By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed the nation’s condolences to the family of the five-year-old school girl Hanifa Abubakar whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in Kano after near two months of fruitless search. Tge President condolence message was contained in a...
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Gunmen have kidnapped the Commissioner for Industry, Trade, and Investment in Bayelsa State, Federal Otokito. Police authorities in the state confirmed Otokito’s abduction on Friday in a statement, barely a day after the incident took place. The Police Public Relations Officer in Bayelsa, Asinim Butswat, revealed that the commissioner...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is proposing a $50 billion trust fund for Nigeria and other low and vulnerable middle-income countries. In a blog post published on Thursday, it explained that the fund was targeted at helping countries in that category to build resilience and sustainability. “A proposed $50-billion...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said the commission has identified some flash points ahead of FCT council elections. To this end, the commission has concluded arrangements to invite the FCT Commissioner of Police for dialogue on how...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called on the international community to support Africa’s efforts in combatting climate change, containing the COVID-19 pandemic, fighting terrorism, as well as curbing poverty. Osinbajo, who raised these concerns on Friday in his virtual address to the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2022, said that...
The Kano State Government has ordered the immediate closure of a private school, Noble Kids Academy, in Nassarawa Local Government Area of the state, where abductors of a pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, were said to have killed and buried her remains. Five-year-old Hanifa was abducted late last year and one...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The North-East legislators under the All Progressives Congress (APC), have passed a vote of confidence on the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee under the leadership of the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni. The lawmakers passed the vote during a special meeting held at the...
Pubs, popularly called beer parlour, is a thriving business in Nigeria which attracts patronage from a huge number of clients on a daily basis. A trip to some beer parlours in Lagos by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday revealed that men are the major customers when...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has traced the prevailing calm in Cross River to Governor Ben Ayade’s relentless support to the state’s police command. The IGP who spoke yesterday at the State Executive Council Chamber of the Governor’s Office, Calabar, during a courtesy...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – Goods worth several millions of naira were on Friday destroyed during a fire incident that occurred at the Potiskum grain main market in Yobe State. Residents told our correspondent on phone that the fire began as early as around 3:00 am which attracted the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, never denied being the leader of the outlawed organisation while taking his plea at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has said. Ejiofor said the clarification became...
The Students Union Government (SUG) at the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, has urged politicians not to drag students into their political calumny and machinations in the state. The President of the union in the university, Mohammed Mohammad, said in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday while briefing newsmen, that some politicians...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has dismissed claims that the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) issued to Nigerian voters are fake and have expired. A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, had said that PVCs in the possession of citizens have expired although...
Former Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar on Thursday raised concerns over the removal of fuel subsidy. General Abdulsalami, who was speaking at the 19th Daily Trust Summit in Abuja, said the country is facing challenges on multiple fronts and a fuel subsidy removal will only compound the situation. The...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has sent her heartfelt condolences to President Muhammadu Buhari, over the death of the National Coordinator Buhari Campaign Organisation, Alhaji Danladi Pasali. She described the death of the All Progressives Party stalwart which...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Thursday gave assent to an amendment to the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law of the State 2017 to provide stiffer penalties to offenders. By the amendment, the owner of an impounded cow, pig, sheep or goat...
The President, African Bar Association (ABA), Mr Hannibal Uwaifo, says that African lawyers will not cooperate with International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Nigerian Army for war crime against terrorists. Uwaifo stated this when he led members of the council of ABA on courtesy visit to the Chief of...
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged missing of firearms and ammunition belonging to the police. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Rep Toby Okechukwu, the Deputy Minority Leader on Thursday at plenary. Moving the motion, Okechukwu said that 178,459...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-Cares), which will be implemented with a 750-million-dollar World Bank facility. The vice president performed the inauguration on Thursday as prelude to National Economic Council (NEC) meeting which he chaired at the State House Banquet...
BY DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the 800-metre long flyover in Kawo, Kaduna State, recounting how he narrowly escaped a targeted bomb attack in the vicinity in 2014. Reminiscing on the unfortunate incident, which claimed the lives of many innocent Nigerians, the President said...