About two months to the fourth-year anniversary of the abduction of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram terrorists, her parents have expressed disappointment in the body language of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), towards her freedom. Nathan and Rebecca Sharibu said they were tired of speaking, crying and...
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The Police in Adamawa have denied an online report that Boko Haram insurgents and bandits have attacked the home town of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha. DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, Police Spokesman in state said there was no truth in the report that...
The Federal Government hopes to push its public debt stock to N50.22tn by 2023, with domestic debt at N28.75tn and external debt at N21.47tn. This is according to the projections in the National Development Plan 2021-2025. The Debt Management Office had disclosed that Nigeria’s public debt was N38tn as...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has expressed gratitude to many of his promoters on social media platforms. He, however, pleaded that some promoters should stop comparing his performance with other governors, since all states have their peculiarities. The Governor Zulum’s Special Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- A group of youths, Concerned Mwari Youth Forum, has dismissed as untrue, a letter allegedly written by Yakubu Dogara, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, that there was security threats in the area. The Youths said...
Some Nigerian Movie Directors on Monday proffered solutions through which the problem of piracy could be tackled in the country. They gave different suggestions in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. NAN reports that piracy has been an age-long problem in which miscreants duplicate...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri- The Imo State Police Command on Monday released the former Imo State gubernatorial candidate, Uche Nwosu from its custody. Recalled that Nwosu, a son-in-law to former Governor Rochas Okorocha, was on Sunday whisked away by the security agencies at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Eziama-Obaire, Nkwerre...
The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation, Europe (NIDO-Europe), Italy Chapter, says about 1.5 million out of its 3 million registered members in Italy are affected by scarcity of Nigerian passports. Mr George Omo-Iduhon, Chairman of the chapter said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Area Command, has received items suspected to be tramadol capsules concealed with packages of jumbo size adult diapers in a 40-feet container from officers of the Republic of Benin. A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Hussain Abdulahi, revealed that the items...
There is nothing abnormal in President Muhammadu Buhari’s aides testing positive for COVID-19 because they are humans, the Presidency has said. Mr Femi Adesina, who is the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, stated this during an interview on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics. “What I like...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Abubakar Suleiman, has called on christians in the state to continue building bonds of brotherhood and mutual trust with people of other faiths in order to bring Nigeria out of the quagmire it is currently in....
The Commissioner of Police in Ondo State, Mr Oyeyemi Oyediran, has warned policemen posted to the various expressways in the state during the yuletide to be at alert. CP Oyediran enjoined them against using their duty posts to extort money from motorists and other travellers. He gave the warning...
Eleven people were confirmed dead on Sunday in an accident involving three vehicles on Agulu Lake Bridge by Awka-Ekwulobia Road in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra. Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Anambra, confirming the incident to newsmen in Awka, said that...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has debunked social media reports that there was looting at Next Supermarket, Abuja, which was engulfed by fire on Sunday. Director-General of FEMA, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, made the clarification in a statement issued to NATIONAL ACCORD in Abuja....
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu- A notorious leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN), identified as Godwin Nnamdi has been arrested by security operatives in Nkanu East LGA of Enugu State. The Army spokesman, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, who confirmed the arrest of...
A ritualist, Alfa Tunde Olayiwola, who was in police custody in Akure over alleged possession of a human skull has slumped and died on Saturday. Police spokesman, DSP Olufunmilayo Odunlami, who confirmed the death of the suspect on Sunday, denied that he was beating or tortured to death. Odunlami...
…..Pledges full scale Investigation By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Honourable Minister of the FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has expressed shock and deep sadness over the fire incident that engulfed the Next Cash and Carry Supermarket in Abuja on Sunday, 26th December, 2021. The minister expressed his feelings...
A statement by Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji, cousin of late Oye Ibidapo-Obe said Obasanjo had made commitment to attend, in a letter sent to the family of the late university don who was also , founding Vice Chancellor of Federal University, Ebonyi State and Founding Chairman of Council, First Technical University,...
Mr Saheed Popoola, a member of the Kwara House of Assembly, says insecurity in the country has beclouded the achievements of the All Progressives Congress (APC’s) administration. Popoola made the assertion on Sunday at a News Keg programme of the Correspondents’ Chapel of Kwara Council of the Nigeria Union...
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africans and the global Christian body, particularly Anglican Communion, over passing of Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu at 90. The president’s condolence message was issued by his Spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Sunday in Abuja. According to Buhari, the death...