The Police on Thursday arraigned 41 persons at a Federal High Court in Ibadan over alleged illegal mining. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendants were arraigned before Justice U.N. Agomoh on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and illegal mining. The Prosecution Counsel, Mr...
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By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Tiv Youths Organisations (TYO) has taken moves aimed at protecting Tiv land which they said was an inheritance from their fore fathers. Speaking on Thursday during the inauguration of coordinators of the organisation in Makurdi, the President General of TYO Mr. Aondongu...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – In Plateau, members of the Coalition of Indigenous Fulani Registered Organisations are seeking an investigation into the killing of a 17-year old Fulani herder and the theft of over 170 cattle in Barkin-Ladi local government area. The chairman of the coalition, Garba Abdulahi...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has said his administration is targeting the construction of 85,000 new houses in 66 communities in the state aimed at resettling IDPs and other victims of Boko Haram insurgency. Zulum stated this on Thursday when he received a...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has suspended the Managing Director/CEO of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad. The president also suspended 3 others namely – Olaniyi Alaba Netufo — Executive Director, Corporate Services; Barka Sajou — Executive Director, Technical Services; Sa’adatu Balgore —...
An EFCC witness, Bamaiyi Mairiga on Thursday told an FCT high court, Maitama that the signatures of former President Muhammadu Buhari and the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, were forged. Mairiga, a forensic document examiner with the EFCC, said this while...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) ,FCT chapter, has proposed N709,000 as new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. The NLC FCT Chairman, Dr Stephen Knabayi, made the submission at the North Central Zonal Public Hearing organised by the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage on Thursday in Abuja....
The Lagos State Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mrs Funmi Sessi, on Thursday proposed N794,000 as minimum wage for the average Nigerian worker. She made the declaration during the South-West Zonal Public Hearing on the National Minimum Wage held in Lagos. The hearing, organised by the Tripartite Committee...
The House of Representatives is set to probe the N200 billion spent on the suspended 2023 Population and Housing Census. This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Clement Akanni (PDP-Osun), during plenary in Abuja on Thursday. Moving the motion, Akanni said the immediate-past administration of former...
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Food Security, Mrs Yejide Ogundipe, has said the era of paying lip service towards supporting women farmers in the country is over. Speaking at an event commemorating the 2024 International Women’s Day organised by the Nigerian Women for Agricultural Progress...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, and others, on Thursday, prayed a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja to dismiss a suit filed by a lawyer, Azubuike Oko, seeking to stop the appointment of 12 judges into the FCT High Court. Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, who appeared...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Thursday said the air component of Operation Hadarin Daji has conducted air strikes on the enclaves of two terrorists in separate attacks in Katsina and Zamfara. The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, AVM Edward Gabkwet,...
The Wife of the President and Nigeria’s First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu and Wife of the Vice President, Mrs Nana Shettima, and other prominent women have been listed in the “Nigeria Women Annual: 100 Leading Women.” The publication is a biographical compendium on accomplished women leaders in Nigeria...
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Dr. Tajuddeen Abbas, has filed a direct criminal complaint against Suleman Wakili, former member, Kaduna State House of Assembly before a Magistrates’ Court No. 6 sitting at Chediya, GRA Zaria. At the resumed hearing of the case on Thursday in Zaria, Mr....
The Nigerian Institute of Physics (NIP) says that only 13,112,134 Nigerians are registered to have access to electricity in Nigeria, out of its total estimated population of 230 million people. The General Manager, Regulation and Compliance, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Ali Bukar Ahmad, made this known on...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar III and Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, will inaugurate an ultra-modern multi-million naira Central Mosque and Islamic Center in the State. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the ultra-modern Friday Mosque named: Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi Integrated Islamic Centre, consists...
President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero has called for “Market Hearing” on prices of food , to enable the minimum wage committee arrive at a reasonable minimum wage. Ajaero, who is chairing the ongoing North East Zonal Public Hearing on National Minimum Wage made the call in...
A mild drama played out at the Area Court, Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, on Thursday when one Aminat Nagode-Allah burst into tears while accusing her husband of abandoning their matrimonial bed. Nagode-Allah had approached the court seeking to divorce her husband, Ismail Gobir, on grounds of lack of love and...
Operatives of the Police Command in Edo have arrested 22 suspected cultists in the state. The suspects were reportedly arrested in a hotel in Benin where they were holding a meeting, ahead of an attack on some members of a rival group. Spokesperson of the command, SP Chidi...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Minister of Education, Pro. Tahir Mamman has charged African Researchers and Educationist to harness the power of research and education to propel the African continent forward. The Minister made this call while declaring open a conference of West African and Central African...