President Bola Tinubu is to attend the Arab-African and Saudi-Africa summits holding this week in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this on Sunday while briefing State House Correspondents in Abuja. He said that the attendance...
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Business owners and residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja have decried the epileptic power supply being experienced in the territory. The residents said the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) was not leaving up to expectations and urged it to improve its services The electricity consumers, who...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 14.5 million pills of tramadol and bottles of codeine syrup worth more than N13 billion in street value in Lagos in three days. The hauls were made in three major busts of drug cartels operating at Amuwo Odofin; at...
By Jacob Kubeka (ABUJA) – The opposition Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], has been tasked to prove that Sir Etekamba Umoren is a card-carrying member of the All-Progressives Congress (APC). A leader of the APC in Eket Senatorial District of Akwa-Ibom State and spokesperson to the Senate President, Hon Eseme...
Lightning strike has killed three Senior Secondary School (SS3) students in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra on Saturday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered on Sunday. An eye witness told NAN that the lightning struck nine male students who were playing football with their peers...
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), has condemned the recent attack on the President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Joe Ajaero. The union’s reaction to the incident was contained in a statement signed by Mr Peters Adeyemi, its General Secretary, a copy of...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Nigeria Air Force (NAF) on Sunday said its Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai(OPHK) in the Northeast and Operation Hadarin Daji in Northwest have destroyed several terrorists enclaves in recent operations across the theatres. The Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF,...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reached a significant milestone as it celebrates its fifth anniversary. The Director General of NCDC, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, made this announcement during an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. NAN reports that in...
Senator Ned Nwoko, (PDP-Delta) has said nobody should be seen as above the law when dealing with issues of oil theft and spillage in the country. Nwoko, who is the Senate Vice Chairman on Environment, and member representing Delta North Senatorial District, said this on Sunday, in an...
Police in Cross River State on Sunday arrested a fleeing suspect in Saturday’s abduction of a former INEC employee. The suspect was hiding in the ceiling of his girlfriend’s house in Calabar when he was arrested.poli He has confessed that the victim’s tenant initiated the abduction. Police spokesperson,...
Many residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Sunday decried the continuous increase in the price of cooking gas. According to them, cooking gas has gone beyond the reach of the common man. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the latest Cooking Gas Price report...
The Adamawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency has said it is targeting 388,180 girls aged nine to 14 years for vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) to prevent them from cervical cancer. Dr Suleiman Bashir, the Executive Chairman of the agency, made this known in an interview...
The Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Ali Muhammad Ali, says the Lagos Blue Light Rail operations in Lagos State will boost productivity and reduce traffic congestion. Muhammad spoke after boarding the train to other stations of the train in Lagos on Sunday. The...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The police in Nasarawa State has detained an official of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) for allegedly chaining and locking up his son for twenty four hours without food nor water. Before his arrest, the FRSC official, identified as Mr Asoko...
Mr Dennis Idahosa (APC -Edo), says his Appeal Court victory has again affirmed that the people of Ovia Federal constituency would no longer allow anyone, under any guise, supersede over their affairs without their mandate. Idahosa said this in his reaction to Saturday’s Appeal court judgement that affirmed...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – No less than Fourteen Million, Four Hundred and Eighty One Thousand, Five Hundred and Nineteen (14, 481, 519) pills of Tramadol and bottles of codeine syrup worth over Thirteen Billion Naira (N13,000,000,000) in street value have been recovered by operatives of the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said its operatives have arrested three blind men operating an illicit drug ring between Lagos and Kano, while another blind member of the syndicate is still at large. A statement issued by the...
Israel pressed its war to crush Hamas on Sunday nearly a month after the worst attack in the country’s history, as the Palestinian group said strikes on a central Gaza refugee camp killed dozens. Fighting continues to rage in densely populated Gaza, despite calls for a...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu over “the failure to probe the grim allegations that over US$15 billion oil revenues, and N200 billion budgeted to repair the refineries in Nigeria are missing and unaccounted...
HPV vaccine: Stakeholders decry lack of awareness in Kogi, Niger, Nasarawa Stakeholders have decried the level of enlightenment on the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine to prevent across the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the vaccine is expected to be administered on girls between the...