The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Y. D. Ahmed, has tasked corps members to take seriously, the security tips and lectures given to them at the camp. “Taking the security tips seriously will enhance your safety,” Ahmed said on Saturday while addressing corps...
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Dr Segun Oyebolu, has won the Social Democratic Party (SDP) ticket for the Nov. 16 Ondo State governorship election. Mr Joseph Achille Abu, the Chairman of the party’s governorship primary election committee, stated this at the end of the primary election in Ondo on Saturday. Achille said that...
Mr John Akinmurele, has emerged as the candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) for the Ondo State Nov. 16 governorship election. Akinmurele was elected unopposed by 89 out of 90 delegates at the indirect primaries on Saturday in Akure. Earlier, Mr Williams Moses, the Chairman of the...
Partial electricity supply has been restored to Gombe after the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) affected some repairs on its four transmission towers vandalised on Monday. Spokesman of the Jos Electricity Distribution Plc., Dr Adakole Elijah stated on Saturday that it had started to receive supply from Bauchi...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – Plateau State Government, in collaboration with the Environmental Protection and Sanitation Agency (PEPSA), have begun the enforcement of Executive Order 003 to enhance sanitation and decongest the cities of Jos and Bukuru. The order, issued by the state government in February 2024, aims...
The Commissioner for Information in Ekiti, Mr Taiwo Olatunbosun, has said no fewer than 203 public schools in the state benefit from the 25 million dollars School Improvement Grant (SIG) released by the World Bank to uplift the standard of education in the state. The commissioner said in...
Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle has said the Nigeria Navy recruited 1,486 personnel to boost the manpower needed for effective internal security operations in the Niger Delta. Matawalle said this during the Passing Out Parade (POP) of Nigerian Navy’s Batch 35 Trainees at the Nigeria...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Aishatu Kaoje has said no fewer than 11 perpetrators of various degrees of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the state have been sentenced and convicted in 2024. Kaoje stated this on Saturday in Sokoto during a...
Mr Adekunle Ajayi on Saturday emerged as the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) for the Nov. 16 election in Ondo State. Ajayi became victorious through affirmation by all 35 delegates of the party from the 18 local government areas of the state. The consensus mode...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A mental health expert, Dr. Auwal Musa, has said the survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV) especially those of sexual violation often have mental health challenges because of the impact of the experience. “Because of the seriousness of the mental health in some...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – A Civil Society Organisation, the Peoples Development Network has disclosed that the litany of baseless attacks on the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) may not be ending any time soon. This was revealed by the body’s Public Relations Officer, Ajibade Daniel in a...
The Police Command in Rivers says four people and over 70 vehicles were burnt in Friday’s fuel tanker explosion in the state. The explosion occurred along Eleme section of the East-West Road in the state at about 7:30 p.m. The command’s spokeswoman,SP Grace Iringe-Koko, told the News Agency...
It’s not geopolitics, nepotism, or religion that will be the cause of the collapse of the largest black nation on the planet if the Nigerian state crumbles. Corruption is what’s going to make that happen if something drastic is not done before it’s too late. Countries like...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Director-General (DG) of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General YD Ahmed, while on an assessment tour of the orientation camp in Maiduguri, paid a courtesy visit to the General Officer Commanding (GOC),.7 Division at the Headquarters in Maimalari Cantonment, on...
The police command in Anambra has arrested 16 notorious cultists and declared 21 others wanted following intensified efforts to end the resurgence of cult-related killings in Awka, the state capital. This is contained in a press release made available to journalists in Awka on Saturday by the...
Complication from measles is suspected to have killed at least 19 children in Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Commissioner for Health, Mr Felix Tangwami told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Mubi on Saturday that more than 200 children in the local government area...
Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Mr Aderemi Adeoye, has bowed out of the force after 35 years of meritorious service to the country. Adeoye pulled out at a colourful ceremony held at the Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka on Saturday, but will hand over to a successor...
Mr Akinuli Omolere has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) Party for the Nov. 16 Ondo state governorship polls. Mr James Vernimbe, the Party’s Chairman of the Primary Election Committee, said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. He said that the election...
Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, on Saturday in Abuja called on Nigerians, irrespective of tribe or religion to unite and fight Nigeria’s common enemies. Speaking at the second edition of Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA) sports carnival, Musa listed the common enemies as terrorism, banditry...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The funeral arrangement of late Nollywood actor, Junior Pope has been released. It would be recall that the actor drowned on April 10 along with four crew members, while travelling by water for filmmaker Adanma Luke’s film “The Other Side of Life”.