The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has demobilised 54 “graduates” that were illegally mobilised for youth service by the University of Calabar. The Director-General, NYSCnssss, Brig.-Gen. Yusha’u Ahmed said this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by the Director, Information and Public Relations, Mr Eddy Megwa. According...
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Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni has said that the 167 foreign-trained graduates sponsored by his administration would bolster the state’s health and other critical sectors. This is contained in a statement by Buni’s Director-General, Press and Media Affairs, Mamman Mohammed in Damaturu on Saturday. The News Agency...
Low voter turnout has characterised the ongoing local government election in Bauchi State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. NAN correspondents, who monitored the exercise in Bauchi, Dass and Tafawa Balewa LGAs report that voting commenced in most polling centres at about 11:00 am, due to...
The Presidency is aware of failed attempts by Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd., a Chinese company, to take over offshore assets of Nigeria through subterfuge. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, in a statement, said Zhongshan misled the Judicial Court in Paris into attaching...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto- Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu has appealed to the people of the state to assist relevant security agencies with useful information as the only way of defeating bad eggs from amongst their communities. Governor Aliyu, who made the appeal in Gudu Local Government,...
BY ANKELI EMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu has visited Dundaye community where a boat mishap claimed the lives of additional five persons over the weekend. During the visit on Wednesday, the governor announced a donation of N30 million to the affected families. Under the...
By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – The New Comptroller General of Kogi State Vigilante Service, Cdr. AbdulRahman Mariam Adinoyi (Rtd). has called for inter-agency collaboration in the fight against criminal elements and bring crime wave to the barest minimum in the state In a statement by Saka Salihu, Head...
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) chapter is demanding the immediate release of a kidnapped colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Popoola, a medical doctor at National Eye Centre, Kaduna, was abducted with her husband and...
Renowned Professor of History and African Studies, Toyin Falola, has said President Bola Tinubu led government has failed to address the major triggers for the #EndBadGovernance protests that reverberated in most states in Nigeria earlier in August. The septuagenarian professor at the University of Texas was...
Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea have indicated the desire to deepen economic cooperation to advance their common interests. President Bola Tinubu and President Obiang Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea disclosed this on Friday in a statement jointly signed by Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar and his counterpart...
The Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone Ltd., Prof. Ibrahim Adeyanju, says the company tackled about 27 million cyber attacks on its facilities during the 2023 General Elections. Adeyanju made this known, when the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Malam Jibrin Baba-Ndace, paid him a courtesy visit on Friday...
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has said it would clamp down and withdraw the licence of erring marketers aiding peddling of petroleum products particularly Premium Motor Spirit in jerry cans. The NMDPRA made this known on Friday after an indoor stakeholders’ meeting involving...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos- In an effort to ease the persistent hardship faced by his constituents, Hon. Daniel Asama, the member representing Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency, has launched a significant relief distribution aimed at supporting displaced persons within his constituency. The program, which was officially flagged off recently,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has promised to sustain its investment in Nigerian Army institutions. Executive Secretary of the Fund, Arc. Sonny Echono stated this when he led top management of TETFund on a courtesy call on the Chief of Defence Staff,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Edo has fixed Aug. 22 to 30 for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in the state. Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity, INECp, Timidi Wariowei, confirmed this in a statement on Friday in Benin. Wariowei said that a...
Gunmen kidnap Anambra commissioner, wife, kill aide en route to Soludo’s daughter’s wedding in Abuja
Gunmen kidnap Anambra commissioner, wife, kill aide en route to Soludo’s daughter’s wedding in Abuja
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Anambra State Commissioner for Youths Development, Patrick Aghamba, and his wife. Sources said an aide of the commissioner, whose name was given as Kpajie ABK Offiah, an Onitsha youth and a stalwart of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), who...
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has said his critics once doubted his capacity to drive infrastructure development in the state. Governor Adeleke made the remark while playing host to members of the Nigerian Society of Engineers(NSE), led by its National President, Margret Oguntala, on Friday in Osogbo. The...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Farmers in Benue State who are experiencing serious drought for a number of weeks have started lamenting the devastating effect of the drought. Already food and cash crops cultivated are fast weathering away over the prolonged absence of rain in the farming...
Former Senate President, David Mark and his colleague, Sen. Tunde Ogbeha, on Friday saluted former military President Gen. Ibrahim Badamase Babangida (IBB) on his 83rd birthday. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Paul Mumeh, Mark`s Media Adviser on Friday in Kano. The duo praised IBB’s...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has launched the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA)-Healthcare Expansion Programme to improve the health and social well-being of Nigerians, drive economic development, and position Nigeria as a healthcare hub within Africa. The NSIA is also expected to retrain 120,000 frontline health...