The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has inaugurated a Coordinating Committee, on the Recovery of Outstanding Ground Rents of N29 billion owed the administration by property owners in Abuja. The Director, Information and Communication, FCTA, Mr Muhammad Sule, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the Permanent Secretary,...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Shehu of Borno, His Eminence, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Inn Garbai El Kanemi has advised management team of Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development (AFPD) to engage Emirs, district heads as well as other community and religious leaders in its advocacy and campaigns on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commissioned acute respiratory therapist treatment plant at the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri. The state Governor said the oxygen plants and solar direct drive refrigerators can go along way in complementing the efforts of the Borno State in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno Police Command has rescued a woman who was abducted by four kidnappers along Misko Road Minna, Niger State on Saturday last week and handed the victim over to her husband and relations in Maiduguri at the police headquarters. The Borno Commissioner of Police,...
INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kwara, Malam Garba Attahiru-Madami, says the Commission has nothing to do with primary elections of political parties. Attahiru-Madami made this known on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin. He said that contrary to the opinion of...
Urges police to deploy more technology By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Kano said three priorities of the administration, security, economy and corruption, have received significant attention, with measurable results, following his vision of making Nigeria more peaceful, prosperous and reliable, among nations. At...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The UN Nigeria Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Matthias Schmale has expressed concern over the recent violence against civilians in the north eastern part of the country. Mr. Schmale made his feelings known in a statement issued on Thursday by Mrs. Christina Powell, The...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘D’, have seized contraband worth N126 million from January to June, 2022. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that Zone ‘D’ comprises of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, Gombe, Plateau, Benue and Nassarawa States. The...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has announced Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate. Atiku made the announcement at a meeting attended by PDP executives at the party’s headquarters in Abuja. PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, said a 17-member committee had been...
Enugu Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has been lambasted on social media after he lashed out at the Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi. Mbaka said Obi can never be Nigeria’s President. He made the comment at his Adoration Ministry in Enugu State. According to him, unless God ceases to...
Candidates in the Ekiti State governorship election on Wednesday signed a Peace Accord ahead of the poll billed for Saturday. They signed the Peace Accord at an event held in Ado-Ekiti under the auspices of the National Peace Committee (NPC) led by a former Head of State General Abdulsalami...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Leading aspirant on the ticket of the APC for the 2023 governorship of Benue State Prof. Terhemba Shija has raised his voice against the spate of attacks being unleashed by armed bandits and other criminal elements on settlements in Benue State. Prof. Shija spoke...
Mr Sanusi Garba, Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), says Nigerians will witness improved power supply from July 1 following renewed efforts by industry stakeholders. Garba gave the assurance at an interactive session with newsmen after the Second Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) meeting on Wednesday in Lagos. The...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says it will begin the second phase (Phase One) of the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) in August 2022. The electricity sector regulator also said it received bids from 45 local meter manufacturers to participate in the programme and was currently reviewing them....
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – The Anambra State Police Command has rescued 35 teenagers aged between 14 years and 17 years who were allegedly being used as sex slaves. The command’s spokesman, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, who said this in a statement issued in Awka on Wednesday, said four of...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Properties worth several millions of Naira have been destroyed following a fire incident that gutted 42 shops at the Student Center at the Yelwa Campus of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi on Wednesday. The shops on block D which were destroyed included –...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Wednesday in Abuja began the vaccination and treatment of two million livestock across the Six Area Councils of the territory. The Mandate Secretary for the FCTA Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat, Malam Abubakar Ibrahim, who inaugurated the vaccination at Nyanya Veterinary Clinic,...
The House of Representatives has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), to extend the voter registration by 60 days. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise is scheduled to end on June 30. This followed the adoption of a motion by...
Rep. Ben Igbakpa (PDP-Delta) has moved a constitutional point of order, urging the House to over ride President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto over delay in signing section 84 (8) of the 2022 Electoral Amendment Act into law. Igbakpa moved the motion during plenary on Wednesday in Abuja under matter of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Indications have emerged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, has picked the Hovernor of Kano state, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, as the preferred running mate for the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ahead of the 2023 presidential elections. This revelation was contained in a...