BY EMEKA CHIKWE, Yenegoa – The Bayelsa State Police Command on Friday said its Anti-kidnapping unit have arrested a gun-running gang in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. The police spokesman, Asimin Butswat, who disclosed this in a statement, said its operatives acting on a tip-off on...
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Some residents of Sokoto State will on Saturday embark on a “mass” protest against the arrest of two people suspected to be involved in the killing of a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, identified as Deborah Samuel, for alleged blasphemy. It would be recalled that Deborah...
Medical experts in Lagos on Friday said pregnancy was achievable in women with lupus. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that lupus is a chronic, auto-immune disease that affects more women than men. This was disclosed at a panel discussion at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), in...
INEC has reiterated its resolve to continue to deepen the use of technology to improve on the conduct of credible elections. Its National Commissioner and Chairperson, Planning and Monitoring Committee, Prof. Rhoda Gumus, restated this when she received a delegation from the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) in Abuja....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched a discreet investigation into the finances of the 18 political parties in the country and their presidential aspirants. This followed the humongous fees paid for expression of interest and nomination forms by aspirants vying for various elective offices in the...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on Friday in Benin blamed increasing rate of drug abuse in the state on the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities’ (ASUU) strike. Reviewing the state’s security situation for the months of February, March and April, Gov. Obaseki said Edo recorded 19 drug abuse...
The Lagos State Police Command said that the publication, with the caption “Girl captured in viral sex video with dog dies of Infection”, is fake. The Command’s Spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed the fake news in a statement on Friday in Lagos. “The attention of the Lagos State Police...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the killing of a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Deborah Samuel, over an allegation of blasphemy as deeply distressing. Osinbajo spoke with newsmen on Friday at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, shortly on arrival from...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has condoled the former Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Solomon Ewuga over the death of his pilot daughter, Miss Adzuayi Ewuga. Adzuayi was the Pilot of the ill fated Twin Otter Aircraft on Thursday in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said tracking of campaign finances of political parties by the commission was not meant to witch hunt any individual or group. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun, Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji stated this on Friday in Osogbo, during a sensitisation workshop for...
Seven winning short films and six special mentions from the jury highlight strong health stories illustrating global health issues More than 1000 film makers from over 110 countries have submitted short films for the 3rd edition of the WHO Health for All Film Festival (HAFF), on themes ranging from...
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...
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,...