The Federal Government on Saturday cleared the air on why it negotiated the sum of $1.2 million for the buses hired to evacuate Nigerians from Sudan due to the ongoing crisis in the country. It explained that the amount in question was negotiated in a “condition of war”. The government made the clarification in […]
The first batch of Nigerian evacuees from Sudan is set to arrive in the country. A Saturday joint statement from the ministries of Foreign Affairs, as well as Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, said the evacuees are currently in Egypt but will land in the country in no time. “In the time […]
Forty-Eight hours after it revoked the permission granted to the organised labour from using Eagle Square for the 2023 May Day, otherwise known as workers day, the Federal Government has said that the use of the venue is sacrosanct. Revalidation of the use of Eagle Square Abuja by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for […]
The Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has said that his convoy was not under attack, anywhere, either in the State or outside it on Saturday, 29 April or any other day. A report had surfaced Online which claimed that the Governor’s Convoy came under heavy attack by gunmen around the Ngor Okpala […]
The presidential candidate of the Labour party (LP), Peter Obi, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of the postponement of the 2023 census as a welcome development. Buhari gave the approval after meeting with some members of the Federal Executive Council; the Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Isa-Kwarra; and his team […]
Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has said the incoming government in Kano will revisit the dethronement of Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi, 14th Emir of Kano. Sanusi, who became emir in the final term of Kwankwaso as governor, was dethroned by outgoing Governor […]
A Pastor with the Celestial Church of Christ, Omotayo Valentine Akingbesote, has been accused of killing a 19-year-old girl identified as Loveth, at Igunshin in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. Daily Trust gathered that the 65-year-old cleric allegedly gave the deceased a drug known as “Largactil” to swallow in order to […]
Bandits have released 70 out of 85 victims abducted from Wanzamai village of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara state, Daily Trust gathered. The victims were kidnapped three weeks ago on farmlands. They are mostly residents of Wanzamai, a community that had suffered series of bandits’ incursions in the past. While the children went […]
The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested a couple (name withheld) over alleged self-kidnap for N5 million ransom. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. Hundeyin said that the husband, a 53-year-old technician and wife, 48 years old body massager and […]
Police were searching for a gunman believed to have shot dead five Hondurans including an eight-year-old child at a house in Texas, the local sheriff said Saturday, in the latest mass shooting to hit the United States. Investigators believe the gunman had been firing his AR-15 style gun in a neighboring yard when the […]
