The Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara has rejected the purported replacement of Bashir Bolarinwa with his deputy, Abdullahi Samari, as chairman by the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). The caretaker committee made this known in Ilorin while addressing newsmen. The Vice Chairman of the...
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…Says JAMB under Oloyede has been about innovations The desire to make the Federal University, Wukari, an institution of global reckoning might not be a wishful thinking after all. This is owing to the fact that an erudite scholar and thoroughbred academic in the person of Abubakar Kundiri, a...
By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – For Ukertor Gabriel Moti, notable Nigerian Professor of Public Administration specialising in Public Sector Management and Governance, this is indeed a season for national and international recognitions. Barely two weeks after his appointment as Director of the Centre for Corruption Studies of the University...
Kenya’s economy is forecast to grow by 6.4 percent in 2021 from an estimated 0.6 percent in 2020, the National Treasury said on Monday. Ukur Yatani, cabinet secretary of the National Treasury and Planning, said there had been an improvement in economic activity in the third and fourth quarters...
Justice Haleema Salman, the trial Judge in the April 5, 2018 Offa bank robbery case, in Kwara, has blamed prosecution for the seeming delay in the dispensation of the case. At the resumed hearing of the case on Monday in Ilorin after a prolonged adjournment, Justice Salman expressed displeasure of...
The Katsina State Police Command says it has arrested an alleged supplier of arms and ammunition to bandits in the state. The police alleged that one Haruna Yusuf, 47, and other suspects found with two machine guns and 179 anti-aircraft ammunition, were arrested.The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Sanusi...
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has vowed to arrest and prosecute culprits linked to the communal crisis involving Effium, Ezza Effium indigenes of Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the police have so far confirmed eight deaths, over 60 persons...
The University of Jos Africa Centre of Excellence in Phytomedicine Research and Development (ACEPRD) has trained 329 postgraduate students from 2015 to 2019. Prof. Sabastian Maimako, the Vice-Chancellor of the university disclosed this in a press briefing on Monday in Jos.According to Maimako, the students were drawn from within...
Hotel Rwanda ‘hero’ Paul Rusesabagina will on Tuesday appear in court to answer to several charges related to terrorism, in a trial that is expected to draw international attention due to his global celebrity status. Mr Rusesabagina is expected to appear alongside 18 other suspects accused of terrorism, arson...
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Nanono, says the Federal Government through the Bank of Agriculture (BOA) has empowered 20 young Nigerian Farmers with an initial take-off grant of N30 million.Nanono said that the grant would ensure ease of business as they (young farmers) invest in...
Activities on the nation’s bourse resumed the week on Monday on a positive note following investors’ interests in Dangote Cement and Airtel Africa. Specifically, the All-Share Index inched higher by 86.97 points or 0.21 per cent to close at 41,088.96 from 41,001.99 on Friday. Consequently, month-to-date and year-to-date returns...
The Ekiti government, on Monday, inaugurated the board of the state Law Reform Commission.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the inauguration was performed by the Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Mr Olawale Fapounda in Ado-Ekiti.A statement made available to NAN by the commissioner indicated that the exercise...
A Dutse Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, ordered the remand of a 55-year-old man, Ibrahim Jallo, in a correctional centre for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl and preventing her baby from being born alive.The defendant, a resident of Buma Ruwa village in Gwiwa Local Government area, is facing a...
The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) says its officers have arrested five members of a proscribed religious movement for a protest in Abuja. The Police Public Relations Officer in FCT, ASP Mariam Yusuf, announced this in a statement in Abuja. She said that the command had restored...
The Federal Government says no fewer than 158 armed bandits, terrorists and criminal elements have been neutralised by the Armed Forces across the country since the beginning of the year.The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this at a media briefing on Monday in Abuja...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged donor countries and banks to significantly increase the volume and predictability of their finance for climate change adaptation and resilience. “Donor countries and multilateral, regional and national development banks need to significantly increase the volume and predictability of their finance for adaptation...
The Kwara government, on Monday, began a week-long medical screening exercise for 4,500 food vendors, ahead of the official take-off of its Home-Grown School Feeding Programme.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the screening was being overseen by the Focal Person for the National Social Investment Programme in...
Princess Peace Nnaji, the Enugu State Commissioner for Gender Affairs and Social Development, has reiterated the state government’s commitment to the fight against child abuse in the state. Nnaji gave the assurance in Enugu on Monday when she visited 10-year-old Lawrence Okoronwe, who was allegedly battered with a hot...
The Controller-General, Federal Fire Service (FFS), Mr Ibrahim Liman, on Monday, visited the Shehu Shagari Modern Market in Sokoto State to commiserate with traders over the recent fire incident in the market. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that part of the market, popularly called New Market, was...
Mr Onyekachi Nwebonyi, on Monday, urged the Federal High Court, Abuja, to vacate the order, restraining him from parading himself as the chairman of the Ebonyi Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Nwebonyi, who was accompanied by his lawyer, Roy Umahi, told newsmen shortly after filing court processes in...