The grand finale of the annual Osun-Osogbo Festival ended on Friday with funfair and merriments at the site of the Osun-Osogbo groove in Osogbo, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. During the festival, Osun devotees, masquerades, traditionalists and royal fathers paid homage to the festival’s host, Ataoja...
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A matron at the Specialist Hospital, Gwagwalada, had told the mentally-challenged mother why she needed to give her baby breast milk, and warned that if she failed, the baby would fall sick. But Gure Ruth Chubani was in her own world and did not heed the advice given to her. “Even yesterday, I was telling her to start...
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu has pledged that National Assembly will priotise legislations that will boost direct foreign investments to Nigeria to make it the best business destination in Africa. Kalu said this on Friday when the Deputy Ambassador of Hungary to Nigeria Mr...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Friday called for calm and understanding among stakeholders in Okobo-Enjema Community in Akpa Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the community got embroiled in crisis with a mining company in the area, Eta-Zuma...
Rep. Musa Bagos (PDP-Plateau) has called on the security agencies to arrest and prosecute those behind the recent attacks and killings at Heipang in Barkin Ladi Local Government of Plateau. Bagos, representing Jos South/Jos East Constituency of the state, made the call in a statement on Friday in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government in collaboration with Multi sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (MCRP), State Ministry for Reconstruction, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (RRR) have trained and graduated 500 women in the production of households products. The trainees also got take off grant of N10 million...
No fewer than four worshippers have died and seven others injured when the Zaria Central Mosque in Kaduna state collapsed on Friday. Confirming the incident, the Emir of Zazzau, Mallam Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, said the victims were observing the Asr prayer around 4pm when the incident occurred. He...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday in Abuja reassured Nigerians that no stone will be left unturned in his administration’s multifarious efforts to stimulate the economy and make it work for the greatest good of all Nigerians. The President stated this in a...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), Save The Child Initiative (STCI), Nigeria has advised youths in Sokoto State to acquire skills alongside formal education. The Head of Mobility, Migration and Protection of STCI Nigeria, Malam Rabiu Gandi made the call on Friday during...
The Osun Government says it is working on improving and de-polluting the Osun River to be clearer and safer for drinking for residents, especially Osun River goddess devotees. Osun State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr Abiodun Bankole-Ojo, stated this on Friday while addressing journalists at the grand...
A collapsed Overhead Water Storage Tank has crushed a 34 year-old lady, Joy Amadi, to her death in Benin, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). A NAN Correspondent, who visited the scene of the incident, reports that the family of the deceased, who recently completed her NYSC service, has...
The Acting Inspector General of Police (IG-P), Kayode Egbetokun, says promotion in the Police Force will henceforth be based on merit. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Egbetokun stated this while addressing officers and men of the Kano State Police Command on Friday. He also said there would...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the allocation of N50 million alongside the construction of staff houses and students’ hostels at the Nigerian Army University, Biu (NAUB), which is owned by the Federal Government. The governor announced the interventions on Friday when...
The First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, on Friday in the presidential villa, Abuja, received Rebecca Kabu, one of the 277 Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014. The first lady, in company of the Wife of the Vice President, Hajia Nana Shettima, promised to ensure...
The Acting Chairman, Guma Local Government Area of Benue, Mr Japhet Hungwa, says villagers at Ortese Village had blocked the Makurdi-Lafia highway over continuous killing of their people. Mr Hungwa, who is the Director-General, Services and Administration (DGSA) of the LGA, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The immediate past Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has been presented with the “Most Outstanding Minister [Public Service Award 2023] by the National Waves Newspaper and Magazine. The Board of Editors of the...
There is heavy presence of security personnel at the Osun-Osogbo groove in Osogbo, as the annual festival begins to come to a close at the River Osun bank on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) observed that armed policemen and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that babies who are not exclusively breastfed have 14 times chances of dying before they celebrate their first birthday compared to those who went through exclusive breastfeeding. The Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Nigeria,...
The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating employment racketeering in MDAs on Thursday issued warrant of arrest on Mr Haruna Kolo, a former staff of Federal Characters Commission (FCC) and IPPIS desk officer. Mr. Kolo, who is now a staff of the Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON)...
The South-East Governors Forum has resolved to deal decisively with perpetrators and sponsors of insecurity in the region individually and collectively. The forum made the declaration in a communique issued at the end of its first meeting in Enugu on Thursday after inauguration of the new administrations. ...