An American citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Niger earlier this week has been freed, the country’ s defence minister told AFP on Saturday . “ I confirm the American hostage was released last night, ” minister Issoufou Katambe said , without giving details of the circumstances of the release or the hostage ’ s whereabouts […]
The Defence Headquarters has denied media reports that four persons were killed by soldiers and their bodies dumped in a pond in Jos during clampdown on looters of private properties in the state. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Saturday, described such reports as malicious and mischievous. Enenche explained […]
…Flavour participated in the ENDSARS protests like other celebrities—Brother The recent allegation levelled against popular music heavyweights, Flavour N’abania and Phyno by the Enugu State government that the duo collected the sum of N78 million from the former Deputy Senate president, Dr. Ike Ekweremmadu to tarnish the image of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi during the nationwide […]
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the Federal Government will do everything possible to discourage “physicians’ brain drain” from the country. Ehanire said this on Friday in Abuja after inspecting work on the new cancer centre at the National Hospital, Abuja. “I have heard the challenge of doctors leaving the country. We have […]
…Threaten court action until he agrees to contest The Nassiriya Organization in 21 states of the federation has vowed to leave no stone unturned in its resolve to drag the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasiru Ahmad El- Rufa’i into the 2023 presidential race. Speaking to journalists in Kaduna, the National Leader of the Nassiriya […]
Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has urged journalists to hold government officials accountable, rather than give them awards on the basis of “friendship”. Wike stated this on Friday when the national leadership of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) paid him a courtesy visit at the government house in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital. Wike, […]
The interim management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has assured the beneficiaries of its Foreign Post Graduate Scholarship programme in the United Kingdom that their outstanding claims will be paid within a week. A statement signed by the Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, said the NDDC Acting Executive Director, Projects, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, […]
As normalcy is restored in many parts of Nigeria after the violence that occurred when hoodlums hijacked the #EndSARS protest, the governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has raised alarm over the absence of police officers on the streets of the state. Mr Akeredolu who expressed worry in a statement by his Commissioner of Information, […]
Police in Edo State on Friday released an 11-year-old boy, Gift Osayuhi, who was arrested last week over his alleged involvement in the attack on a police station in the state. Gift was arrested for allegedly joining the gang of hoodlums that attacked the Oba Market police station at Evbuotubu area of Benin City. After […]
Members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, alleged to be behind the mayhem in Oyigbo, a community in Rivers State are from Abia State, Governor Nyesom Wike has said. Wike, spoke when he received members of the Rivers caucus of the National Assembly in Port Harcourt on Friday, according to Kelvin Ebiri, the Special Assistant […]
