The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has promised to provide the needed logistics and equipment to security agencies to flush out criminals terrorising in the territory. Wike stated this during a security town hall with traditional and community leaders, in Bwari Area Council...
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Stalwart of the All Progress Congress (APC), Alhaji Yunusa Muhammed Raji, who is popularly known as King Raji, has congratulated the newly appointed Caretaker Chairman of Dekina local government in Kogi state, John Urah. The APC stalwart expressed optimism that the emergence of Urah would breed new life...
President Bola Tinubu is presiding over the first meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) after the Christmas and New Year holidays. The meeting taking place at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa has in attendance, ministers, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief of Staff...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Fire has gutted the academic complex of SteadyFlow College Of Education Akparabong Community, Ikom LGA of Cross River State, destroying academic facilities worth millions of naira. No one knows the cause of the fire, but speculations among the community residents is that the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it is optimistic of capturing Bauchi State in the 2027 general election, in spite of its failure to get a favourable ruling at the Supreme Court. The state APC Chairman, Alhaji Hassan Tilde, said this when he spoke with the News...
The Federal Government has pledged to fulfill its agreements with organised labour. Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mrs Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, made this known during a courtesy visit to the office of the Trade Union Congress(TUC), on Wednesday in Abuja. Onyejeocha said the visit to some of...
Super Eagles’ coach, Jose Peseiro, has confirmed that Alhassan Yusuf is out of the match against host, Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire, on Thursday at the Stade Olympique Alassan Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan. Peseiro confirmed this on Wednesday at the team’s news conference ahead of Nigeria’s second match at...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has interrogated the Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, and also invited more members of staff of Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs over alleged N585.2m fraud in the ministry. An EFCC source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Madein and...
Management of Redeemer’s Health Centre, Ibadan, says it has so far received 12 victims of Tuesday’s Bodija explosion. The centre’s Clinical Director, Dr Bello Zion, made the disclosure while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday. NAN reports that an explosion had occurred on Tuesday...
There was a mild drama on Wednesday in a Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court in Abuja when a housewife, Sa’adatu Ayuba, prayed the court to disregard her earlier plea for divorce. The petitioner, who sought for divorce on grounds of impotence, said she married her husband Jalija 27...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto/Zamfara States Customs Area Comptroller, Musa Omale, on Wednesday handed over 1,198 cartons of pharmaceutical products containing 3027 unregistered drugs of various categories to the National Agency for Food and Drug Control (NAFDAC). Addressing newsmen before presenting the consignments to...
No fewer than two members of Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) in Mafa LGA of Borno State have been killed while eight others sustained various degree of injuries following an explosion from Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The incident occured on Tuesday while they were on their routine operations...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In a quest at boosting Research and Development for economic and technological development in Nigeria, the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Administration has approved the sum of N5,128,180,623.63 for the funding of 185 successful research proposals under the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) National...
The Kaduna State Fire Service on Wednesday confirmed a fire incident at the popular Panteka market in Kaduna. Mr Paul Aboi, Director, Kaduna State Fire Service, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the fire incident affected the timber section of the market. Aboi said that the...
Sen. Sharafadeen Alli (APC-Oyo South) and a former Senate Leader, Sen. Teslim Folarin, have described the explosion that rocked some parts of Ibadan on Tuesday night as devastating and unfortunate. The duo, in their separate reactions on Wednesday in Ibadan, called for indepth investigations into the incident. The News...
Oyo Government says two persons lost their lives while a total 77 others suffered varying degrees of injuries in the explosion that rocked Bodija area of Ibadan and its environs yesterday night. Gov. Seyi Makinde made the disclosure in Ibadan on Tuesday when he paid a visit to...
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has expressed his unwavering determination to collaborate closely with the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations in crafting communication strategies that will drive the transformative vision encapsulated in the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu. Idris made the remarks in Abuja on...
By MBAFAN ADE – The African Energy Chamber (AEC), as the voice of the African energy sector, has strongly urged the Nigerian government to take a fast-tracked approach to approving the decision by British multinational oil and gas company, Shell, to sell its Nigerian onshore assets to...