External auditors, PKF Professional Services, has began audit of Benue Investment and Property Company Limited (BIPC). Managing Director, (MD/CEO) of BIPC, Dr. Raymond Asemakaha, who disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Makurdi, said PKF professional services was a “tier-one” auditing firm. Asemakaha also stated BIPC had in...
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The wife of Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, Haj. Silifat Sule, has donated foodstuff to 2, 200 vulnerable persons in Toto Local Government Area of the state. Presenting the items on Monday in Toto, Sule said that the gesture was part of her modest contributions toward bettering...
38-year old Marvellous Omobayo was sworn in on Monday as the new Edo Deputy Governor to replace his predecessor, Philip Shaibu, who was impeached from office. The Chief Judge of Edo, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, administered the Oath of Office at the Government House in Benin. The...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – No fewer than 9 persons have lost their lives and over 30 others sustained various degrees of injury during a stampede that occured at the residence of Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamako in Sokoto. Though, at the time of filing this report, the Police...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia has condemned in its entirety the Saturday’s attack on the private residence of the member of the House of Representatives for Katsina-Ala/Ukum/Logo Federal Constituency, Solomon Wombo, where his housekeeper was mercilessly brutalized, leaving him in a pool...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has suspended all events at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. Wike announced the suspension after he inspected the centre in Abuja on Monday. He explained that the suspension was to enable Julius Berger to carry out holistic...
By EMMANUEL Kuje, Abuja – The operatives of the FCT police command, on April 4, 2024, at about 2:00 PM, arrested one Chukwuemeka Oputa A.K.A. Pounds and Dollar ‘m’, 38 years old, of Umuaka, Njaba, Imo State, and the leader of an armed robbery gang responsible for series...
Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa on Monday, gave a legal practitioner, Oladotun Hassan, a seven-day ultimatum to retract his allegation of certificate forgery levelled against him or be sued. Governor Aiyedatiwa, in a letter titled: “Defamatory Publications Against Mr Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa” written by his counsel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa,...
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, discharged and acquitted a former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr Ropo Adesanya and four others standing trial in a case of conspiracy and breach of peace. The defendants, James Dada, 49; Jegede James, 65; Jegede Ebenezer,...
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Prof. Florence Obi, has relieved Prof. Victor Ecoma of his appointment as the Head of Department of the university’s Fine and Applied Arts Department for alleged negligence and incompetence. This is contained in a statement signed by the university’s...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced an investigation of 14 suspected oil thieves alongside a Motor Fishing Trawler, MFT, Hawwau Tanko, handed over to the Commission by the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu and other notable dignitaries have joined others to witness the funeral and memorial service in honour of the late Obong Enobong Thomas Umanah, founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State. In...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Government has restated its commitment to ensuring that adequate healthcare is provided as a right to every citizen of the state and not a privilege as government would remain dedicated to upholding this truth for the benefit of all Benue...
Mohammed Sheriff, counsel for the detained President, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, on Monday, said his client was yet to make valid statement in the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA)’s custody. Sheriff, who is one of the team of lawyers representing Bodejo before Justice Inyang Ekwo of a...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The immediate past Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has congratulated the former Senate President, Senator David Mark on his 76th birthday. A statement by the media aide to the former Governor Ortom, said Senator Mark deserved all the accolades, prayers and...
212 people have been hospitalised in Japan due to health damage related to the intake of Kobayashi pharmaceutical dietary supplement containing red yeast rice, or beni- koji. Local media reported on Monday. The figure was updated as of Sunday; with those who have since been discharged included, national...
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday remanded the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, for alleged abuse of office. Oshodi remanded Emefiele in the EFCC custody while his co-defendant, Henry Isioma-Omoile, was remanded in Ikoyi Custodial Centre where...
More than 90 people have died after a boat capsized off Mozambique’s northern coast on Sunday, authorities reported. Those aboard the boat were fleeing a cholera outbreak and were travelling from Lunga to Mozambique Island, off the coast of Nampula, local media reported. The fishing boat could accommodate...
Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf has said he is focused on taking the state to greater heights than engaging former governor of the state, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje in war of attrition. Yususf through his Director-General Media and Publicity, Malam Sunusi Bature, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arraigned the Binance Holdings Limited’s executive, Tigran Gambaryan, on alleged money laundering charge following the dismissal of his objection by a Federal High Court, Abuja. Gambaryan was arraigned by the EFCC on five-count charge before Justice Emeka Nwite. He...