The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, has called on citizens residing in the state to acquire arms with a view to protecting themselves from incessant attacks by bandits now bedevilling the Northwest region of Nigeria. A BBC Hausa report said that while discussing with journalists in Katsina,Masari said the number of police operatives […]
The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has recovered from COVID-19. Shehu announced his recovery in a Facebook post on Wednesday, barely a week after he confirmed his initial positive status to Channels Television. “I thank Almighty Allah for my speedy recovery from COVID-19,” he said in the social […]
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has said the agency is working with international partners to ensure Nigeria gets vaccines with long expiration dates. Adeyeye spoke against the backdrop of the one million doses of vaccines that expired in November and were destroyed […]
Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has alleged a plot by the Federal government of Nigeria to eliminate him in the Benin Republic. Recall that Igboho, 49, was arrested by operatives of Brigade Criminelle (Criminal Brigade) on July 19 in Cotonou. Despite efforts to get him released, he has spent over […]
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has given further insight into the President’s decision to withhold assent from the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021. In a statement on Tuesday, Mr Shehu said the move is part of efforts to protect the democracy of the nation and the President will do whatever […]
I have always maintained that Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State is a lawless governor with heart of bitterness, anti-people and deceit. In my view, the Supreme Court imposed governor possesses undemocratic tendencies with reckless abandon. The whole scenario and process of the gestapo abduction of Uche Nwosu is terroristic and barbaric. Unfortunately, it was […]
Rochas Okorocha, senator representing Imo west, has accused Hope Uzodimma, governor of the state, of ordering the arrest of Uche Nwosu. On Sunday, Uche Nwosu, former governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) and son-in-law of Okorocha, was arrested during a church service in Imo. Although Nwosu was released from custody hours after he was picked […]
An inferno has gutted some houses, lock-up shops and property worth millions of Naira around the Mile 50 layout, off Mile 50 road in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital. The incident occurred late Monday at Aliugbala Eze Street. The Assistant Superintendent of Police in the state, Mr Yakubu Zekeri, who confirmed the incident to Channels […]
The federal government and the family of the late Itunu Babalola, the Nigerian lady who died in Côte d’Ivoire after she was wrongly jailed, have rejected the autopsy on the cause of her death. The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, and the father of the deceased, Mr Emmanuel Babalola, yesterday gave […]
The Katsina State Government has said it will lift the ban on telecommunication services in the remaining seven affected Local Government Areas before January 2022. The governor, who disclosed this during a media parley with journalists on Tuesday in Katsina, urged residents to do their best to protect their areas from bandit attacks. The News […]
