why senators who agreed with Nigerians when...
Aisha Yesufu, popular activist, has accused State Governors and Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed of speaking for terrorists. Yesufu, a co-convener of BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, advocacy group, also accused religious rulers of speaking for terrorists. She stated this while speaking at the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, annual...
Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire have agreed to form a joint committee to find a lasting solution to security challenges faced by cocoa farmers along with the southern parts of the shared border of the two countries. Ghanaian cocoa farmers who farm across the Tano river are often accosted by...
The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed the killing of Mr Samuel Ani, a Community leader in the crisis ridden Oruku area of Nkanu LGA of the State, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen. The Police Command in the state confirmed the incident in a statement signed by...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, has approved the release of the sum of N32 million for the vaccination of over 800,000 herds of cattle in the state. He disclosed this at the launching of 2020/2021 annual livestock vaccination campaign held at the Galambi...
The Portuguese Government has officially nominated UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as a candidate for a second term in office. UN spokesman, Mr Stephane Dujarric, disclosed this at his daily news briefing in New York on Wednesday. He said the nomination came in a letter addressed to the Presidents of...