The President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa as the new Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Adetifa will replace Chikwe Ihekweazu who was recently appointed an assistant director-general of the global health body – World Health Organisation. A statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the […]
Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state, Monday said that the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was the worst thing to happen to the economy of the area. This is as the governor has told those holding federal positions from the zone to always visit their states and identify with their […]
The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Fulani Socio-Cultural Association has called on the National Assembly to intervene and stop attempt by some states governors to enact anti-open grazing laws targeted at Fulani pastoralists. The National Secretary of the association, Mr Saleh Alhassan, made the call a National Peace Summit and Investiture of Queen Mother Amina Temitope […]
Ahead of the November 6 Governorship Election in Anambra State, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has declared that no one will be allowed to vote except such person has undergone an electronic authentication of his identity using its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System BVAS. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this Monday in Abuja during […]
The Federal Government is ready to withdraw the case instituted against the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) if striking doctors return to work. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said this on Sunday after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. “I have briefed Mr President, we […]
NIGERIANS are in for a hard time as prices of food items and other products have continued to soar excessively in the last one year under the guise of dollar shortages and naira depreciation. Except the prices of a 50-kilogramme (kg) bag of garri and rice each that have remained stable at N15,000 and N28,000 […]
Gunmen have kidnapped the younger sister of the Deputy Speaker of the Katsina State House of Assembly, Shehu Dalhatu Tafoki. The victim, identified as Asma’u Dalhatu, was kidnapped in the early hours of Sunday. The gunmen took her away after they attacked Tafoki village in Faskari Local Government Council of the State. The Deputy Speaker, […]
Parents of the students kidnapped from Government Day Secondary School in Kaya, Maradun LGA of Zamfara state, have lamented their inability to communicate with the captors and the authorities. The police said 73 students were abducted when gunmen invaded the school around 11am on Wednesday. Five students, all girls, escaped from captivity on Thursday. On […]
The Nigerian Government has condemned what it describes as an apparent coup d’état in the Republic of Guinea. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mrs Esther Sunsuwa, made the position of the government known in a statement on Sunday. According to the statement, the takeover of power by the military is in clear […]
The Taliban on Monday claimed total control over Afghanistan, saying they had won the key battle for the Panjshir Valley, the last remaining holdout of resistance against their rule. Following their lightning-fast victory in mid-August over the former Afghan government’s security forces and the withdrawal of US troops after 20 years of war, the Taliban […]
