Executive Director/CEO of National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), Dr Shaibu Husseini, has said the Federal Government has approved the prohibition of money rituals and glamourising of vices in Nigerian films. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Husseini disclosed this at a National Stakeholders Engagement...
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The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, says the first anniversary of President Bola Tinubu led administration would be low-key. Idris made this known at the Ministerial Press Briefing on Wednesday in Abuja. According to him, the move is in line with Tinubu’s desire to...
The arraignment of Binance Holdings Limited and its executive, Tigran Gambaryan, by Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), on Wednesday, suffered a setback at a Federal High Court, Abuja. The matter, which was scheduled for arraignment before Justice Emeka Nwite, could not proceed due to the absence of Gambaryan...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has given directive for the immediate commencement of work at the proposed 1000 units housing estate under the Renewed Hope Housing Project in the state. Governor Ododo disclosed this while playing host to the Management of the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – As the world commemorates the 2024 World Family Doctors’ Day, the FCT Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmou , has called on Nigerians to adopt a healthy living condition. The Minister also urged Nigerians to collectively invest more in afforestation and discourage deforestation,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Police Command has confirmed the killing of a Superintendent of Police (SP) Pius Sunday, who was the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Marte Divisional Headquarters, Marte. SP Sunday was killed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists while responding to a distress call on...
The Kremlin on Wednesday criticised European Union plans to use income from frozen Russian assets to provide military aid to Ukraine as “expropriation.” EU ministers earlier on Tuesday gave final approval to use the proceeds of Russian assets frozen in the EU to help Ukraine. The agreement concerns...
A FCT High Court in Zuba, on Wednesday dismissed the application filed by the Medical Director, Alliance Hospital, Dr Christopher Otabor asking for variation of his bail conditions. Justice Kezziah Ogbonnaya held that granting the application would not be in the interest of justice adding that Otabor’s wife...
U.S. President Joe Biden has accused his predecessor and likely election opponent Donald Trump of using Nazi rhetoric following the publication of a video referencing a “unified Reich.’’ Trump is using “Hitler’s language’’. That’s not America’s, Biden said in a campaign video released. In the short clip, the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Manhood Yakubu has charged the State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs), to stop the coronation of candidates and instead conduct proper elections in their states. Manhood stated this on Wednesday in Abuja when he received the...
A murder investigation has been launched into the parents of a 3-year-old child who died of starvation in Austria. Police in the western Austrian state of Tyrol said on Wednesday that emergency services were informed of the child’s death in the district of Kufstein, near the border to...
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to mandate public healthcare institutions to provide free medical treatment for pregnant women during and after delivery. The call was sequel to the adoption of a motion by Rep. Mohammed Shehu (PDP-Bauchi) at plenary...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – North East Development Commission (NEDC) in collaboration with the federal government is to award contract for the resuscitation of the grounded power house and its accessories for revitalization of irrigation activities in the Chad basin that have been stopped by insecurity and destruction...
Millions of mourners flocked to a funeral procession in Tehran on Wednesday after the death of Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter accident, footage from local media showed. The broadcaster showed the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leading a prayer ceremony in front of the victim’s...
A male driver of a school bus died on Wednesday, with several children injured, after the vehicle hit a tree in the Australian state of Victoria. Police said in a statement that emergency services are currently working on the site of the fatal bus crash in Kilmore, a...
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Ali Pate, has cautioned Nigerians against excess intake of salt and sodium, saying it could cause hypertension and other heart diseases. Pate said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a news conference to commemorate the 2024 Salt Awareness Week,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday asked Israel to lift the blockade on medical supplies in Gaza. Head of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said approximately 700 seriously ill patients were stuck in a war zone. “Crossings from Egypt into Gaza have remained closed for two weeks, cutting...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government through Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development is currently holding a two-day meeting at the Freiz Continental Hotel in Abuja. Today marks the final day of the meeting which commenced yesterday with a focus on advocacy for the adoption...
The Divisional Police Officer of New Marte in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State has been killed by members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP). It was gathered that the DPO, a Superintendent of Police, was killed on Monday night while defending the police...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi has staged a peaceful protest over the Federal Government’s failure to address its plight, saying that it is tired of the government’s “deception”. The Union called on the Government to avoid...