By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of a second year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, following an allegation that she had blasphemed Muhammad (SAW), the Prophet of Islam. President Buhari, who expressed sadness over the incident in a...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Diversity Bridge Builders Collective (DBBC), a coalition of advocates for true inclusion, zero prejudice and peaceful coexistence, has attributed former Vice President Atiku Abubarka’s inexplicable deletion of a tweet condemning the gruesome murder of a female student in Sokoto, over alleged threat by trolls...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has challenged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to come clean in its fight against corruption and not be selective as they are currently doing. Governor Ortom spoke on Friday, when he received at the Benue Peoples House,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government has expressed optimism that the decisions reached at its tripartite plus meeting with the university-based unions would start yielding fruits next week. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by Mr Olajide Oshundun, Head, Press and Public...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has disbursed N55,000 cash to each 20,000 head of households to protect their improved seeds varieties, with additional N20,000 to enable them buy agro-inputs, agro- chemicals and other needs such as land labour and clearing The organization...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Sokoto State Chapter has expressed dissatisfaction over the gruesome murder of Miss Deborah Emmanuel by angry mobs at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, (SSCOE) on Thursday. CAN in a statement jointly signed by the Sokoto State chapter...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja bade farewell to outgoing members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), saying the departing Ministers would be replaced without delay. The president affirmed that a significant number of them had been sufficiently equipped to aspire to higher elective offices, including the Office...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Reactions has continued to trailed the sudden removal of the Paramount ruler of Calabar South Professor Itam Ogar by the Cross River State Government The Cross River State Government had fired Professor Itam Ogar for alleged involvement in partisan politics. He was alleged to...
Former Vice President and presidential aspirant in People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubarka, has controversially deleted a tweet made on his verified Twitter account, condemning the heinous murder of a female student at the College of Education, Sokoto, Sokoto state. The tweet was made 20 minutes after midnight on Friday,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Mobs suspected to be students of the Shehu Shagari College of Education (SSCOE) Sokoto on Thursday set ablaze one Ms Deborah Yakubu an NCE 2 student of Home Economics Department on alleged blasphemy. Deborah was accused of speaking against the prophet in her response...
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said it would employ both the manual and electronic methods in the transmission of the 2023 elections results. The commission also said there is a possibility of moving sensitive materials from the Central Bank of Nigeria to another location. The chairman of...
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Hebrews 11:6) Do you have something you believe in, or something you stand by? Usually, you would stand by what...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than 469 unlicensed pharmacies and patent medicine shops have been sealed by the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria (PCN) across 18 Local Government Areas of Bauchi State. Some of them were also found selling substandard drugs or engaging in clinical services. This was...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cautioned political parties in Nasarawa State against flouting the new electoral law in the conduct of their primary elections. INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Dr Uthman Ajidagba, gave the advise during an interface with political parties and other stakeholders on...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja met behind closed doors with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the agenda of the meeting between the president and Emefiele could not be ascertained as at the time...
The State Security Service (SSS) has removed a journalist, Lanre Arogundade, from a watchlist in which his name featured for 38 years, the Director General of the Service, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, has said. Mr. Bichi spoke on Wednesday when a delegation from the Nigerian chapter of the International Press Institute...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The Sokoto State Police Command has announced that the suspects in the viral video on Twitter showing how a female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto was stoned and burnt to death over alleged blasphemy, were spotted and will be...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – North East Youth Ambassadors has called on all Nigerians to support Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as the most credible and suitable PDP Presidential flag bearer to salvage the country from the shackles of a depressed economy, insecurity and collapsed educational system, amongst others....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi has announced that plans are underway to commence the conduct of 2022 personnel audit of all basic education institutions in the country. This was even as he lamented that dearth of data on...