Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa, on Thursday, swore-in Justice Aisha Bashir-Aliyu as the first female Acting Chief Judge (CJ) of the state. Administering the oath of office and allegiance on the new acting CJ at Government House, Lafia, the governor said her appointment followed the retirement of the former...
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Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, Umar Sanda, on Thursday said that the government would buy 50 operational vehicles, worth N759.5 million, for all the security agencies in the state. Sanda, who made this known in Bauchi at a news conference, said that achieving effective security was one of the...
Some hairdressers and beauticians in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are currently ‘smiling to the banks’ as they enjoy high patronage due to the Yuletide. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who went round Bwari town on Thursday to speak with some...
Italian footballer of Ghanaian descent Mario Balotelli Barwuah in a live TV interview asked his biological parents to speak the Ghanaian language Twi. The 30-year-old was with his younger brother live on TV when he phoned his parents. The AC Monza forward born to Ghanaian parents before adopted by the vastly...
Ogugu community in Olamaboro local government area of Kogi State has recognized Engr. Yakubu Yahaya Nurudeen, a former aspirant for the state House of Assembly, as the ‘most friendly honorable’ of the year 2020. Engr. Yakubu received the award at the just concluded Miss Ogugu Beauty Pageant. This was...
Stanley Johnson, the father of pro-Brexit British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said he is going to apply for French citizenship in order to maintain close ties to the EU. Speaking to French radio station RTL, Stanley said his grandmother was French and his mother was born in France, so...
Tragedy struck in Asu village, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area, Ogun State, on Wednesday when an operational vehicle of the operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service crushed a motorcyclist, Juwon Mumuni, to death. It was gathered that the operatives of the Federal Operating Unit of NCS were involved in...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno state Deputy Governor, Umar Usman Kadafur has flagged off the distribution of grinding machines, sewing machines and cash to 600 women across Five local governments in southern Borno as empowerment programme donated by Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume . The women empowerment which took...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Police Command said it has arrested four armed suspected herdsmen for allegedly attacking and killing two irrigation farmers who were working on their farms. The incident was said to have happened at Tabak Village of Mainako Ward in Zaki LGA of Bauchi on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2021 budget into law. The signing was done at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday and was confirmed on the official Twitter handle of the presidency. The signing of the budget comes exactly 10 days after both chambers of the National Assembly, the Senate...
Ghana’s ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) said, on Thursday, that the decision by the opposition leader and former President John Mahama to challenge the presidential election results at the Supreme Court was appropriate and democratic. Yaw Asamoa, the Director of Communications for the party, who said this a statement...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Comr. Andyson Iji Egbodo on Wednesday emerged as the President of Igede Youth Council (IYC) in a peaceful conducted election at Oju Local Government Area of Benue state. In a statement signed by Signed Comr. Eka A’adu Dickson Chairman, Electoral Committee and made available to...
A member representing Ikeja Federal constituency in the National Assembly, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, has donated food items to All Progressives Congress (APC) members, supporters, religious leaders and traditional rulers across the 3 senatorial districts of Kogi state in the spirit of Christmas celebration. Cash gifts were also dole...
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 1,016 new infections of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country has so far tested 938,602 persons since the first confirmed...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, has signed a budget of N213,914,559,427.00 for the 2021 Fiscal Year into law. Recall that governor Mohammed presented the 2021 budget proposal of N213,914,559,427.00 tagged: “Budget of Consolidation” to the Bauchi State House of Assembly for consideration and subsequent passage....
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division, Nigerian Army ((NA), Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri Wednesday distributed Christmas gifts to displaced families in Gubio IDPs Camp in the Jere Local Government Area of Borno state. The I benefitting internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) include 6,664 IDP households...
By JOHN ONAH- The President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Dr.Felix Omobude, said Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, should not be used as the sacrificial lamb. Speaking to journalists in his church premises in Benin, Omobude backed Bishop Kukah for speaking the truth “at this critical...
President Muhammadu Buhari has had the most serious health challenge in his life, as he mentioned himself some time ago. Prayerfully and thankfully, after a series of medical trips abroad to London, where he consulted severally with his Doctors, and got treated for his ailment for a substantial part...
The joint United Nations-African Union mission in the Darfur region of Sudan (UNAMID) will officially end operations on Thursday, when the government of Sudan will take over responsibility for the protection of civilians in the area, the UN News has reported. In a statement released on Wednesday, UNAMID confirmed...