File photo of terrorists By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri Fleeing residents of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno state have revealed that armed Boko Haram sect have on Sunday night launched an attack on the town with fear of severe casualties. Gwoza is one of the Council areas declared as Boko Haram caliphate until it was liberated. The incident according to …
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) urged the Federal Government to leave the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) as condition to call off its ongoing strike in the country. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President said this in a statement made available on Sunday in Abuja that the ongoing strike may still linger if …
Orji Kalu … hails Biden, Harris By Victor Ajihromanus Former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Kalu, has said the victory of US President-elect, Joe Biden, shows the country’s electoral process is a model worthy of emulation. Describing the victory as victory for the world, Kalu emphasised the role …
Lai Mohammed The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Sunday in Lagos said that the Federal Government will continue to address the issue of job creation for the youth. Mohammed said this while speaking with newsmen on the sideline of the meeting of governors, ministers and traditional rulers of South-West states following the …
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, South-East Governors and other stakeholders are currently locked in crucial talks at the Government House, Port Harcourt. Ebonyi Governor Dave Umahi, was said to led other South East Governors to the meeting at the Rivers Government House. READ ALSO:VIDEO: LCC boss presents footages of Lekki shootings as legal tussle …
robber One time Nigeria’s most wanted criminal, Shina Rambo, has resurfaced in the Ekiti capital professing that he is now a changed man working for God as a preacher of the gospel of Christ. He spoke on Sunday night on a weekend Yoruba programme monitored on Fresh FM Radio, Ado Ekiti, and anchored personally by prominent ace …
By Adesina Wahab The Acsdemic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Sunday night the insistence of the Federal Government to use its payment platform, the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, to pay some entitlements due to its members is the main reason the ongoing strike by the union members has lingered. The umion …
•Prof Umar Garba Danbatta By Emmanuel Elebeke Says digital age offers greater revenue-earning potential. The Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, says economic diversification and ethical leadership are needed at all levels of government as panacea to the current economic headwinds in Nigeria. Danbatta stated this when he …
Juanita, a 24-year-old Ghanaian woman, has bitten off the penis of Emmanuel Ankron, a suspected armed robber who had asked for a blow job after allegedly raping her. Blow job is the activity of giving sexual pleasure to a man by using the mouth on his penis. According to BBC, the incident occurred at Obuasi …
By Bashir Bello KANO – Kano State Hisbah Board has destroyed 1,975,000 bottles of beer worth over N200 million confiscated within Kano metropolis. The destruction exercise was carried out at Kalebawa in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of the state by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Speaking at the event, Ganduje represented by his Deputy, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf …
The United Nations Deputy Secretary General, Ms. Amina Mohammed is billed to arrive Nigeria on Sunday on a working visit with other members of the global body. Mohammed, who is leading a delegation of five high level members of the UN to four West African countries, is on a mission to hold discussions on how …
South-West governors and traditional rulers have called for the review of reports of constitutional conferences, including the 2014 National Conference. They made the call in a communique issued on Sunday in Lagos after a meeting of governors, ministers and traditional rulers of South-West states in following the EndSARS protest mayhem. The one-day meeting was also …
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government through the states Environmental and Special Offences, Enforcement Unit, called taskforce, has served a 7-day ‘Removal Order’ and quit notices to owners, occupiers of all illegal structures, shanties numbering over 2,500 in Fagba, Iju-Ishaga along, Abbatoire new Oko-Oba area of the state. Recall there had been …
By Adeola Badru Items worth millions of naira, were yesterday destroyed as part of a grocery and household supermarket, Grandex stores, believed to be owned by Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, wife of the late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi, located at Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, was razed by fire. The incident which started at 3:00 pm, from …
By Adeola Badru Items worth millions of naira, were yesterday destroyed as part of a grocery and household supermarket, Grandex stores, believed to be owned by Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, wife of the late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi, located at Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, was razed by fire. The incident which started at 3:00 pm, from …
A map of Nigeria By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA–THE Presidency has said that Lagos, Kano and Abia states will be treated differently from other states of the federation in the distribution of palliatives under the N75 billion Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) MSMEs Survival Fund because they will have more beneficiaries. The Presidency also said that other states …
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Presidency has said that Lagos, Kano and Abia states will be treated differently from other states of the federation in the distribution of palliatives under the N75 billion Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) MSMEs Survival Fund because they will have more beneficiaries. The Presidency also said that other states and the Federal …
Mai Mala Buni …Says Organising membership registration outside his mandate of the committee, an attempt by Buni to perpetuate himself in office. By Henry Umoru SENATOR Kabiru Marafa who represented Zamfara Central in the Senate has asked the Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, to immediately convene a national …
By Bashir Bello – Kano Not fewer than 200 patients including children with different ear and hearing problems have been treated and rescued from developing deafness through medical interventions by a charitable group, Suleiman Hearing and Educational Foundation. The Foundation’s Director, Hearing Mission, Dr. Abdulmajid Suleiman disclosed this while carrying out a medical outreach in …
A file image of the #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Tollgate, before the gunfire. Says remand of six Abuja demonstrators till January 2021 reeks of ‘unholy alliance’ between court and police By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA – The Centre for Liberty has advised members of the judiciary to be wary of what comes out of politicians who seek to clampdown …
