ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than 575 commercial sex workers in Bauchi State are to be trained and empowered with various skills to make them self-reliant and encourage them to stop prostitution. Speaking at the flag-off of the training which held at Bayangari in Bauchi on Monday, the...
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BY NANA AISHA, Jalingo – Some concerned Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) committed to social cohesion and violence prevention, have called on the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and The Muslim Council of Nigeria (MCN) to promote peace and unity in Taraba State. The call followed the recent tirades between...
The Federal Government says it plans to inaugurate a national sensitisation campaign against ritual murders soon. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said this on Monday in Abuja when he paid official visit to the headquarters of Daily Trust Newspaper. According to him, the government is...
Detained Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, has dragged the Federal Government before a Federal High Court in Abuja challenging his continued detention by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, Kyari who is currently on suspension from the Nigerian Police Force is seeking an...
The United Kingdom’s Minister for Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Vicky Ford is set for a maiden visit to Nigeria. This was disclosed in a statement by the British High Commission in Nigeria on Sunday. The British High Commission explained that the visit will take forward efforts by...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – A 29-year-old petrol tank installer identified as Ahmed has suffocated and died while working on a petrol tank at a filling station along Offa garage road in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. It was learnt that the sad incident occurred opposite Adisco office, Ajase-Ipo...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has urged the youth in the state not to be intimidated by the circumstances of their birth. Speaking at the U.J.Esuene Stadium over the weekend during a Youth Summit organised by APC Youth in the state, Governor Ayade also...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Benin Republic, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Tukur Buratai (rtd), on Sunday, has distanced himself from contesting for the 2023 Presidential race. Recalled that a group known as the All Progressives Congress (APC) Door-to-door...
The residents of Benin City have come out to watch a suspected witch who landed on a very high cable tension. In a video that has gone viral, residents of Benin City were seen gathered together while watching a person on a very high tension cable. The individual on the tension...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIB-N) on Sunday said no fewer than 2,038 persons have died in air accidents in Nigeria in 53 years between 1969 and 2002. The Bureau commissioner, Mr Akin Olateru, gave the statistics during a press briefing to mark The 2022...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in collaboration with the Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) have secured the release of 15 Nigerian girls trafficked to Mali. The girls, whom one of them is having a three-year old boy and two pregnant,...
By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – The Human & Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), has given Mr. Godwin Emefiele a 14-day ultimatum to resign from his position as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),and pursue his political ambition (if he is interested) or disassociate himself publicly from...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi says the commission has concluded plans to conduct an internationally accepted national assessment. The Executive Secretary disclosed this at a 5 day workshop for the development of test items for 2022 National Assessment...
By JOHN ONAH Abuja – The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello has expressed the FCT Administration’s readiness to partner with the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) for the deployment of 5G broadband in the territory. Malam Bello stated this when he received a delegation of the NCC led by its...
Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have foiled an attempt by a syndicate to push into circulation fake $4.7 million or about N2.7 billion. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – As the fight against criminality intensifies in Benue State, troops from Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, on Saturday made a huge breakthrough when they rescued 8 persons from kidnappers den. Mr Nathaniel Ikyur, Chief Press Secretary to the governor, said in a statement on Sunday,...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Enugu State Government has declared Wednesday, Feb. 23, as public holiday to facilitate residents’ “fully and active’’ participation in the state’s local government elections. The Special Adviser to the governor on Information, Mr Steve Oruruo, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the 36 state governors to “immediately redirect public funds budgeted to pay ex-governors undeserved pensions and other retirement benefits, and for ‘security votes’, and to use some of the savings to pay the counterpart funds that...
BY EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General LEO Irabor, has solicited sustainable collaboration among all stakeholders in the value chain of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. CDS Irabor made this remark in Abuja on Friday during a meeting with the Governors of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has directed the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to submit details of the number of households affected in IDP camp fire incident for proper intervention by the state government. Governor Babagana Zulum gave the directives when he visited Muna Elbadawy IDP...