Excited fans on Monday swarmed around Kano Pillars’ captain, Rabiu Ali, after his team’s Match Day 7 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) match against Sporting Lagos FC on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2023/2024 Match Day 7 played at Mobolaji Johnson Arena,...
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The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, says he is still committed to building a new Nigeria in spite of the Supreme Court ruling on the 2023 Presidential Election, which is not in his favour. Obi said this when he addressed a news...
Information and National Orientation Minister, Mohammed Idris has said the eight priority objectives of the President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda will help build a just and equitable Nigeria for all.id Idris stated this at an interactive session with senior media editors and executives on Monday in Abuja....
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Monday joined the UN family in mourning 89 staff from its agency that assisted Palestine refugees (UNRWA), who were killed in Gaza. Guterres told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York that the Gaza crisis was more than humanitarian crisis: “The nightmare in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Managing Director/CEO, North East Development Commission, (NEDC), Ambassador Mohammed Goni Alkali has said that the commission is embarking on reconstruction of the famous Eye and Dental Hospital Maiduguri to expand on facilities and equipments of the hospital in order accommodate more...
A group, Peace and Good Governance Advocates (PEGGA), has called on politicians to leave the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, out of the conflicting court judgments on election petitions in Plateau. The group’s National Coordinator, Mani Imman, who made the call in a statement...
An Assistant Secretary for U.S. Economic and Business Affairs, Ramnin Toloui, has forecast a 100 billion dollar revenue from Nigeria’s creative industries by 2030. Toloui, who spoke during the Africa Creative Market Conference in Lagos on Monday, also said if the potential of the industry was well harnessed,...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, made an order of perpetual injunction restraining the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from further disclaiming the certificate of national service number: A808297 issued to Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, also awarded N5 million...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Referees’ Development Committee/Unit have placed 14 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) referees on preliminary suspension over poor officiating. This is contained in a letter by Faith Irabor, Head of NFF’s Referees’ Development Committee/Unit and addressed to Davidson Owumi,...
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Kayode Egbetokun, has warned that the police will not tolerate electoral violence in Bayelsa as off-cycle governorship election holds in the state on Saturday, IGP Egbetokun stated this during a courtesy visit to Gov. Douye Diri on Monday in Yenagoa. He stressed that...
The Senate has said it will facilitate the inclusion of dredging of the River Benue in the 2024 appropriation bill, to address the perennial flooding and its multi-dimensional consequences. This followed the adoption of a motion at plenary on Monday on “Need to prevent loss of lives caused...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. George Akume, says the Federal Government is committed to fair, transparent and accountable electoral system as foundation of democracy in the country. Akume stated this while inaugurating the stakeholders’ Roundtable on Policy Oversight for Electoral Integrity in Nigeria,...
A former Kano Pillars player and highest goal scorer, Junior Lokosa, now playing for Sporting Lagos FC on Monday described his brace against his former club as an emotional moment. Lokosa said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) after the 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier...
HARUNA AHMED, Katsina – At least nine persons have been killed by suspected bandits at Rugar Kusa village in Musawa Local Government Area of Katsina State. 16 other persons sustained varying degree of injuries when the assailants attacked Muslim faithful celebrating the Maulud in the community on...
President Bola Tinubu has expressed grief over the death of foremost Islamic scholar, Sheikh Yusuf Ali, who died in the early hours of Monday, at the age of 73. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sheikh Ali, was a Kano based scholar who held the position of...
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has called on army Commanders and troops not to let Nigeria down in the on-going efforts to tackle security challenges. Musa made the call on Monday in Abuja at the Army Headquarters Operations Centre after receiving briefs on engagements of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – At least 2 persons have been killed and others injured following a diesel tank explosion which gutted a section of the Canadian High Commission in Abuja on Monday. Head of Public Affairs of The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),...
The police command in Kogi on Monday said it plans to deploy over 40,000 policemen across the state to ensure peaceful conduct of the Nov. 11 governorship election. The state Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr Bethrand Onuoha, stated in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...
The ongoing construction of the $5bn Train-7 project being undertaken by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) at Finima, Bonny Island, Rivers State has reached 52 percent and currently engages 8,300 Nigerians of diverse skill sets. These facts emerged on Friday as the Management of the Nigeria LNG Limited...