Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Owerri Gunmen suspected to be members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday stormed the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State and stopped students from taking their examination. Daily Trust gathered that the students were preparing to sit for English in the ongoing Junior […]
Heavily armed gunmen stormed a jail in Nigeria’s central Kogi state overnight, freeing scores of inmates, a prison authority spokesman said Monday. It was unclear who the gunmen were but central and northwest Nigeria have been terrorised by criminal gangs for years. “The medium Security Custodial Centre in Kabba, Kogi State, has been attacked by […]
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Ajuri Ngelale, on Monday, knocked Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for being allegedly tribalistic and aggressive in his pursuit for the collection of Value Added Taxes by the South-South state. Ngelale noted that the Federal Government has not been taking the money made in the oil-rich […]
The Federal Government has set a new date for the Nigeria @60 Jubilee Special Award ceremony. According to a statement made available on Monday by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, which was signed by the minister’s media aide, Ifedayo Sayo, the ceremony will hold on September 30, 2021, at the Banquet Hall, Presidential […]
Faruk Yahaya, the chief of army staff, has warned army commanders that he will no longer accept excuses in the war against insecurity in the country. The army chief spoke on Monday at the opening ceremony of the ‘Combined Second and Third Quarter Chief of Army Staff Conference’ in Abuja. Yahaya called on the commanders […]
The Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina, has asserted that President Muhammadu Buhari will abide by whatever the courts decide on the issue of Value Added Tax (VAT) that is currently the subject of litigation between some states and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). He gave this indication during an […]
Citizens Are Getting Poorer Because Nigeria Is Borrowing For Wrong Reasons – Peter Obi Soonest Nathaniel Updated September 13, 2021 A former vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi says Nigerians are getting poorer because the government is borrowing for the wrong reasons. Mr Obi, who was a guest on Channels […]
In spite of Governor Willie Obiano’s directive to market leaders, banks and other business outfits and stakeholders in Anambra State, to go back to their business or face sanctions, markets, banks, traders and residents of Onitsha and Nnewi still refused to go back to business, thereby, still observing the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB’s suspended […]
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed a politician dismissed for criticising her predecessor as energy minister in a cabinet reshuffle that also included the nomination of the country’s first female defence minister. Former deputy environment minister January Makamba was sacked from the government in 2019 and forced to apologise to then president John Magufuli […]
Former Nasarawa State governor and Senator representing Nasarawa West, Abdullahi Adamu, has again insisted that banning of open grazing of cattle was an infringement on fundamental rights of the herders. Senator Adamu made the declaration, on Monday, at an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja. The former Nasarawa State governor had last June accused the […]
