International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said at least 1,200 Nigerians have died while trying to migrate through the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea this year. The acting Deputy Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nandap, disclosed this Thursday during the 2023 Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Nationwide Sensitization and Enlightenment Campaign at […]
Bandits on Wednesday abducted at least 23 women in a forest near Damaga community in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Daily Trust gathered. The women including young ladies went into the forest to fetch firewood when they were intercepted by a gang of armed men on motorbikes. The criminals then herded them […]
Tinubu against the choice of Abdullahi Ganduje, former governor of Kano, as the next national chairman of the party. In a statement on Thursday, Lukman said making Ganduje the next APC chairman is akin to laying a foundation that would make the ruling party unpopular. “Perhaps, it is important to clarify that this is […]
The Northern Independent Petroleum Marketers Forum on Thursday cried out over an unpaid whopping sum of N250 billion bridging claims saying as a result of the circumstances, quite a number of its members were running out of business that which could consequently lead to fuel scarcity in some parts of the country. The Chairman […]
The World Bank Group has urged Nigeria to reduce government’s borrowing from the Central Bank if it wants to reduce the inflationary pressure on the economy. World Bank’s Lead Economist for Nigeria, Alex Sienaert, stated this on Thursday during an economic review session at the Lagos Business School. In his keynote presentation, Sienaert commended […]
The Corporate Affairs Commission has said it will remove 100,000 registered companies from its database soon. During a training on ‘Use of the beneficial ownership register’, in Lagos, the Registrar-General and Chief Executive Officer, CAC, Alhaji Garba Abubakar, disclosed the commission’s intention to delete 100,000 registered companies from its database. “CAC steps up enforcement […]
Friday 28 July 2023 El-Rufai, Wike, other nominees face Senate screening Monday Reduce govt borrowing from CBN, W’Bank tells Nigeria Subsidy removal: Tinubu begs Nigerians to persevere more Diphtheria: 130 hospitalised in Kano, states begin immunisation Bandits Shoot One, Abduct 10 Construction Workers In Zamfara Suspend Plan To Increase School Fees, Falana Urges Varsity […]
The Campaign for Democracy (CD) in South East and Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE) has called on Federal Government as a matter of urgency release the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to restore peace in South East. In a joint statement in Abuja, the human […]
The House of Representatives has announced the names of the lawmakers who will chair 134 standing committees in the green chamber. Speaker Tajudeen Abbas unveiled the names of the committees’ chairpersons and their deputies on the floor of the house on Thursday. The composition of the panels is in line with house standing […]
The Obi-Datti Media Office has disowned a picture of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, purportedly taken with the Finland-based Biafran separatist, Simon Ekpa standing by his side. Head of the Media Office, Diran Onifade, in a statement he signed in Abuja, on Thursday, dismissed the photograph which has been making […]
