By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – There was palpable tension in Rafin Zurfi Community in Bauchi Local Government Area of Bauchi State as youths and women on Monday, blocked the ever-busy Bauchi – Dass road, protesting the detention of the Rafin Zurfi traditional ruler (Mai Angwa Rafin Zurfi), Patrick...
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By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – A twelve years old JSS two student of Junior Secondary School, Kurmin Tagwaye II, in Akwanga, Favour Williams, was last week Monday, found death in a mysterious way in her father’s farm. Favour, allegedly hung her self in the farm in Kurmin twagwaye II...
The leadership of the Students’ Union of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has appealed to the university management to reverse the recent increase in tuition fees. Mr Abass Ojo, the president of the Union, made the appeal at a news conference at the university premises in Ile-Ife...
The presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has urged the Commonwealth nations to pay special attention to small businesses. This, he said, will enable them to achieve sustainable growth and development across its countries. Obi, the former governor of Anambra, underscored...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Enugu State Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Kanayo Uzuegbu, has ordered the deployment of more men to rescue a Rev Father and three other persons abducted on Sunday in the state. Recall that the victims were abducted along Eke-Egede axis of...
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu is set to address world leaders at the ongoing 78th session of the high-level General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu, in...
The eight-man team of young Nigerian-robotics scientists are set to depart for Singapore Oct. 7 to represent Nigeria in a global competition, the team’s Facilitator disclosed in Lagos on Monday. The team’s mentor, Mr Ibikunle Joshua-Olayinka, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos,...
The aggrieved traditional kingmakers in Oyo town, known as Oyomesi, have said that Gov. Seyi Makinde rejected the nominee forwarded to him as the next Alaafin of Oyo because his selection did not follow due process. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the kingmakers comprised the...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) said the oil and gas industry generated over $23billion in 2021. The Executive Secretary of NEITI, Dr Orji Ogbonnaya-Orji said this while presenting highlights on the 2021 Oil and Gas report unveiled on Monday in Abuja. According to Ogbonnaya Orji,...
Nigerian rapper and songwriter, Folarin Falana, popularly known as “Falz”, has bagged the Social Media Awards (SMA) for ‘fellow with the best use of social media in a crisis’. Also, Nollywood Actress, Bimbo Ademoye, won the most engaging actress on social media while Stan Nze emerged the most engaging...
The First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, has called on the diasporas to contribute their quota to the “Renewed Hope Agenda” of President Bola Tinubu led administration. She also called on Nigerian youths to have hope in the efforts of the current administration to deliver on the dividends...
While demographics and capital can fuel a Nigerian economic boom, small and medium sized enterprises will sustain its growth, says Wally Adeyemo, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Treasury. Adeyemo, the highest-ranking member of African diaspora in the Biden led administration, who is on a trip to Nigeria, said this...
The Tor Tiv, His Royal Majesty, Begha U Tiv, Ochivirigh, Prof Ortese Iorzua James Ayatse, has refuted an age long legend that Tiv men allow their visitors pass the night with their wives as the icing on their entertainment cake The Tor Tiv’s significant Royal disapprobation of the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Coalition of Civil Society Organization against Corruption and Social Vices (CCSOACS) has called on anti-graft agencies to probe the members of the House of Representatives ad hoc committee allegedly involved in extorting money from ministries, departments and agencies under the guise...
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr Idowu Owohunwa, on Monday announced the arrest of three suspects, who allegedly robbed and killed Mr Sanni Adeniyi, an Aide to Senator Solomon Yayi. Owohunwa told newsmen at the command’s headquarters, Ikeja , that the suspects were arrested in Lagos...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of 18 Special Advisers and Senior Special Assistants to actualise the agenda of the Federal Government across the different sectors of the economy. The Director of Information, Office of the Vice President, Mr Olusola Abiola,...
Troops of 82 Division, Nigerian Army, and the Nigerian Police have neutralised six combatants of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN) in different encounters in Abia and Enugu States. This is contained in a statement by the Director of...
The Ogun Police Command has confirmed the arrest of nine suspected cultists following the killing of eight persons over the weekend in Sagamu as rival cult groups clashed. Speaking at a news conference in Abeokuta on Monday, Abiodun Alamutu, the Commissioner of Police, said the remote cause of...
Some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa, including the party’s Youth Leader, Nunieh Odede, have dumped the party. Odede and others switched allegiance from Gov. Douye Diri to the Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva, ahead of the November 11...