The presidency says negotiations are ongoing to rescue those abducted on the Kaduna-Abuja rail line earlier in the year. Presidential aide Garba Shehu said this on Friday while reacting to the suspension of the resumption of operations on the rail track. “Of course, we are aware that there has...
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Presidential aide Garba Shehu has refuted claims that his principal pays less attention to victims of attacks in the country. He spoke on Friday while responding to the debates generated following President Muhammadu Buhari’s condolence visit to the United Arab Emirates over the death of the country’s president Sheikh...
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Friday suspended the resumption of train services on the Abuja-Kaduna route amid pressure from families of victims abducted by terrorists. Terrorists had on March 28 used explosives to kill nine passengers and injured others while kidnapping about 50 victims, the NRC suspended operations...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr Semiu Adeyemi Adeniran as the substantive Statistician-General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with immediate effect. This is according to a statement issued on Friday by The...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on Friday said President Mohamadu Buhari would commission for the first time the controversial 2nd Niger Bridge in Anambra State, South East Nigeria. Senator Lawan, a leading presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC), disclosed this...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) through its Special Public Works Department Friday flagged off the orientation for 30 participants of the Enviropreneurship Development Scheme (EDS) in Sokoto State. Flagging off the EDS, the State Coordinator of NDE, Mrs Eunice Danmallam implored participants to...
Oba Kayode Adenekan Afolabi, the Alapomu of Apomu has officially commissioned the new Federal Road Safety Corps Outpost Command in Apomu. The event which took place on May 18 in Apomu.Oba Afolabi was very excited with the ground breaking achievement in the kingdom. He said Apomu Township has felt...
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Otunba Adebayo, on Friday warned that traders who were engaging in malpractices with respect to weighing and measuring of goods, products and commodities risked prosecution. Adebayo, who stated this at a news conference in Abeokuta on Friday to commemorate the 2022...
) A Lagos High Court on Friday sentenced a Dane, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his Nigerian wife and daughter. Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile convicted Nielsen, 54, on two counts of murder brought against him by Lagos State Government. The judge sentenced Nielsen to death by hanging on...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was on Friday welcome to Imo State by a large crowd of supporters of All Progressives Congress. The Vice President is in Imo to continue his consultations with APC delegates in the State ahead of the party’s Convention holding on May 29, 2022. Watch video...
The Imo State Police Command has arrested and paraded a popular Nollywood actor, Hycent Azunna Zealot as a member of the Eastern Security Network (ESN). Hycent Azunna Zealot, better known as King Zealot, is a producer, actor and singer. He has featured in a number of Nigerian movies. The Imo...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described as false and outlandish news report that he promised to provide hotel accommodation for more than 7,000 All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates across the country during the party’s presidential primary election.” Professor Osinbajo debunked the report in a...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The maiden Roundtable on National Issues, kicked off in Abuja on Thursday, with participants calling on Nigerian youths to put their population and intellect into use in confronting their problems and those of the nation. An initiative of the Development Specs Academy (DSA), the...
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, on Friday lifted a curfew imposed on Sokoto metropolis over the unrest that followed the killing of Deborah Samuel. The Governor also banned all forms of procession in the state indefinitely. Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, was lynched by a...
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo says the development of the Benin River Port will guarantee the diversification of the nation’s economy from oil into to non-oil sector such as agriculture and agro-allied businesses. This is contained in a statement by the governor’s Special Adviser on Special Media, Mr Crusoe...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Thugs and supporters of Senator Ali Ndume, who is representing Borno South Senatorial District at the National Assembly clashed in Biu town of Biu LGA of the State during an arranged Borno South APC delegates meeting with an APC Presidential Aspirant, Chief Rotimi Amaechi...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said he is “mad” about Nigeria and he has no apology for being passionate about Africa’s most populous nation. He stated this while playing host to presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Muhammed Hayatudeen, at his presidential library home in Abeokuta,...
Minister of Police Affairs Maigari Dingyadi says the newly promoted former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, will be prosecuted if eventually indicted by the probe panel chaired by retd. Justice Ayo Salami. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Magu had appeared...
The Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Project (HYPREP) has called on residents of Ogoniland in Rivers to support the ongoing execution of six water projects in the area. HYPREP’s Project Coordinator, Ferdinand Giadom, made the call in Alesa Eleme, Rivers, during his inspection tour of the water project sites on...