By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna has urged residents of Mando, Tsamiya, Kauya and Afaka general areas not to panic over its scheduled shooting exercise. The NDA spokesman, Maj. Mohammed Maidawa, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Kaduna. Maidawa, said the...
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has warned the Coordinator of Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD), Mr Abdulkadir Zulkiflu, against negotiating with contractors. Wike, who gave the warning while inaugurating the coordinator in Abuja on Tuesday, advised him to view the appointment as...
The Minister of Interior, Mr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says corruption and corrupt practices fuel insecurity in the country, calling for all hands to be on deck to fight the menace. The minister said this, when he paid a courtesy visit to Dr Musa Aliyu, SAN, the Chairman of Independent...
The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Prof. Joseph Utsev, has cautioned that 148 Local Government Areas (LGAs) across 31 states are among the highly probable flood risk areas for 2024. Utsev issued this warning during the official unveiling of the 2024 Annual Flood Outlook (AFO) on Monday...
By ESTHER ALEXANDER, Abuja – No fewer than 33,634 Palestinians have been killed and at least 76,214 wounded in Israeli military onslaught on the Gaza Strip. In addition, 462 Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, while 13,000 Palestinians are reportedly missing in the...
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) has said it is taking steps towards tackling migration of health workers through capacity training programmes. NPHCDA Coordinator in Cross River, Mr Julius Idoko, said this at the opening of a five-day capacity training for 100 frontline healthcare workers in...
Cross River State Commissioner for Health, Dr Egbe Ayuk, has disclosed that only 196 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC) of the 1,045 centres spread across the state are functional. The commissioner made the disclosure in Calabar on Tuesday during a briefing to mark this year’s World Health Day which has...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – A new Commissioner of police for Benue State Police Command has assumed duty. He is CP Hassan Steve Yabanet, who has taken over from CP Emmanuel Adesina. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Sewuese Catherine Anene, said Yabanet who hails...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a three-count charge against popular Instagram celebrity Pascal Okechukwu also known as Cubana Chief Priest for allegedly spraying and tampering with the naira at a social event contrary to the provisions of the Central Bank Act of 2007. ...
The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has denied the allegation that its premises were being used as armoury by the Yoruba Nation agitators. The hospital’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mrs Funmi Adetuyibi, cleared the air in a statement in Ibadan on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Kaduna State House of Assembly has set up a fact-finding committee to probe all finances, loans and contract projects awarded under the former Governor Nasiru El-Rufai administration. It would be recalled that Governor Uba Sani, during a town hall meeting on Saturday, lamented the huge debt inherited...
A middle-age man was, in the early hours of Tuesday, electrocuted while trying to vandalise a BEDC transformer on Airport road in Benin. The deceased, whose identity has not yet been ascertained, was said to have succeeded in cutting some of the cables before he was electrocuted. The...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, says the most important task at Thursday’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party should be how to save Nigeria in 2027. Pearse, former member, Atiku Abubakar 2023 Presidential Campaign Council, said this in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has reiterated his administration’s commitment to developing agriculture in the state. Governor Zulum also gave assurance of his continuous assistance to farmers in the state, saying, “This, I believe, will go a long way in enhancing the productivity...
eight people, including six children, died, while two are missing following a shipwreck on Monday in Mozambique’s Caia District. The Radio Mozambique reported the death on Tuesday. According to the report, the canoe-type boat was carrying a total of 12 people, most of them farmers, when it sank in...
The Federal Government paid about ₦205bn as electricity subsidy in the third quarter of last year, according to data obtained from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) latest report. The Commission’s third quarterly market report revealed the government incurred a subsidy obligation of about ₦205bn in 2023/Q3 (average...
A chieftain of the APC in Ondo State, Mr Femi Adekanmbi, says destiny has placed Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa as a governorship aspirant over others jostling for the seat in the state. Adekanmbi, in a statement on Tuesday in Akure, said the governor was ordained to lead the state,...
The Nigerian Army says its troops have made significant inroad into terrorists’ enclave in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara, where they destroyed the terrorists’ camp and eliminated 12 of them. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Maru LGA is one of the hotbeds of terrorism...
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, once again warned Israel against mounting a military counter-attack following Iran’s recent air assault on Israel. During a telephone call with Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin, Hamad Al Thani, Raisi warned that “the slightest action” by Israel against Iran’s national interests “will have extensive and...
The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee, has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) to reconcile the N45 billion unremitted operating surplus recorded from 2007 to 2021. Chairman of the committee, Rep. Bamidele Salam, gave the directive on...