Fire has razed a market in the popular Trademore Estate, located along Umar Musa Yar’Adua/Airport Road in Abuja, leaving residents in shock. The fire which allegedly started in the early hours of Monday, December 2, followed when the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company restored power. The cause of the fire...
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has assured Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, not to be disturbed by the political crisis rocking the state. Jonathan spoke at an event in the Nihi Community in the Etche Local Government Area of the State on Sunday. He explained that Fubara would eventually emerge...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has thanked former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retired) for the role he played in his release from prison. Obasanjo was one of those imprisoned by the regime of the late military dictator, General Sani Abacha over an alleged coup plot to overthrow Abacha....
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Sunday, explained why the northern governors advised President Bola Tinubu to hold on before pushing the controversial tax reform bills. The governor who appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said the Northern Governors Forum only needs time for consultation....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Police operatives attached to the Borno State Command repelled a group of armed and dreaded terrorists, who attacked the Jakana Divisional Police Headquarters, Borno State, on November 28, 2024. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said this in a statement on Sunday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, is set to construct an intra-city rail network to connect Maiduguri and its environs. This is the first of such project by any of Nigeria’s 19 northern state governments. The first phase of the project will commence with...
Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani has began the implementation of the National Minimum Wage Act in the state, an official stated on Sunday in Kaduna. Sani’s Chief Press Secretary, Malam Ibraheem Musa, in a statement said it was a misrepresentation for the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in the state...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri– Global Village Healthcare Initiative (GHIV) in Africa, a humanitarian organization operating in Borno and Yobe States on nutrition, education, gender, persons with disabilities, children, free training on Humanitarian services, women and girls at the grassroots level has celebrated its 10 years of activities on Saturday...
By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – The umbrella organization of civil society groups in Kogi state, Kogi NGOs Network, (KONGONET), has called on the state government to invest massively in agriculture to guarantee food security for the citizens, saying that agriculture remains the backbone of Kogi State’s economy and presents...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, has pledged his leadership readiness and commitment to enact more good laws and pass resolutions that would have direct bearing on the lives of the people of the State. Hon Jatau, made the pledge...
President Bola Tinubu will leave France on Monday for Cape Town, South Africa, to co-chair the 11th session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) alongside President Cyril Ramaphosa. The BNC, scheduled for Dec. 3, will be preceded by a ministerial meeting on Dec. 2, at the South African...
A leader of Osogbo Progressive Union (OPU), Osogbo in Osun, Dr Yemi Oladimeji, has decried the inability of the town to produce a governor since the creation of the state 33 years ago. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that OPU is the umbrella body of all Osogbo...
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun, Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has said that the cost of food items in the country was becoming worrisome and unaffordable for the masses. Oyintiloye, a member of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), said this while speaking with newsmen...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Federal Government has resolved to establish digital technology hubs in 200 rural communities across the six geopolitical zones in the country as part of its first implementation phase. The Special Assistant to the President on ICT Development and Digital Innovation, Mr Tokoni Igoin,...
The number of accidents recorded on Third Mainland Bridge since its repair is unprecedented and caused by impatience and indiscipline. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mrs Olukorede Kesha, expressed the worry in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. Kesha...
The Ondo chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has assured government workers in the state of the payment of new minimum wage in November salary. Acting Chairman of the NLC, Mr Ademola Olapade, gave the assurance on Sunday in Akure while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, joined Vice President Kashim Shettima, Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, and other prominent personalities to attend the closing ceremony of this year’s African Military Games, AMGA24, held in Abuja. The closing ceremony was held on Saturday at the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Director General, Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr. Mohammad Saidu Barkindo, has said SEMA spent more than a week at Ngala to conclude distribution of food items to about 14,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and those in host communities, who were affected...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri– The Executive Chairman of Shani Local Government Area, Hon. Hassan Labaki has said that his people are solidly behind their Senator Mohammed Ndume and Governor Babagana Zulum for their disposition over the controversial Tax Reform Bills sent to the national assembly which has passed second...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, on Tuesday 26th November intercepted two consignments containing cocaine and pentazocine injection going to the United Kingdom via a courier company in Lagos. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi...