Some Muslim faithful in Kaduna State have lamented the high cost of rams used as sacrifice for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration around the globe. The ram sacrifice is an act of worship practiced by the Muslims to emulate Prophet Abraham (AS) who dreamt that God ordered him to sacrifice...
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By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has called for responsible management of funds allocated to host Communities Development Trusts (HCDT) in the Niger Delta. The governor spoke on Tuesday at an event to unveil three additional HDCTs by The Shell Petroleum Development Company of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government of Nigeria has reconstituted the governing councils and boards of 111 federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education. President Bola Tinubu approved the reconstitution of the governing councils and boards to ensure the effective management of Nigerian tertiary institutions. It...
President Bola Tinubu has called for stronger collaboration between Nigeria’s law enforcement agencies and the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in the fight against cybercrime, terrorism, and other related crimes. The FBI is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States of America, and...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have brokered a renewed strategic alliance towards tackling the menace of internet crimes and other waves of emerging and old crimes that are of mutual interest to Nigeria and the...
The controversies and series of serious allegations hanging on the neck of the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Ibrahim Lamuwa, have taken a different dimension. Recall that the Perm Sec had been in the eye of the storm for days over allegations of sexual...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, has lamented that the state was hit by the Japa with a deficit of 30,000 medical professionals. Mr Abayomi said the state is constrained by the increasing dearth of doctors in the country as the trend of health professionals fleeing...
Bingham University, located in Karu in Nasarawa State, has recently inducted 80 Doctors into the medical profession, bringing the total number of medical doctors produced by the institution to 629 since its inception. During the induction ceremony held in Jos, the Plateau State Capital, the Vice Chancellor of...
The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adeniyi has said the service intercepted large consignments of illicit drugs including cannabis indica, prohibited codeine and other illicit drugs from Canada and India. Mr Adeniyi made this known to newsmen in Lagos on Friday, saying that the intercepted drugs were...
Online streaming platform, Spotify, says Nigeria, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom and Germany are the top five countries that have streamed Amapiano music in the last 10 years. Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s Head of Music in Sub Saharan Africa, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in commemoration...
A Federal High Court in Kano, on Friday, fined the Kano State government the sum of ₦10m, as compensation for breaching the fundamental human rights of the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero. The Presiding Judge, Justice Amobeda, issued this order while delivering judgment in the case...
A A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, discharged the executive of Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan, from the alleged tax evasion charge preferred against the company by Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, discharged and struck out Gambaryan’s name from the four-count...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Federal Government has declared Monday 17th, and Tuesday 18th June 2024 as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-ul-Adha celebration. Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Aishetu Gogo Ndayako, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Dr. Ndayako said the Minister...
Eid-el-Kabir: Don’t grieve if you can’t afford ram, cleric urges Nigerians An Islamic cleric, Dr Tajudeen Adebayo, says Muslims who cannot afford ram for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration due to economic hardship should not grieve but hope for a better future. Mr Adebayo, the Chief Imam of the Falomo Central...
The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed says breathalysers have been deployed to motor parks and highways to check drunk driving. Mr Mohammed, while addressing newsmen on Friday in Abuja, said the the deployment was in collaboration with the Beer Sectorial Group, BSG. He said...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu would depart Abuja for Lagos state on Friday ahead of the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. This is contained in a statement by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President, Media and Publicity, in Abuja. The statement said the President would observe Eid-el-Kabir in...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ilorin Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested eighteen suspects for offences bordering on illegal mining activities. The EFCC in a post on its X handle on Friday said 13 truckloads with assorted solid minerals suspected to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Despite the efforts put in place by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to reduce Carnage’s on the nation’s highways, the FRSC Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed has expressed displeasure over the alarming rate of recklessness of drivers who have continued to contravene established traffic...
The House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence has asked the Federal Government to purchase new aircraft for President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima. The committee’s recommendation is contained in a report released after its investigation into the status of the aircraft in the presidential...
GIABA, an inter-governmental action group against money laundering in West Africa, has said Nigeria recorded significant achievements in its war against money laundering and terrorism financing in 2023. GIABA said this in its 2023 annual report unveiled for ambassadors of member states, technical and financial partners on Thursday...