The Emir of Tikau in Yobe, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Ibn-Grema, is dead. The emir’s younger brother, Alhaji Abubakar Talba, confirmed the death in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu on Saturday. Talba, a prince of the Tikau Emirate Council, said that Ibn-Grema died...
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The Police Command in Rivers has explained why it deployed about 30 armed policemen and Armoured Personnel Carriers to the residential quarters of members of the state House of Assembly in Port Harcourt. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deployment has heightened political tension in...
Tinubu Shettima Divine Mandate Initiative (TSDMI) has urged the release of Mr Adejare Adegbenro, Acting Director-General, National Commission for the Co-ordination and Control of the Proliferation of Small Arms, Ammunition and Light Weapons (NATCOM). Adegbenro was said to have been allegedly detained by the security agency since April...
Tragedy struck in Zamfara State as bandits unleashed a wave of violence on farming communities, claiming the lives of at least 30 innocent farmers, including a respected Islamic cleric. The attacks occurred in Gidangoga village, Maradun Local Government Area (LGA), and Bilbis village, Tsafe LGA. Sources told PRNigeria...
The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has assured Nigerians that the fuel crisis experienced in the country will soon be a thing of the past. Bamidele gave this assurance in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the Oil Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, on Friday. According...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Police Command has warned against the use of tinted glasses and covered number plates by private and unauthorized cars in the State. The Command said that it has observe that the practice is now on the increase in the state, pointing...
A global Cybersecurity Specialist, Exclusive Networks Africa (EXN) has said that by 2027, the estimated cost of cybercrime globally would hit $23.82 trillion. The Managing Director, Exclusive Networks Africa, Mr Anton Jacobzs, made this known on Saturday in Lagos at the inauguration of its first physical office...
Rep. Dominic Okafor (APGA-Anambra) has denied receiving 140 million dollars bribe from Mr Nadeem Anjarwalla, the Binance Executive, who escaped from detention. Okafor, who represents the Aguta Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, said this at a news conference on Friday in Abuja. An online media had alleged...
Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani has reiterated his commitment to bringing hope to the weak and vulnerable. Governor Sani made this known in his remarks when he received Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, on a courtesy visit on Friday in Kaduna. He said the visit reminded him...
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has appealed to the party’s elders and stakeholders to intervene in the political crisis rocking Rivers. George, a PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) member, who made the appeal in a statement in Lagos, said...
President Bola Tinubu has said his administration is set to make Nigeria the solar panel and Electric Vehicles battery manufacturing hub in Africa. Tinubu also commended the inauguration of Nigeria’s largest Lithium processing plant in Lafia, Nasarawa State, adding that its an indication of the foreign investment friendly...
National Patron, Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism, Insurgency and Terrorism (BRAVE-IT), Dr Sani Abubakar, has said the fight against security challenges in Nigeria will not end with guns and bullets. Abubakar, a scholar in Military Studies, said this at a Breakfast Meeting on National Security organised by the...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has said its contractors are working tirelessly to erect four new transmission towers along the Jos-Gombe axis. The company said this is to enable it restore power supply to states in the North Eastern part of the country,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – Zamfara State Government has confirmed the outbreak of unknown illness in the state which recorded four deaths and 177 cases so far. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Aisha Anka, confirmed this in a statement issued in Gusau on Friday by the Information Officer...
Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has condemned the attack and abduction of students by gunmen at the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara, Adavi local government area of Kogi State. Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central Senatorial District, said this in a statement in Abuja on Friday. She said the...
Niger State Governor, Umaru Bago has said the numerous road projects across the State are aimed at complementing the agricultural revolution of his administration. Governor Bago stated this at the groundbreaking ceremony of the five km Lemu township road in Gbako Local Government Area of Niger on Friday....
The Women Affairs Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has begun the disbarment of the N10 million grants to 20 women farmers in the FCT. The grant is under the First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Initiative’s (RHI) Women Agricultural Empowerment programme. Mandate Secretary of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Commissioner of Information and Internal Security, Prof. Usman Tar, received in a courtesy visit the newly posted State Director of Security for the Department of State Services (DSS), Borno state command, Adamu Ahmad Umar, fsi. While delivering his remarks, the newly...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested 132 suspected Internet fraudsters (yahoo boys) at different locations in Kwara, Cross River and Osun States Its Spokesman, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. According to him, 64 suspected cybercriminals were arrested...
Ex-Super Eagles International, Edema Fuludu, said he felt the pains the of Ibrahim Babangida’s family over the death of the former Nigerian footballer. The member of the 1993 FIFA U-17 World Cup-winning team for Nigeria died in ghastly motor accident along the Kaduna-Zaria road on Thursday. The News...