A husband and wife identified as Sulaiman Idris, 28, and Maimuna Halliru, 20, have been found dead in their matrimonial bed after a smoke suspected to be from charcoal suffocated them while they were sleeping in Kano State. The incident happened on Tuesday in Kwa village of Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of the […]
Fresh facts have emerged as to why the Bauchi Emirate Council sacked an elder statesman, Alhaji Muhammadu Bello Kirfi, as a council member and Wazirin Bauchi. The council hinged his sack on what it described as disloyalty and disrespect toward the state governor. However, sources told our correspondent that the sack was politically motivated. […]
The Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the Governor of Imo State, as well as other South East governors, of deploying outdated and unworkable technique in the fight against insecurity, describing it as purely kinetic that lacks intelligence. HURIWA advised Uzodimma to abandon the belief that his so-called advanced technology, approved […]
Thursday 5 January 2022 Nigeria’s debt to hit N77tn, loan servicing gulps N5.2tn Olaleye: Medical test shows repeated forceful penetration – Doctor Scores of bandits killed, two arrested in Bauchi We’ve been borrowing to fund petrol subsidy — Finance Minister Man arrested for burning brother to death in A’Ibom Court declares assets by INEC […]
The scarcity of premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, may worsen following a claim by tanker drivers that security agents destroyed products they had lifted from refineries. Lucky Osesua, chairman of petroleum tanker drivers (PTD), a branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), spoke at a news […]
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso says it is wrong for any person who is considered a statesman to go about endorsing candidates ahead of the February 25 presidential election in Nigeria. “I want to advise our leaders: they should stop disgracing themselves. We have so much respect […]
Award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie says becoming the first woman in her Abba hometown of Anambra State will inspire other women to become honoured chiefs. Adichie, who has received many awards locally and internationally as a writer, over the weekend received the title of ‘Odeluwa’ which translates to ‘the one who writes for the […]
A professor of political economy and Founder of the Centre for Values in Leadership, Pat Utomi, has said the recently passed 2023 budget will lead to massive inflation, loss of jobs and collapse of exchange rate. The economist who described it as a budget of debt service, said the projected figures of N9 trillion […]
The Federal Government said it spent N12.87 trillion against the N17.126 trillion budgeted for 2022 as of Nov. 30, 2022. Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, said this at the Public Presentation and Breakdown of the Approved Federal Government 2023 Budget on Wednesday in Abuja. Ahmed said out of the […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said on Wednesday it secured a total of 3785 convictions across all its Commands in 2022. According to a statement by EFCC Spokesman Wilson Uwujaren, the figure, which emerged from a review of the commission’s performance in the outgone year, shows a 70.5% improvement over its record for […]
