Former speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has said that with unity, Nigeria will surmount all challenges and achieve its target of being a great nation. Dogara stated on Saturday in Langtang, Langtang North Local Government of Plateau, at the celebration of the Tarok Cultural Annual Festival,...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has inaugurated the 2024 Amirul Hajj Committee that would ensure a hitch free, orderly, organized and proper welfare of the pilgrims from Borno State during the forthcoming 2024 Hajj exercise. Inaugurating the committee on Saturday at the Council...
A Chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has advised President Bola Tinubu to monitor the disbursement of the N200 billion Presidential Intervention Fund for Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises and manufacturers. Oyintiloye, while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, urged the president to...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN – A total of 1,486 trainees comprising 1,240 male and 246 females, have successfully passed out of the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School Batch35 after six months of rigorous naval training which included seamanship, boat handling, small arms, rifle drills, endurance training and unarmed combat. ...
By SAMUEL MEYERSON – A four-year outbreak of violent raids for livestock in the Karamoja region of north-eastern Uganda, is finally subsiding – the result of a ruthless, informer-driven disarmament campaign by the army. Still, despite the return of stability , divisions arising from class tensions, intergenerational friction, and...
Onyeka Nwelue dives into the Johannesburg underworld with his latest release, The Nigerian Mafia Johannesburg. The gripping crime novel promises a tale of survival, betrayal and redemption set against the backdrop of South Africa’s bustling metropolis. The story centres around Uche Mbadiegwu, a Nollywood actor who finds himself embroiled in a...
On many fronts, America is showcasing the many burdens and benefits of democracy. Most Washington politicians are united in their support for Israel. But out on the streets, many Americans are opposed to Israel’s raging genocidal onslaught on Gaza and other Palestinian enclaves. While Congress had little trouble...
The Federal Government, on Saturday in Lagos, flagged off the demolition of a section of the Landmark Beach, the Mami Chula Beach Lifestyle, to give way to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, began the demolition after he inspected kilometre 13, 16 and 20 to...
Ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) won all the 11 local government chairmanship and 114 councillorship elections held in Gombe State on Saturday. Chairman of Gombe State Independent Electoral Commission, Malam Saidu Awak who announced the results in Gombe, said out of 19 registered political parties in the state,...
One person has been confirmed dead, while two others sustained injuries on Saturday in a gas tanker explosion at Ita -Oshin, Abeokuta on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. Mrs Florence Okpe, Spokesperson, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ogun Sector Command, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta. Okpe said the...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has commended contractors handling different projects in Abuja for keeping to their promises to deliver the projects before May 29. Wike gave the commendation after inspecting some of the ongoing projects across the capital territory on Saturday....
Residents of Sokoto and environs are facing difficulties with intense scarcity of fuel and potable water amidst high temperature of over 42 degree Celsius. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the situation has subjected people to harsh and miserable conditions in the state. NAN reports that...
The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Y. D. Ahmed, has tasked corps members to take seriously, the security tips and lectures given to them at the camp. “Taking the security tips seriously will enhance your safety,” Ahmed said on Saturday while addressing corps...
Dr Segun Oyebolu, has won the Social Democratic Party (SDP) ticket for the Nov. 16 Ondo State governorship election. Mr Joseph Achille Abu, the Chairman of the party’s governorship primary election committee, stated this at the end of the primary election in Ondo on Saturday. Achille said that...
Mr John Akinmurele, has emerged as the candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) for the Ondo State Nov. 16 governorship election. Akinmurele was elected unopposed by 89 out of 90 delegates at the indirect primaries on Saturday in Akure. Earlier, Mr Williams Moses, the Chairman of the...
Partial electricity supply has been restored to Gombe after the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) affected some repairs on its four transmission towers vandalised on Monday. Spokesman of the Jos Electricity Distribution Plc., Dr Adakole Elijah stated on Saturday that it had started to receive supply from Bauchi...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – Plateau State Government, in collaboration with the Environmental Protection and Sanitation Agency (PEPSA), have begun the enforcement of Executive Order 003 to enhance sanitation and decongest the cities of Jos and Bukuru. The order, issued by the state government in February 2024, aims...
The Commissioner for Information in Ekiti, Mr Taiwo Olatunbosun, has said no fewer than 203 public schools in the state benefit from the 25 million dollars School Improvement Grant (SIG) released by the World Bank to uplift the standard of education in the state. The commissioner said in...
Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle has said the Nigeria Navy recruited 1,486 personnel to boost the manpower needed for effective internal security operations in the Niger Delta. Matawalle said this during the Passing Out Parade (POP) of Nigerian Navy’s Batch 35 Trainees at the Nigeria...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Aishatu Kaoje has said no fewer than 11 perpetrators of various degrees of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the state have been sentenced and convicted in 2024. Kaoje stated this on Saturday in Sokoto during a...