The Federal Government has inducted eight female achievers into the Nigerian Women Hall of Fame at the National Center for Women Development (NCWD) for their outstanding performance in their professional fields. Mrs Pauline Tallen, Minister of Women Affairs, while inducting the women commended the inductees for their contribution and...
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The Lagos State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) says no fewer than 20 lawyers and legal professionals have volunteered to help the party and its candidates retrieve their allegedly stolen mandates. The party at a meeting with some of its candidates in the last general elections, said that...
The Presidency says the high inflation in the country is a world-wide problem which no nation is immune to following the global economic downturn and the COVID-19 pandemic. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman stated this while reacting to a Guardian newspaper write-up, tying the rise in inflation to...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – No fewer than four persons have been killed by gunmen, who opened fire on the convoy of staff of U.S Consulate, in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State. Anambra State Police spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Tuesday...
By ESTHER AGADA, NKECHI ANADU, FOLASHADE OGUNREMI & ZAINAB SHUAIB We are the Mothers of the Nation; we gave birth to the incoming senators and members of the House of Representatives in the 10th National Assembly (NASS). We are women who vote. We are the women who voted for...
The Minority Parties Forum in the House of Representatives has endorsed the candidature of Hon. Tajudeen Abbas and Hon. Benjamin Kalu as the preferred candidates for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 10th Assembly. Leader of the Forum, Hon. Iduma Igariwey (PDP-Ebonyi) announced this in a communique after...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested no fewer than 85 drugs suspects at a nightclub in Kano on Monday. Commander of the NDLEA in the state, Mr Abubakar Idris-Ahmad, said in a statement on Tuesday, that the arrests...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Lagos State Police Command has arrested a fake officer, who had been parading himself as a Police Inspector under the command. The police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirm the arrest to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos He said the suspect had been operating with...
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, says governors from the North Central zone have not made any public statement on the zoning formula for parliamentary positions. The governor debunked a media report quoting them as rejecting the position of the APC leadership on the issue. This is contained in a...
The death toll in the armed clashes between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has climbed to 822, the Sudanese Doctors Union said Tuesday. “The number of civilian deaths since the beginning of the clashes has climbed to 822 with 3,215 injuries,” the nongovernmental organisation said...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has said that the present education backwardness being witnessed in the northern part of the country was caused by people of the area. The minister stated this at the public presentation of Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS)...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has sworn in Dr Mahmuda Isah as FCT Resident Electoral Commissioner at the INEC Headquarters, Abuja for a second and final term. Isah took his oath of office during the Commission’s weekly meeting, which has the INEC Chairman,...
Bayern Munich will face Liverpool and Manchester City during their trip to Asia as part of their pre-season preparations in summer, the two English clubs said on Tuesday. The German record champions will play against Manchester City on July 26 in Japan and face Liverpool on Aug. 2 in...
Bolt, a mobility application, has announced €2.5 million pledge to empower more women to drive with it and other ride-hailing platforms. Bolt, in a statement on Tuesday, said that the pledge formed part of the company’s newly launched campaign called “Women at the Wheel”. The company said it sought...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Tuesday, gave reasons it resorted to the trial of the suspended DCP Abba Kyari and his co-defendants behind closed doors. Counsel for the NDLEA, Mr Sunday Joseph, told newsmen who were barred from covering the sitting shortly after the case was...
A Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Tuesday ordered that a 22-year-old man, Ibrahim Musa, who allegedly stabbed his biological mother, Hajara Mohammed, 50, be remanded in a correction centre.. The police charged Musa, who lives in Bachirawa Quarters Kano, with standing culpable homicide. The Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Rabi’a...
A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, on Tuesday ordered remand of afrobeat singer Seun Kuti for alleged assault on a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Olatubosun, held that Kuti should be remanded for 48 hours in police custody. She, however,...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 22.22 per cent on a year-on-year basis in April 2023. This is according to the NBS Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for April 2023 released in Abuja on Tuesday. According to the report, the...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the death of its operative, Inspector Abel Dickson, after a scuffle with his colleagues over the custody of some items recovered from a suspect. EFCC sokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the death during a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. Uwujaren...