The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says no fewer than 26.5 million Nigerians in Borno, Sokoto and Zamfara States including the FCT may face food crisis between June and August, 2024. FAO country representative, Dominique Kouacou, disclosed this at the presentation of October to November round of the...
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Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has threatened to invoke the necessary sections of the constitution to enable the state government halt the ongoing rehabilitation of the 32-km Audu/Azara road over poor work. The House said the rehabilitation job, estimated to cost N3.1 billion, is being poorly executed, warning...
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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said the brutality meted to Mr Joe Ajaero, the National President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Imo state on Wednesday was abuse of his fundamental rights. The Executive Secretary, NHRC, Mr Anthony Ojukwu, condemned the alleged brutality against Ajaero...
A Nollywood movie, ‘Dangerous Mission,’ has emerged overall best film and received the Golden Jury Award at the grand finale of the 20th edition of the Abuja International Film Festival (AIFF). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the movie won three awards in Abuja on Thursday...
A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday, ordered one Matthew Bem to be remanded in a correction centre, Makurdi, for allegedly killing his wife, Mrs Mngusonum Bem. The 42-year old farmer, who lives at Korinya Settlement in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue, was charged with culpable homicide....
U.S. and U.K. Theatrical Release Dates Announced for New Music Documentary: YOSHIKI: Under The Sky Directed by International Rock Star and Composer YOSHIKI and featuring Sarah Brightman, The Chainsmokers, Nicole Scherzinger, St. Vincent, and More YOSHIKI: UNDER THE SKY, Film assets (for media use): HERE. Directed by YOSHIKI – composer, drummer, pianist, and...
The Big Brother Naija All Stars winner, Ilebaye Odiniya, sits with Chude Jideonwo host of #WithChude to discuss how being betrayed at a young age has made her afraid of making friends, how being bullied in the house made her feel alone and abandoned, the depression she had to fight off after the first...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike has said that the survival of democracy in the country is hinged on the very vital role played by the judiciary. Barrister Wike made the assertion when a delegation of Federal High...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has announced partial traffic restriction along Nyanya-Keffi expressway on Saturday for its 2023 Annual 10 Kilometers Walk/Jog Exercise to be held in all NAF Bases nationwide. The Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, made...
Police rescue 3 kidnap victims in Kaduna The Police Command in Kaduna State has said security operatives have rescued three labourers kidnapped by suspected gunmen on Thursday in Kaduna. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer(PPRO), ASP Mansir Hassan,said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Director of the film, The Black Book, Editi Effiong sits with Chude Jideonwo, host of #WithChude to discuss the loss of his brother to cancer, the making of the film – The Black Book, the story of that day when it seemed like everything on the set of the film had failed, how he collapsed in tears, into the...
The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), on Thursday commended Nigerian afrobeats star, Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, for an outstanding performance during the 2023 Ballon d’Or awards held in Paris, France. Its Director-General, Mrs Oluwabunmi Amao, who recounted how electrifying Rema’s performance was,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has supervised the palliative distribution of N175m cash and food items for over 50,000 vulnerable residents in Dikwa town of Dikwa Local Government Area. The distribution started on Thursday and rounded up on Friday morning with each...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Thursday, inspected 1000 housing projects at Logumani and Gajibo communities of Ngala and Dikwa Local Government Areas, respectively. Both communities were destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents and residents were displaced since 2014. At Logumani where 500...
The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) in connection with alleged mismanagement of the US$321 million and N18.2 billion loans. The loans were designated for accelerated transmission and distribution interface, lines, and substation projects....
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, said on Thursday, that those accusing him of demanding 25 per cent from Rivers government were ignorant. Wike stated this when a delegation of Rivers Caucus in the 10th National Assembly comprising three Senators and 11...
Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of an FCT High Court on Thursday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimea Commission (EFCC) to either release the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, immediately or produce him in court on Nov. 6. Justice Adeniyi gave the...
No fewer than 58 of the 69 students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife arrested on Wednesday for suspected internet fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been released. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the students were arrested during a midnight...
Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has again assured supporters that the APC would surely win the Nov. 11 Governorship Election in the state with a wide margin, on the strength of his administration’s unprecedented achievements. Bello gave the assurance in Lokoja on Thursday, when he received the Chief...