By AISHA NANA, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Chairman of the Nigerian Legion, Warrant Officer Idris Danjuma Ningi retired on Sunday decorated the State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Mohammed Auwal Jatau with the 2024 Armed Forces Remembrance Tag. Shortly after the decoration, Auwal Jatau appreciated legionnaires for protecting...
Nigerian News
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), has confirmed the death of 200 persons from Lassa fever, representing 17.1 per cent in 28 States and 114 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in 2023. The NCDC, via its official website on Sunday, said that aside from the fatality,...
The embattled 27 Rivers lawmakers have said that their defection from PDP to APC was tied to President Bola Tinubu’s “Renewed Hope Agenda”. The factional Speaker, Martins Amaewhule, who led the mass defection, gave the reason at a “Thanksgiving and stakeholders’ meeting” of APC on Sunday in Port...
BY DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo – Taraba State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas has constituted an 18-man committee for the forthcoming 2023 Nwonyo fishing festival in Ibi Local Government Council of the state. Governor Kefas in a press statement released by his Chief Press Secretary and issued to NATIONAL...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting fresh election to fill the seats of the 26 Rivers House of Assembly members who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Donatus Okorowo, who gave...
The Director of Corporate Affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pius Ughakpoteni, was among those honoured by ThisDay Alumni Association at its First Annual Dinner in Abuja on Saturday.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Sunday explained why he refused to stop Pastor Afolabi Olaoye from contesting Soun of Ogbomoso’s stool. Adeboye, while speaking at the interdenominational thanksgiving services for the traditional ruler at Beulah Baptist Conference, Ogbomoso,...
A new breed of beggars known as “Corporate Beggars” is on the rise in Abuja. Findings by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) revealed that the corporate beggars take begging as a means of livelihood and even earn more than some workers. The beggars usually hangout around shopping...
Former House of Reps member, Alphonsus Komsol, has urged President Bola Tinubu to replace former Minister of Labour and Employment Simon Lalong with a new minister from the Plateau Central Senatorial Zone, for equity. The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, made the call in an open letter to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Labour Party (LP) on Sunday said it was being repositioned to clinch the governorship seat in the Edo 2024 election. National Publicity Secretary of LP, Mr Obiora Ifoh, made this known in a statement in Abuja. According to Ifoh, the party in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has debunked a notice of nationwide strike allegedly scheduled for Monday. It would be recalled that a statement purportedly signed by General Secretary of NLC and Secretary General of TUC, Emmanuel Ugboaja and Nuhu Toro respectively, indicated...
Amidst the challenges of rising food prices across the country, Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani, a Muslim woman, has distributed Christmas trees, wrappers and cash gifts to Christian widows and Pastors in Kaduna as part of this year’s Christmas celebration. Tijjani ,who is an international interfaith specialist highlighted that during Ramadan,...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Enugu State Police Commissioner, Kanayo Uzuegbu, has said the ban on sale and unauthorised use of fireworks, commonly known as “knockout” or “banger,” is still in force in the state. CP Uzuegbu stated this in a statement issued by the command’s...
A frontline governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the governorship election holding in the state on September 21, 2024, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, at the weekend, said he was going to free traditional rulers from the excessive power of the state governor...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed the death of 3 persons while seven others sustained injuries in an accident involving two vehicles at Conoil filling station axis on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Saturday. The Public Education Officer of FRSC in Ogun,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “over the failure to arrest and prosecute suspected perpetrators of grave electoral offences in the recently concluded off-cycle governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa...
Throughout his eight years as elected President (2015 to 2023), His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, never for a second, shied away from displaying his strong affection, overwhelming compassion and undiluted empathy for Borno State and its people. From his inaugural speech in 2015 to his actions till he...
By OUR HEALTH REPORTER – The World health Organization (WHO) has called for continued access to address urgent needs in north Gaza. The call came after the staff of the world health body participated in a joint UN mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza on 16 December to...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has disclosed that work will soon commence on the dualization of the the Ismaila Abbas petrol station-Akwanga to roundabout, via Lafia road to AYM Shafa petrol station, all in Akwanga. Governor Sule disclosed this during the commissioning of...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The immediate past national chairman of APC, Senator Abdullahi Adumu, Senator Aliyu Wadada, Hon. J.J Umaru and others, have lauded the developmental strides of Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State in the last four years. Gov Sule, got the commendation on Saturday in...