By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, has urged the Federal Government to establish additional medical centres in the state to tackle emerging health challenges resulting from over a decade of insurgency. Governor Zulum made the appeal on Thursday during the signing of a...
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Governor Hope Uzodimma, Chairman of the Joint Committee of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and National Council of Traditional Rulers (NCTRN), has pledged the Forum’s support. Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, Uzodimma addressed journalists following the Forum’s meeting on the proposed bill to establish the National Council for Traditional...
By AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna – The Management of Kaduna State University (KASU) has disclosed that school’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its strike action and the varsity has been opened immediately. Addressing a press conference in his office on Thursday, the Vice Chancellor...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Managing Director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Mr. Akintunde Sawyerr, has revealed that the agency may consider extending its student loan scheme to private institutions within the next three years. Sawyerr stated this during a strategic engagement and sensitisation campaign with...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – As the FCT Administration commences preparations for the 2025 Hajj operations, FCT Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, has tasked committee members with dedication, expertise, and unwavering commitment to ensuring the welfare and successful participation of FCT pilgrims. The Minister made this call while...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Kogi State Government has launched a climate-resilient oil palm production training aimed at equipping farmers with modern agricultural techniques to combat the effects of climate change. The workshop held at the Auditorium of the College of Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Kabba, Kogi...
By ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Speaker of the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Rt. Honourable Tukur Bodinga has assured that the State’s 10th assembly under his leadership remained committed to legislations that supports the rights of women and children at all times Bodinga stated this on Thursday when...
The House of Representatives says it will investigate the alleged technical error responsible for the mass failure recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The resolution was sequel to the adoption of a motion of Urgent Matter of Public Importance by Rep. Adewale Adebayo (PDP-Osun) at plenary...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- Police Command in Lagos State has detained five suspects for allegedly stealing and selling a two-week-old baby for N3 million. The command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed this in a statement on Thursday in Lagos. He said that the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) of...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday, threatened to strike out the case against the alleged masterminds of the 2014 Nyanya bombing. Justice Peter Lifu made the threat following the absence of the prosecuting counsel in court for the umpteenth time. The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, dismissed a 950 trillion Pounds suit filed by a businessman, Mr Tunde Omosebi, against former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and others over allegations bordering on breach of fundamental rights. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that the suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/767/2024 and...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, says the military and other security agencies are firmly in control of the situation in the North-east despite the resurgence of insurgents activities in region. “The pockets of attacks should not be a cause for concern as the military and...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, says that boys are often primary targets for recruitment into non-state armed groups and other purveyors of violence. Musa, represented by the Chief of Defence Civil-Military Affairs, Rear Adm. Olusanya Bankole, stated this at the event organised by the Defence...
Ahead of the Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections, a new political movement under the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Nasiru El-Rufai Solidarity Group, also known as Nasiriya on Thursday inaugurated in Sokoto State. The group’s National Coordinator, Alhaji Ibrahim Babuga, who led the inauguration of the new state leadership, described...
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not appear in Turkey on Thursday for proposed direct peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy, who was waiting in Ankara after publicly challenging the Kremlin leader to face-to-face negotiations to end their three-year-old war, was left without a counterpart. In Putin’s absence,...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that no progress would be made on the Ukraine peace process until he meets directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I am not disappointed in anything. I know nothing about a delegation. I haven’t even checked,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Thursday announced that it would perform annual maintenance on a 60MVA, 132/33KV transformer at the Benin transmission substation on Friday, between 10a.m. and 6p.m. A statement in Benin on Thursday, by Ndidi Mbah, GM, Public Affairs, TCN in Benin, said the scheduled...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court has ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to release a Nigerian businessman, Moses Abiodun, who has been in detention since 2009 without trial. The court on Thursday, also ordered the Nigerian Government to pay N20 million compensation to the victim...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate eased to 23.71 per cent in April 2025. The NBS disclosed this in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for April 2025, which was released in Abuja on Thursday. According to the report, the headline inflation...