The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria, has followed due process in the purchase of Zaria Hotel for the institute, a document has revealed. A report exclusively obtained by a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent confirmed that the popularly hotel in the ancient city was purchased at...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has ordered for the immediate rehabilitation of Baga General Hospital and a Primary Healthcare Centre in Doron Baga both in Kukawa Local Government Area located in the northern part of the state. The governor also directed the...
Alhaji Lamidi Apapa, act the acting National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), has prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja, to compel the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police to eject the embattled LP National Chairman, Julius Abure, from the party’s national secretariat. Apapa, in a fresh suit filed before Justice Ahmed...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other Social Protection Development Partners including Save the Children, Ministry of Finance, and others have teamed up to redefine Nigeria’s poverty profile by expanding social protection. At the opening ceremony of a two-day policy and programmatic dialogue...
The National Industrial Court on Tuesday affirmed the recognition of Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) and National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) as trade unions. The claimant in the suit, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), dragged the Minister of Labour and Employment, The...
Justice Nicholas Oweibo of a Federal High in Lagos, on Tuesday admitted the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele to bail in the sum of N20million. Emefiele is standing trial on a two-counts charge bordering on possession of a single barrel shot gun, as well...
A renewable energy expert, Mr Chinedu Amah, has urged President Bola Tinubu to set up a committee to look into the alleged N37 billion investment project in free meter procurement and installation meant for Nigerians. Amah, who is the founder of Spark Nigeria Ltd., made the appeal in an...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has disclosed that Nigeria has mobilised more than half a billion dollars for innovative, profitable, equitable and sustainable food system transformation initiative. Mr Olusola Abiola, Director, Information, Office of the Vice President, in a statement said that Shettima made this known while chairing a...
A group known as the Coalition of Nigerian Civil Society on Tuesday prayed a Federal High Court to allow it hold a watching brief in the arraignment of immediate past Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele charged with illegal possession of firearms. The group represented by...
The suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday pleaded not guilty before a Federal High Court Lagos, to a charge of illegal possession of firearms. The Department of State Services (DSS) charged him with two counts bordering on alleged possession of firearms. In the...
Mrs Martha Paul, a 60-year-old resident of Tudun Wada Community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau, has decried the rising intake of local dry gin, popularly known as “Goskolo”, among youths in Plateau. Martha told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Jos that the...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas has inaugurated an Ad hoc Committee to investigate alleged 9.05 billion dollar-revenue loss from gas flaring in the last one decade in Nigeria. Abbas, at the inauguration of the House ad hoc committee on Gas Flaring on Monday,...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday reported that no fewer than 435 children had been killed and more than 2,000 others injured in 100 days of fighting in Sudan. UNICEF stated that the figure is based on credible reports, noting that the true figure was likely to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – About 23,000 households on Monday received food palliatives at distributions that were directly supervised by Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum in Baga town of Kukawa Local Government Area. “Distribution of palliatives is one of the agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He (Tinubu)...
No fewer than seven persons have lost their lives while five others injured in an accident on Monday at Kirila village along Birniwa-Malammadori road in Jigawa. Mr Gambo Ibrahim, the Public Relations Officer (PRO), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed this in a Road Traffic Crash (RTC) report...
The Enugu State Government on Monday sealed 106 shops and two banks for allegedly observing Monday’s sit-at-home order by a faction of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra. . The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the exercise was carried out by officials of the State Government and Enugu...
Eight occupants of a 2-storey building at Inalende area of Ibadan, on Monday morning escaped death as the building collapsed following a prolonged downpour. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that neighbours and other sympathisers rushed to the scene and rescued all the eight occupants at...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – Four suspected members of the Boko Haram terrorist group have been apprehended by the Police in Yola, for attempting to attack the residence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The arrest of the four suspects was confirmed by the Atiku Media Office in a...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – A panel is set to discuss the implications of digital culture for democracy during the public presentation of a book by the Head of Media Relations at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Omoniyi Ibietan, on Tuesday, 25 July 2023, the publishers of...