The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), has confirmed the death of 200 persons from Lassa fever, representing 17.1 per cent in 28 States and 114 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 2023. The NCDC, via its official website on Sunday, said that aside from the fatality,...
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The embattled 27 Rivers lawmakers have said that their defection from PDP to APC was tied to President Bola Tinubu’s “Renewed Hope Agenda”. The factional Speaker, Martins Amaewhule, who led the mass defection, gave the reason at a “Thanksgiving and stakeholders’ meeting” of APC on Sunday in Port...
BY DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo – Taraba State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas has constituted an 18-man committee for the forthcoming 2023 Nwonyo fishing festival in Ibi Local Government Council of the state. Governor Kefas in a press statement released by his Chief Press Secretary and issued to NATIONAL...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting fresh election to fill the seats of the 26 Rivers House of Assembly members who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Donatus Okorowo, who gave...
The following are the results of Match Day 14 fixtures played on Sunday in the 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL): Heartland FC 1-0 Akwa United FC Plateau United 5-1 Bayelsa United FC Sunshine Stars FC 1-1 Gombe United FC Kano Pillars 2-1 FC Remo Stars FC Lobi...
The Director of Corporate Affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pius Ughakpoteni, was among those honoured by ThisDay Alumni Association at its First Annual Dinner in Abuja on Saturday.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Sunday explained why he refused to stop Pastor Afolabi Olaoye from contesting Soun of Ogbomoso’s stool. Adeboye, while speaking at the interdenominational thanksgiving services for the traditional ruler at Beulah Baptist Conference, Ogbomoso,...
A new breed of beggars known as “Corporate Beggars” is on the rise in Abuja. Findings by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) revealed that the corporate beggars take begging as a means of livelihood and even earn more than some workers. The beggars usually hangout around shopping...
Former House of Reps member, Alphonsus Komsol, has urged President Bola Tinubu to replace former Minister of Labour and Employment Simon Lalong with a new minister from the Plateau Central Senatorial Zone, for equity. The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, made the call in an open letter to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Labour Party (LP) on Sunday said it was being repositioned to clinch the governorship seat in the Edo 2024 election. National Publicity Secretary of LP, Mr Obiora Ifoh, made this known in a statement in Abuja. According to Ifoh, the party in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has debunked a notice of nationwide strike allegedly scheduled for Monday. It would be recalled that a statement purportedly signed by General Secretary of NLC and Secretary General of TUC, Emmanuel Ugboaja and Nuhu Toro respectively, indicated...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said its operatives have recovered 1.5 million pills of tramadol and Rohypnol bound for South Africa at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, on Thursday. The NDLEA also arrested two suspects, Bada Akorede, and...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – A multi-million-naira mansion located at K-5A/2 Road 14, Victoria Garden City (VGC) estate, Lekki area of Lagos used as clandestine laboratory for the production of methamphetamine by a convicted drug baron, Okenwa Chris Nzewi, has been forfeited to the Federal Government following...
Amidst the challenges of rising food prices across the country, Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani, a Muslim woman, has distributed Christmas trees, wrappers and cash gifts to Christian widows and Pastors in Kaduna as part of this year’s Christmas celebration. Tijjani ,who is an international interfaith specialist highlighted that during Ramadan,...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Enugu State Police Commissioner, Kanayo Uzuegbu, has said the ban on sale and unauthorised use of fireworks, commonly known as “knockout” or “banger,” is still in force in the state. CP Uzuegbu stated this in a statement issued by the command’s...
The Police Command in Kaduna State, says its operatives have arrested a suspected rustler and recovered 90 livestock on Saturday in Kaduna. The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Kaduna on Sunday. Hassan said, “On Dec....
Ambassador of Cote d’Ivoire to Nigeria, Mr Kalilou Traore, has said the official trade volume between his country and Nigeria has reached approximately 1.5 billion dollars. Traore made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday. This, according to him, is still open...
A frontline governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the governorship election holding in the state on September 21, 2024, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, at the weekend, said he was going to free traditional rulers from the excessive power of the state governor...
Beneficiary institutions in Nigerian higher education are to benefit from the 2023 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention of N198 billion, representing 62 per cent of the approved N320 billion by the government. The TETFund Acting Director of Public Affairs, Mr Abdulmumin Oniyangi, made this available to the...
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has identified illegal betting as number one factor fuelling corruption in sports. The UN drug agency also identified fraudulent manipulation of competitions, and the involvement of organised crime in the sporting work as other factors fuelling corruption in...