The Police Command in Cross River, says it has discovered a factory producing guns and explosives at Osomba community in Akamkpa Local Government Area of the state. A team of the command’s Anti Cultism and Kidnapping Squad, led by SP Ogini Chukwuma uncovered the factory and recovered cache of...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – In what could be tagged a successful outing in the operational front during the first six months of the year 2023, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has recorded a decline in the total number of road traffic crashes, total number...
The General Overseer, Omega Power Ministries (OPM), Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, has gifted a 72-year-old widow, Mrs Esther Ogu, One million naira, while also promising to pay her salary for life. Chinyere, who made the presentation of the cheque to the widow at his residence in Port Harcourt on Wednesday,...
The Commander, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Maj.-Gen. Abdusalam Abubakar, has visited some wounded soldiers currently undergoing treatment at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH). Capt. James Oya, the Media Officer of OPSH, said in a statement on Wednesday, that affected personnel were those wounded in the ongoing...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, said on Wednesday that Artificial Intelligence-powered solutions have the potential to address some of Africa’s most pressing challenges, such as limited access to healthcare, food security, financial inclusion, and infrastructure development....
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, restrained the national body of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from dissolving the Rivers’ chapter of the State Executive Committee (SEC) over alleged anti-party activities. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, said he found that the case of the plaintiff, Mr...
The Director General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Dr Joseph Ochogwuo, on Wednesday identified trust building among Nigerians as a way of tackling the Japa Syndrome. Japa syndrome is the massive emigration of Nigerians to other countries by all means and the need to put...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kayode Ariwoola on Wednesday swore in nine Justices of the Court of Appeal. Ariwoola while administering the oath of office to the new judges, said:”the level of public scrutiny of your conduct will, henceforth, assume astronomical dimension because you have...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has flagged off the distribution of agricultural inputs to one thousand seven hundreds beneficiaries from Gwoza, Chibok and Damboa Federal Constituency donated by House of Representatives member representing the constituency Honourable Ahmed Usman Jaha. The occasion which took...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A Civil Rights group, Accountable Leadership for Better Nigeria (ALBNI) has advised the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) against toeing the path of injustice and jeopardy against the Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Professor Jesse...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Lafia – The Founder and President of Al-Ansar Foundation, Dr. Mohammed Kyari Dikwa has charged participants of the 18th Northern Zonal Accountants Conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) to maintain trust, transparency abd accountability in both public and private financial...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Football Association (FA) has commenced training of thirty one match commissioners drawn from the 18 local government Areas of the state. Declaring the 2023 Seminar/Workshop open on Tuesday at the U.J.Esuene Stadium, the Commissioner of Sports Development, Mrs Agnes Atsu...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Independent Electoral Commission (BOSIEC) has commenced the sales of nomination and interest forms for chairmanship and councillorshp Election at the State APC Secretariat in Maiduguri. The Borno APC Chairman, Hon Bello Ayuba, who stated this in an interaction with newsmen in...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Kano – The Chief of UNICEF Field Office in Kano State, Dr. Rahama Farahhas advised that all hands must urgently be on the deck towards halting the escalation of diphtheria disease. Dr. Farah, who spoke on Tuesday in Kano at a one day media...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said he plans to run for a fourth term in elections due to be held next year. A former rebel chief, Kagame became president in April 2000 but has been regarded as the country’s de facto leader since the end of the 1994...
Auchi Polytechnic in Edo has granted amnesty to four repentant cultists.aucji Dr Salisu Umar, the Rector of the polytechnic made this known on Wednesday, while addressing the repentant cult members. Umar urged the students of the institution to renounce their membership in cults. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), on Wednesday tasked Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to follow due process in the selection of the next Alaafin of Oyo. Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Executive Director, MURIC, said this in a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday. “There has been prolonged controversy over...
The governorship candidate of Lagos PDP in the 2023 general elections, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as JANDOR, has described as ‘very unfortunate’ circumstances surrounding the death of late musician, Ilerioluwa Aloba, known as Mohbad. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that music lovers were on Sept. 12...
Russia on Wednesday called on both Armenia and Azerbaijan to stop hostilities following Baku’s launch of a military operation in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the southern Caucasus. “Due to the rapid escalation of armed clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh, we call on the parties to the conflict to...