Sen. Abdulaziz Yar’adua (APC-Katsina) has emerged Chairman, Northern Senators’ Forum (NSF). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Yar’adua emerged after a meeting of the group in Abuja on Thursday. NAN also reports that Yar’adua takes over from Sen. Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi), who resigned from the position...
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The Defence Headquarters has said the 112 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who were abducted by terrorists in Borno recently, reportedly went beyond the permissible distance from their camp without informing the camp officials. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known while giving update...
Members of the Northern Governors’ Forum have gone into closed door meeting with the National Security Adviser and Service Chiefs in Abuja. The meeting, holding in the Office of the National Security Adviser, opened at about 2pm, and may not be unconnected with the recent mass abduction of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Kogi State Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has called for improvement in funding for education to accelerate human capital development in Nigeria. The Governor made the call when he paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Architect Sonny Echono...
Police in Adamawa have arrested a 42 year-old man for raping his nine-year-old daughter at Kabak in Mubi South Local Government Area of the state. Police spokesman in the state, SP Suleiman Nguroje, stated on Thursday in Yola that the man was arrested on Tuesday following a report...
Senate has urged its Committees on Health to lobby for expansion of comprehensive coverage on treatment of chronic disease patients in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). It also urged the committee to work toward ensuring that financial constraints did not hinder access to essential treatments of chronic...
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has called for community driven reintegration and reconciliations process for repentant members of Non-State Armed Groups in the North East. Ribadu made the call at the launch of European Union (EU) Support for Disengagement, Review, Reintegration and Reconciliation of Persons...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for an independent investigation on the alleged N3.7 trillion budget padding by the National Assembly. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, made the call in a statement issued in Abuja. Ologunagba said that the investigation...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nandap, has directed all personnel deployed to the Nigeria-Niger border to resume work. Nandap gave the directive in a statement signed by the Acting Service Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr Kenneth Kure, on Thursday in Abuja....
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar- In its continued drive towards the actualization of its mandate of Poverty alleviation, Employment generation and wealth creation, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has flag off the training of 50 unemployed women across the state in two trendy skills, confectionery making as well...
The House of Representatives has decried the recurring destruction of oil and gas pipelines in the country. Rep. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, Chairman Special Committee on Oil Theft, condemned the act at a meeting with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Ltd. in Abuja. The engagement was to unravel the...
A 17-year old apprentice boy, Ojibe Chibueze, has reportedly died in an apparent suicide after being accused of stealing money from his boss. The Police spokesperson in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday. Hundeyin said that one Cynthia,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Benue Rebirth Movement (BRM) has charged the new Federal Permanent Secretaries appointed from Benue state to be good ambassadors of their people. BRM, a political pressure group which has been advocating for the emancipation and development of the Benue South Senatorial District,...
A former Lagos State Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Rafiu Olohunwa, has distanced himself from a malicious publication declaring him as the Union’s newly appointed Lagos State Chairman. In a statement signed and issued by him on Thursday in Lagos, Olohunwa described the purported...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The President General (PG) of Mzough u Tiv worldwide and Chairman Benue State Sociocultural Organisations, CP Iorbee Ihagh retired has said that the falsehood against Tiv man that he offers his wife to his visitor has finally been buried. Speaking with NATIONAL...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The Acting Chairman, Benue State Internal Revenue Service (BIRS), Mr.Emmanuel Agema has sought to partner with the Operation Whirl Stroke for effective performance. A statement by the Media Assistant to the BIRS Chairman, Jacinta Benard, said Mr. Agema said this on Wednesday...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said that most incidents of kidnapping in the nation’s capital were stage-managed by people. Wike stated this during a chat with journalists after a closed-door meeting with the Senate alongside the FCT Commissioner of Police, Benneth Igweh,...
The Police Command in Rivers has recovered the remains of the former Ahoada Divisional Police Officer (DPO), SP Bako Angbashim, who was killed by cultists. Angbashim was reportedly murdered by infamous Iceland cult leader, Gift Okpara, alias 2Baba. The police later gunned down the criminal mastermind two years...
Benue State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has suspended its strike. This is containing a statement issued and Signed on Wednesday in Makurdi by the ASUU Chairman and Secretary, Kwaghfan Tarnongo and Terrumun Gajir. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that academic...