By MARY RONKE, Minna – At least seven persons have died on Sunday in a boat mishap at Zhigiri village, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The spokesperson of Coalition of Shiroro Associations (COSA) disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Minna. Saba, who...
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The President’s decision to withhold assent from the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 has come under scrutiny from media and political circles. This is quite correct because it is a decision that will impact all Nigerians. The President’s Office has decided therefore to issue an official statement to make...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has commended the Nigerian military for promoting 19 gallant officers of the Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Hadin Kai Theater from the ranks of colonel to Brigadier General. Governor Zulum made the commendation on Tuesday at the decoration ceremony...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has described as shocking and devastating, news of the death of Lady Abiola Wayas in a London hospital, UK., barely a month after her husband and former Senate President, Dr. Joseph Wayas passed away. Lamenting the death in a...
Sen. Nicholas Tofowomo, representing Ondo South Senatorial District in the Senate, has commended the new Commissioner of Police in Ondo State, Mr Oyeyemi Oyediran, for removing the illegal checkpoints causing gridlock on Sagamu-Ore-Benin expressway. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oyediran and his team had, last week,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has called for review of Fire Service Act of 1963 to meet up with contemporary realities. According to a statement issued on Tuesday, the Director-General of FEMA, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, said the act had become obsolete, thus...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned the public against dealings with FinAfrica Investment Ltd and Poyoyo Investment. A circular by the management of SEC and published on the commission’s website said the activities of the companies were not registered by it. The commission described the business of...
Frontline International Journalist, Tony Iyare has won the Lifetime Media Icons Award for “pacesetting contribution and growth of media industry in Nigeria”. He was named along with other outstanding Journalists – Ovation Publisher, Dele Momodu, Publisher, Africa Today, Kayode Soyinka and Ladi Ayodeji, managing director, BMG Promotions haven garnered...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – All candidates, clients and other members of the public below the age of 18years are not required to produce any vaccination card before being allowed access to our facilities. In a statement by the board spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, this category of persons are...
The Edo State Police Command says it is in search of a man said to have killed his 29-year-old girlfriend in Iguadolo community for suspected ritual. In a statement on Tuesday, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Kontongs Bello, identified the suspect as Osas and the victim...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Secretary of the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Chief Ayo Opadokun, has advised Nigerians not to dissipate energy on the Electoral Act but to focus on the need to have a system that works for all. Chief Opadokun, who said that the system...
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...
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...