The Minister of Industry, Trade and investment, Chief Adeniyi Adebayo has congratulated Ekiti State’s Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi on his 56th birthday anniversary. In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Ifedayo Sayo, on Tuesday in Abuja, the minister also lauded Fayemi’s giant strides in Ekiti State....
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An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama , Jos, on Tuesday sentenced two traders to four years imprisonment each for attacking a man in a public toilet and stealing N20,000 from his wallet. The police charged Abdullahi Zakari, 20, and Adamu Mohammed, 20, with theft, criminal force and...
The Founder of Making of Champions (MoCs) Athletic Club, Mr Bambi Akani, says with serious preparation for six months, Nigeria can win, at least, five medals in the Tokyo Olympics. Akani made the prediction in the third MoC’s athletes weekly bulletin (a platform where the activities of Nigerian athletes...
Rescue workers were searching for as many as 167 missing people in northern India after a chunk of a glacier fell into a river. The incidence triggered a massive flood that killed at least 31 people. The floodwaters washed away parts of two hydropower plants, roads and bridges on...
The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN has given a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to fully implement the financial autonomy for all State Houses of Assembly or face a total shutdown. According to a strike notice addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, dated January 27th, 2021, the association...
Recent United Nations (UN) reports says North Korea has maintained and developed its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes throughout 2020 in violation of international sanctions. The confidential document, reportedly seen and cited by Reuters on Monday, revealed that North Korea used some 300 million Dollars it got from stolen...
The 20th edition of the National Sports Festival has again been postponed to April 2021. The festival was scheduled to hold from February 14 to 28 in Benin City, the Edo State capital, before it suffered its latest postponement. This decision was reached on Monday after the emergency meeting...
The Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has called on Nigerians to shun politics of bitterness irrespective of political, religious and ethnicity to enhance good governance in the country. Governor Bello made this assertion when he received the Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani Kayode (FFK) at...
Heavy rains have flooded an underground clandestine textile factory in the Northern Moroccan city of Tangier, killing at least twenty-eight people. The deceased were submerged during torrential rainfall on Monday as flood waters reached 3 metres deep, Morocco’s State News Agency, MAP, reported. Firefighters have so far rescued eighteen...
I am not necessarily a fan of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), but sometimes, the man can talk sense, he can be truthful, we can make out something meaningful in his utterances. Recently, Nnamdi Kanu released a list of 62 prominent Nigerians, who...
The Independent Investigative Panel on alleged human rights violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other Units of the Nigerian Police has summoned the Chief Consultant of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Dr A. Abimiku to appear before it, to explain the cause of death...
Nigeria on Monday recorded six more deaths with 643 new cases of COVID-19. According to the Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC Twitter handles, the cases were recorded in 19 states of the federation including the FCT. Oyo state this time around takes the lead with 88 new cases,...
A 61-year-old woman , Mrs. Stella Omoigui, has demanded N50million compensation for her 11year- old-son, Master Osasu Omoigui, who was allegedly hit by a stray bullet on his genital during #EndSARS protest. Mrs. Omoigui, who is a petty trader in Benin, told the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry...
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has said the Federal Government plans to replace Bank Verification Numbers with the National Identity Numbers. Dr Pantami said this while briefing newsmen after a facility tour and inspection of the ongoing NIN enrolment exercise at NIMC and other...
The immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has attributed his appointment to his father’s love for the President, Muhammadu Buhari (retd). According to him, his appointment in July 2015 was a prize for the loyalty of his father, Yusuf Buratai to Buhari. Buratai’s father was...
The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) in Kaduna have said that Zeenat El-Zakzaky, wife of leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, never contracted COVID-19 in its prison facilities. The prison authority noted that a Covid-19 test on Zeenat, who has been in detention alongside her husband in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has inaugurated a 17-man committee to review its operational plan for the next five years. The committee, headed by INEC National commissioner and Chairman, Planning, Monitoring and Strategy Committee, Ahmed Muazu, has 40 days to submit its report. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu,...
The Federal Government has said that the ccountry would soon receive over 42 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines that would cover an estimated 45 per cent of the country’s population. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who disclosed this in Abuja during the weekly press briefing of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR- The new Chief Army Staff, COAS, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, on Monday said that the Nigeria Army would team up with troops of neighbouring countries from Cameroon, Niger and Chad republic in order to finally annihilate insurgency in the country. Major General Attahiru stated this on...