Vice President Kassim Shettima on Monday inaugurated the Centre of Excellence complex worth N15 billion at the Bayero University Kano (BUK). The edifice includes 109-room accommodation with state-of-the-art facilities, departmental blocks and a plenary section. Shettima, while performing the ceremony, said the centre was constructed by the Central Bank...
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Ex- Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi on Monday received a heroic welcome from a huge crowd in his country home, Okene, after his eight years tenure as governor of the middle belt state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that in what looks like a celebration of...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The Troops of the Nigerian Army under the Joint Task Force in the North West, Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) has rescued 35 kidnapped victims in Katsina state. The Information officer to the operation, Capt. Yahaya Ibrahim stated this in a statement issued in Gusau...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has promised to complete the Inner Southern Expressway project by December this year. The minister gave the assurance when shortly after he inspected some ongoing road projects within the FCT on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria...
A driver with an e-hailing company, Mr Kingsley Benson, on Monday saved a passenger who was on a suicide mission in Calabar. The driver, who spoke with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), explained that he had observed something quite unusual with his passenger when she boarded his vehicle....
A former Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, alongside two other principal career officers of the assembly, Dayo Samuel and Adeyemo Adedeji, have been arraigned before a Federal High court sitting in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, capital of the state, presided over by Justice O.O...
A 400-level student of the Department of Statistics, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN)g, Mr Qudus Owoyemi, has set a new world record for the fastest time devoted to completing five skin fade haircuts. According to the University bulletin issued on Monday, the remarkable achievement was accomplished in just 14...
Senator Okey Ezea (LP- Enugu-North) has dismissed a report of alleged corruption, bribery and oil bunkering against the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla. In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday the Senator said the sponsored publication “is baseless, malicious and orchestrated to harass and...
By BARBARA KALU, Port Harcourt – Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC,) says it is prepared to go into partnership with an indigenous cassava starch manufacturing factory in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State to create job opportunities for the youths. NDDC’s Executive Director, Projects, Sir Victor Antai, gave...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has condoled with retired Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar over the death of his younger sister, Hajiya Salamatu Asabe. The president’s condolence message is contained in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale. The president commiserated with Abubakar,...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said there is no going back on conducting its first ever Computer Based Test (CBT) of its WASSCE for private candidates. The council’s Head of National Office (HNO) Dr Amos Josiah Dangut stated this at a media parley on Monday in...
A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, ordered the remand of three persons in the correctional centre over alleged killing of one Titus Elaigwu at the wake of a deceased. The court, which lacks jurisdiction to hear a case of murder , did not take the pleas...
The Police Command in Ogun have rescued nine out of the 10 members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos kidnapped by gunmen last Thursday on their way back to Lagos from Ibadan. Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Mr Abiodun Alamutu, confirmed the release at a news briefing...
A 75-yar-old businessman, Michael Kundera, has prayed an FCT High Court to order the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay him N500 million in damages for allegedly violating his fundamental rights. Other respondents are the former EFCC boss, Abdulrasheed Bawa, one Calistus, an officer with the...
Prominent Abuja-based real estate investor, Chief Yohana Margif, urged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, to be cautious in his efforts to restore the Abuja master plan. Margif, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
The lawmaker representing Anambra South in the National Assembly, Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah, has called on the people of Anambra to give him their mandate in the 2025 governorship election to enable him address the state’s leadership questions. Senator Ubah, a member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), who...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – The Benue State Police Command has launched investigation after a body of a yet to be identified young woman was recovered in a refuse dump in Makurdi. The corpse was tied, put into a sack and left at a refuse dump around Iorapuu Adai...
All seven occupants of a small plane died in a crash in Brazil on Sunday, according to media reports. Pieces of the single-engine aircraft fell in a field in the municipality of Itapeva in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais, the fire brigade said on Facebook. The plane...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday, presided over the swearing-in of 29 special advisers, 27 Local Government chairpersons, and 7 permanent secretaries to the state Civil Service. The oath of allegiance and office was administered by the Borno State Chief Judge, Justice...