After being kidnapped for some weeks, eight women and four infants from Bungudu Local Government area of Zamfara state have regained their freedom. In an interview with newsmen at government house Gusau, the kidnapped victims said they sleep in open space and were given only soya beans cake as...
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday staged a protest at the Corporate Affairs Commission’s (CAC) Headquarters in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory. According to the union, the picketing was held over alleged anti-labour matters. The NLC is accusing the CAC management of clamping down on union members who challenged...
–Optimistic Insurgents won’t retake Marte again– By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- The Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum was at two hospitals on Wednesday, after Boko Haram fighters fired shots from Rocket Propelled Grenades (RGPs), resulting to the death of 10 residents and 47 others injured in Maiduguri. It was...
Ghana has become the first recipient of Covid-19 vaccine doses distributed by the global vaccine sharing initiative, Covax. The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine doses are produced by the Serum Institute of India. A plane carrying 600,000 doses of the of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine landed in the capital, Accra, on Wednesday, the...
Ten persons have been killed while 47 persons are said to have sustained injuries from the explosions that rocked Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Tuesday evening. Hospital officials where the affected persons were rushed to, confirmed the figures to Governor Babagana Zulum who was there to assess the...
As far as Nigeria is concerned, we explain resource control to be a system where a group of people will use their comparative advantage to force the government to funnel the nation’s common wealth to their side. It started after the “One Million Man March” organized by Daniel Kanu...
US golfer Tiger Woods was hospitalised Tuesday after a car crash in which his vehicle sustained “major damage,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department said. Woods, the sole occupant, was removed from the wreckage by firefighters and paramedics and taken to a local hospital for treatment, a statement said....
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Deputy Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Danlami Kawule, has faulted Governor Samuel Ortom over his statement that Governor Bala Mohammed is a terrorist. He called on him (Ortom) to apologize to the people of Bauchi State for making such derrogatory statement...
Rwandan Hutu rebels has denied accusations they were behind the killing of the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and instead blamed the armies of the DRC and Rwanda, as further details emerged about the attack. Luca Attanasio, 43, died on Monday after a World Food...
Riots at three jails in Ecuador left at least 62 inmates dead and several injured on Tuesday, authorities reported as the nation battles severe prison overcrowding and frequent violence between rival gangs.Advertising The national police said on Twitter the death toll stood at “more than 50” prisoners after unrest...
President Muhammadu Buhari says the administration’s ambitious policy of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty did not come by accident but was deliberate and will be pursued. Speaking on Tuesday at a meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), which was also attended by Vice President Prof....
President Joe Biden’s nominee for the number-2 position at the US Treasury has said it is critical to end the COVID-19 pandemic everywhere around the world. Wally Adeyemo told a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday that doing so would require providing resources to some of the globe’s poorest...
US President, Joe Biden plans to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Wednesday ahead of the public release of an intelligence report about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Axios has reported. The call, if it happens as scheduled, will be Mr. Biden’s first conversation as president with the...
Lagos State Taskforce on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods has shut 16 illegal, substandard and unregistered pharmacies, patent medicine stores and premises at Ajegunle and Alaba Suru axis of Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government area of the state. The Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi who made this...
Nigeria has been ranked the best in the world in her National response to HIV and AIDS. This is according to a report from the United States of America which reveals that among the countries getting the support of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief, (PEPFAR) across the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja-FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has warned that the Federal Capital Territory Administration would not spare any traditional ruler aiding and abetting criminality in his domain. The minister who handed down this warning during an emergency meeting of all the graded chiefs in...
Nigerian Troops have successfully charged through Marte, killing scores of ISWAP/ Boko Haram Terrorists who laid siege in that area for some days. Abuja-based news medium, PRNigeria, reported this Tuesday evening, quoted military sources. It also quoted a Military Officer as saying that the troops successfully and safely detonated...
Zenith Bank Plc, led by Jim Ovia, saw a 34 per cent surge in its asset base in 2020, lifting the bank’s value from N6.347 trillion to N8.481 trillion in one year and making it Nigeria’s biggest bank by asset, its audited financial statements showed on Tuesday. The lender...
By GIDEON EGBAH, Benin- A Civil Society Organisation in Edo State, Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), has cautioned Governor Godwin Obaseki against making utterances that are capable of causing division in Edo polity. The group advised that instead of dissipating energy on ploys to further division in the...