Vice President Kashim Shettima has disclosed that Nigeria has mobilised more than half a billion dollars for innovative, profitable, equitable and sustainable food system transformation initiative. Mr Olusola Abiola, Director, Information, Office of the Vice President, in a statement said that Shettima made this known while chairing a...
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A group known as the Coalition of Nigerian Civil Society on Tuesday prayed a Federal High Court to allow it hold a watching brief in the arraignment of immediate past Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele charged with illegal possession of firearms. The group represented by...
An earthquake of 5.5-magnitude shook the southern Turkish province of Adana on Tuesday morning, according to the Kandilli earthquake monitoring centre in Istanbul. The centre said the quake occurred at 8:44 am (0544 GMT). Its epicentre was in the district of Kozan, about 64 kilometres from the city of...
By HARUNA AHMED,Yola – The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested three suspects for allegedly gang raping a 15-year- old girl in Mayo Belwa LGA of the state. The police spokesman in the state, SP Suleiman Nguroje, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in...
The suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday pleaded not guilty before a Federal High Court Lagos, to a charge of illegal possession of firearms. The Department of State Services (DSS) charged him with two counts bordering on alleged possession of firearms. In the...
Mrs Martha Paul, a 60-year-old resident of Tudun Wada Community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau, has decried the rising intake of local dry gin, popularly known as “Goskolo”, among youths in Plateau. Martha told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Jos that the...
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is calling for an investigation into the reported terrorist attack on its presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Yola, Adamawa. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, made the call in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja. Ologunagba said that the PDP...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas has inaugurated an Ad hoc Committee to investigate alleged 9.05 billion dollar-revenue loss from gas flaring in the last one decade in Nigeria. Abbas, at the inauguration of the House ad hoc committee on Gas Flaring on Monday,...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – Nigerian Army troops in conjunction with Vigilante Group have raided the camps of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network, and arrested nine suspected terrorists in Anambra. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this...
Bingham University, Karu, Nasarawa State, has promised to support the police in its investigation over the death of a bolt driver, Mr Obasi Okeke. This is contained in a statement by the Director of Public Affairs of the institution, Mr Daburi Misal on Monday in Karu. Misal...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday reported that no fewer than 435 children had been killed and more than 2,000 others injured in 100 days of fighting in Sudan. UNICEF stated that the figure is based on credible reports, noting that the true figure was likely to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – About 23,000 households on Monday received food palliatives at distributions that were directly supervised by Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum in Baga town of Kukawa Local Government Area. “Distribution of palliatives is one of the agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He (Tinubu)...
Kano Pillars Football Club have unveiled Abdullahi Maikaba as their new coach for the next one year. Speaking at the event on Monday in Kano, Babangida Little, the chairman of the club, promised the coach a favourable working environment. “The unveiling is like a ritual for us. Maikaba is one...
No fewer than seven persons have lost their lives while five others injured in an accident on Monday at Kirila village along Birniwa-Malammadori road in Jigawa. Mr Gambo Ibrahim, the Public Relations Officer (PRO), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed this in a Road Traffic Crash (RTC) report...
The Enugu State Government on Monday sealed 106 shops and two banks for allegedly observing Monday’s sit-at-home order by a faction of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra. . The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the exercise was carried out by officials of the State Government and Enugu...
By BARBARA KALU, Umuahia – Troops of 14 Brigade, operating under 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, have rescued 13 abducted victims on the Ngodo-Isuochi Road in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia. The Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement issued to...
Eight occupants of a 2-storey building at Inalende area of Ibadan, on Monday morning escaped death as the building collapsed following a prolonged downpour. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that neighbours and other sympathisers rushed to the scene and rescued all the eight occupants at...
By GRACE AUDU (Health Correspondent) – The World Health Organization (WHO), shared on Monday its latest guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STI) at the STI & HIV 2023 World Congress taking place in Chicago, the United States of America, on 24-27 July 2023. With STIs on the rise, WHO...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – Four suspected members of the Boko Haram terrorist group have been apprehended by the Police in Yola, for attempting to attack the residence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The arrest of the four suspects was confirmed by the Atiku Media Office in a...