By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, alongside Senator Kashim Shettima, Borno’s First Lady, Dr. Falmata Zulum, and other National Assembly members topped the state’s high profile delegation at the fifth anniversary of the North-East Children’s Trust, (NECT) Learning Centre, initiated by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo....
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The liver is one of the most vital organs of the body. It plays a crucial role in numerous physiological processes including digestion, metabolism and blood detoxification. Liver fitness is something that we often overlook when we have to compromise with our lifestyle and food habits.Since the liver plays...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, says Nigerian government has gone tough on sexual offenders by convicting 110 offenders. Tallen told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that the federal government is committed to the implementation of the Sex Offender Register to protect girls...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Operatives of the Lagos and Enugu Zonal Commands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested 33 internet fraud suspects popularly known as “Yahoo boys” in separate sting operations. The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this in a statement issued on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In line with the FCT 2019 Parks Policy, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, has performed the ground breaking ceremony of the beautification and landscaping of the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Express Way in collaboration with property developers along the road. Performing the ceremony on behalf...
The total number of people killed by bandits in Kaura LGA of Kaduna State during a series of attacks on Sunday has risen to 34. This toll was confirmed by the Kaduna State Government on Tuesday. Chairman of Kaura local government council, Matthias Siman, had pegged the figure at...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Lagos praised the efforts of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, towards making the Lekki Deep Sea Port a reality. The president also directed the Minister to consult and bring up a memorandum to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has revealed that the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has in the last six months, constructed 192 rural water supply schemes of various types across the six area councils as part of measure to improve the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has set up a team of experts to carry out thorough auditing of the activities of operators in the upstream petroleum industry in the last two years, to ascertain the actual volume of crude oil stolen by...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Very few African Union member states have been projected to achieve universal access to safely managed drinking water, safely managed sanitation or basic hygiene services by 2030. In other to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets on water, sanitation and hygiene, Africa will...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – MultiChoice Nigeria has announced an increased in the prices of DStv and GOtv packages. The company in a statement issued on Tuesday, attributed the hike in price to the rising cost of inflation and business operations. “In light of the rising costs of inflation...
The Senate, will, on Wednesday, debate the ruling of a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia, which nullified the controversial Section 84 (12) of the amended Electoral Act. This followed a point of order raised by Sen. George Sekibo (PDP-Rivers) during plenary on Tuesday. The section requires ministers,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) has arrested four suspects who specialized in the production of fake currency notes both naira and CFA. Parading the suspects on Tuesday, the Sokoto State NSCDC Commandant, Muhammad Saleh Dada named...
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Lagos on a working visit to commission and inspect some projects in the state. His aircraft touched down at about 10am on Tuesday at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The President was welcomed to the state by Governor Babajide...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Following the Federal High Court judgement in Abuja, which sacked 20 lawmakers from Cross River State who defected from PDP to APC, the Cross River State House Of Assembly has been sealed, early this morning and taken over by combined security forces. NATIONAL ACCORD...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Monday gave a total sum of N62,750,000 to 846 elders and labourers providing services at Bolori Stores, a popular area in Maiduguri where trailers offload and move variety of wholesale food and non-food products from Borno to other...
There was drama at Bwera Parish headquarters in Kyeizooba Sub-county, Igara East Constituency in Bushenyi District (of Uganda) after residents reportedly nabbed a 59-year-old woman having sex with an 18-year-old man. Ms Kedesi Katsigaire, a resident of Nyambirizi Village, Bwera Parish in Kyeizooba Sub-county, had previously been accused of...
Some indigenes of Ile-Ife in Osun State on Monday allegedly invaded the Obafemi Awolowo University campus armed with charms and other fetish objects. The indigenes were protesting against the appointment of non-indigene as the institution’s Vice-Chancellor. The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the protesting Ife indigenes closed the...
The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 has lifted per travel testing requirements for COVID-19 vaccinated Nigerians and visitors. Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman PSC on COVID-19, on Monday in Abuja, said that the revised International Travel Protocols, would take effect from...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has assured his supporters that there is nothing to worry about over the Federal High Court ruling in Abuja which struck out the stay of execution motion against his removal from office. Umahi gave the assurance on Monday when he addressed the All Progressives...