Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Mohammed Matawallen has directed the closure of all boarding schools in the state, following the abduction by gunmen of about 317 schoolgirls in the state. The Governor, in a state broadcast, said: “it is with a heavy heart that I address you this evening on the unfortunate incident of abduction […]
The COVAX initiative has shipped 504, 000 doses of the AstraZeneca /Oxford vaccine to Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d ’ Ivoire . This makes Côte d ’ Ivoire the second African country and first French – speaking country to receive vaccine doses through the COVAX Facility, the World Health Organisation says . COVAX […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has admonished the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and to reflect on the decision to ban cryptocurrency, saying that there should be regulation rather than prohibiting its use. He stated this on Friday in a keynote address delivered virtually at a one-day economic summit organized by the Central Bank of Nigeria, […]
The Department of State Services has claimed that its operatives did not make an attempt to arrest Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo , popularly known as Sunday Igboho, on Friday. The denial is coming a few hours after reports that a joint team of policemen and the Department of State Services attempted to arrest Sunday […]
A human rights activist and author, Comrade Paul Ikechukwu Njoku, has urged the President Buhari-led Federal Government not to attempt arresting or assassinating the Yoruba Activist, Sunday Igbo. Activist Paul warned that Nigerian youths, Igbo activists and collaborators will resist such ruthless absolutism. “This government should leave Sunday Igboho alone. He must not be kidnapped, […]
Salihu Tanko-Yakasai, media aide to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, has said the All Progress Congress-led government has failed Nigerians. The governor’s spokesman stated this in a flurry of tweets on Friday while reacting to the abduction of students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Gunmen […]
With the incessant kidnapping of innocent students in schools in some parts of the country by bandits, the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, and the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Friday said they would shut down schools since the lives of students and teachers are no longer safe. Speaking in separate interviews with […]
Some gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted over 300 schoolgirls at Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata – Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State . A staff of the school , who begged for anonymity, said the bandits arrived in the school around 1am on Friday with Hilux vehicles and motorcycles […]
The Imo state police command has said that a police woman was shot when suspected hoodlums attacked a police station in Aboh Mbaise local government area of Imo state. The state Police public Relations Officer, PPRO, Orlando Ikekwo, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Owerri. He said it was as a result of the gun […]
A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria , Dr Obadiah Mailafia , says many of the bandits terrorising the country were sponsored by persons who wanted to push former President Goodluck Jonathan out of power at all cost . Mailafia said this during an interview with The PUNCH on Thursday. He said […]
