The Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Salihi-Magashi, has given an assurance that the abducted students of the Government Science Secondary School,Kankara, Katsina State, will be rescued soon. Salihi-Magashi gave the assurance on Sunday in Katsina when he led a Federal Government delegation to Gov. Aminu Masari on a...
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Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has expressed sadness over the death of the Chairman and Founder of LEADERSHIP Newspapers, Mr Sam Nda-Isaiah.In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Anthony Ogunleye on Sunday, the Minister described the late publisher and politician as...
Wife of Oyo State Deputy Governor, Prof. Amdalat Olaniyan, has advised Muslim parents to ensure that their children acquire Islamic education in order to tackle corruption and other social vices in the country.Olaniyan gave the advice on Sunday in Ibadan during the second Quran Memorisation Graduation Ceremony of Ali...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, to use their leadership positions “to urgently probe how N116 million was spent by your Ministry to buy biros, letterhead and toners in 2015, and to disclose the amount spent...
The Kwara Government says 23 more people have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 1,226. The spokesman of the Technical Committee on COVID-19 in the state, Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, made this known in a statement issued in Ilorin. He added that...
Mr Olayemi Daniyan, the Vice Chairman of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ), has called for grants and palliatives for media houses. This, he said, would enable them to pay the salaries and allowances owed their workers. Daniyan made the call in...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are partnering to strengthen delivery of emergency medical and health services during humanitarian crises. WHO, in a statement on its website, said that its Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, and IFRC Secretary-General, Mr...
The Kwara Government has called for collaboration by stakeholders in tackling outbreak of animal diseases in the state. Alhaji Muritala Olarewaju, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, made the call on Saturday in Ilorin while declaring open a stakeholders sensitisation workshop on Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD) outbreak. The...
The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) says it will on Monday unveil the maiden edition of the Arahah Farmers’ Market to provide quality and affordable produce to Abuja residents. ACCI Media Officer Latifat Opoola in a statement on Sunday in Abuja said that the Market was where...
President Muhammadu Buhari says by retaining his IBF, WBA, and WBO titles, Anthony Joshua has given boxing lovers around the world, and particularly in Nigeria, something to cheer. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said Buhari made his feelings known while celebrating...
A Consultant Ocular Oncologist, Dr Abia Nzelu, has decried the growing incidences of cancer disease and the poor attention being given to it in Nigeria. Nzelu, also Executive Secretary, Mass Medical Mission (MMM) in charge of cancer care, made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Bauchi State government has stated that its plan to remodel and reconstruct the Goverment House in the state and the Governor’s Lodge in Abuja at the cost of N6.4 billion was not a misplacement of priority but a necessity. The goverment which said that the despite the reactions...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of an interim administrator to oversee the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) He is Mr Effiong Okon Akwa, the Ag. Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the Commission, who is to assume headship till completion of the forensic audit....
‘’I don’t believe I have done enough for Nollywood.’’ That was the crowned Sheikh of the industry, Zeb Ejiro in an interview sometime ago. Now, suffice it to say that his latest project ‘Sakobi Part 2’, is part of his vow to ‘do enough’ for the arena he has actually...
In 1978, the Public Relations professionals across the globe gathered in Mexico to among other aims chart a course, and stir the ship of public relations practice. The gathering proposed and adopted a highly influential definition of public relation which it tagged; The Mexican statement. It says; “Public relations practice...
Egypt has received its first shipment of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine, which was tested in the United Arab Emirates and is said to be 86% effective. The shipment from Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm landed at Cairo’s international airport from the UAE late on Thursday. Health Minister, Hala Zayed...
What did (the various territories that were later to be amalgamated into) Nigeria look like in 1894? How about a hundred years later in 1994? And what could Nigeria look like in the year 2094? History provides elaborate answers to the first two questions. Answers – accurate or near-accurate...
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Friday said she had enough evidence to open a full probe into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Nigeria. The announcement comes after almost a decade of preliminary investigations into the violence in northeastern Nigeria which has killed...
The Executive Secretary, Borno State Agency for the Coordination of Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Affairs (BSACSDHA), Alhaji Bunu Monguno has tasked Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) participants at the one-day Community Militias Report Launch and Panel Discussion to digest honestly and recommend frankly the best in the overall...
Chief James Onanefe Ibori has described the late Sam Nda-Isaiah, who died Friday night, as a man with strong convictions and who expressed them passionately.In a press statement signed by Ibori’s Media Assistant, Tony Eluemunor, Ibori said that Nigeria will remember Nda-Isaiah as a man of many parts. He...