As part of measures to beef up security for the November 16th governorship and Kogi West Senatorial election, the Nigerian Police, in conjunction with sister security agencies has announced the shutting down of all entry and exit borders. The Kogi State Commissioner of Police Hakeem Busari disclosed this while addressing journalists at the Police headquarters […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says collation officers for the Nov. 16 Kogi governorship election will come from federal tertiary institutions outside the state. INEC Federal Commissioner for Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Festus Okoye, told newsmen in Lokoja on Wednesday that drawing the officials from other states was part of efforts to guarantee […]
Leadership for Better Nigeria Initiative, ALBNI, has called on the Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Chiji Collins to come out clean on the Doctorate Degree he claimed to have bagged from an Italian university. The group also wants him to explain the circumstances surrounding his exemption from participating in the National Youth […]
The Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, today presented before the State House of Assembly the sum of N108, 414, 101, 082 as the budget estimate for 2020 financial year. Tagged as budget of “Continuity and Consolidation” governor Buni while making his first-ever budget presentation said the sum represents an increase of N16.7 billion or […]
Three Policemen serving at Fadan Karshi Outpost in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State were on Tuesday shot dead by unknown gunmen at a checkpoint between Fadan Karshi and Sabon Gida village. the Vice-Chairman Sanga Local Government Council Alhaji Abubakar Abba, who confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday said […]
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, adjourned till Nov. 20 for the Police Service Commission (PSC) to respond to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF)’s counter-affidavit in a suit to stop the recruitment of 10, 000 police officers. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who adjourned the case on the instance of the PSC, said the development […]
The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 9th 2019 gubernatorial election in Oyo State, Mr. Adebayo Adelabu has declared that he is approaching the Supreme Court in order to validate his victory at the poll. Adelabu made this declaration while reacting to the Monday’s judgement of the Appeal Court which […]
The North-Central Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Mr Joel Dagwa has confirmed that two hundred and thirty-six people were killed in 365 road accidents within nine months in Niger State. According to him, the accidents took place between January and September 2019. Dagwa stated that 2,097 people were involved in the accident that left […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will create a platform that will enable candidates who scored 250 and above know why they are denied placements in their respective schools of choice. Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Media and Information, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria […]
Liverpool player, Mohamed Salah has welcomed Nigerian Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Honourable Dr Isa Pantami at Cairo Airport. Pantami is currently in Egypt on an official working visit. Pantami last week insisted the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) must work out modalities to reduce the price of data in the interest of Nigerians. TheNation […]
few days after his 57th birthday, Femi Otedola, Nigerian multibillionaire and businessman, made history by donating N5 billion for the care of children facing extreme challenges as a result of Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast. According to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, this is the largest donation to charity by a single individual in the nation’s […]
Said Jammal, a white nigerian, the owner of the popular Aeroplane House in Abuja has explained why he built the unique residential apartment for his family. The father of 6 said he built the Aeroplane house because his wife travels a lot. He further disclosed that he felt the building he started off in 1999 […]
Reno Omokri has replied the Indimi family after they attacked him over the comment he made referring to their family earlier today.  This morning, Reno called out their family and other wealthy Northern families after billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, donated N5 billion to Save the Children Fund. The money is expected to be used […]
Beans are packed with numerous health benefits. For the sellers, it has economic values and that is why they sell them. This economic value beans have is as a result of the enormous benefits people derive from beans Some of these benefits are discussed below. *Protein SourceAccording to medicalnewstoday, adding beans to grains can turn […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria has the second largest number of child brides in the world, with 23 million girls and women married out as children in the country, thereby ending their educational strive. Mr Bhanu Pathak, Chief of Field Office (CFO) UNICEF Nigeria, Bauchi Field Office, stated this in Bauchi on […]
Mrs Aishatu Mohammed, the wife of Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, said on Saturday that she had had no formal education as of the time she married her husband. Mohammed stated this in Bauchi at the occasion of the “Naija Youth Talk”, Organised by the Bauchi Field Office of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) […]
Here is a list of 5 of such mentalities Nigerian youth must drop to succeed: Written and Shared by Rosemary Egbo 1. The “Starting small takes too much time.” mentality I have conversed with a lot of Nigerian youth and the mentality of not wanting to start small is common. Some believe that starting small […]
16 persons, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect and Islamic State, West Africa Province have surrendered themselves, along with eight of their wives, to army troops at Fotokol in Borno State. -This followed consistent raids, clearance patrols, sting operations, cordon and search operations as well as mortar and artillery bombardment of identified […]
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has disclosed that the Republic of Benin has maintained a strong economic performance despite Nigeria’s closure of the land border connecting the two countries. Nigeria on the 19 September 2019, had abruptly halted import and export activities on the border as one of its strategies of stopping smuggling, trafficking and […]
Femi Falana, senior of advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says lawyers waited to receive Omoyele Sowore at the headquarters of the Department of State Services (DSS) after a court order to release him was served. The DSS had on Friday said it received the order to free the convener of the Revolution Now movement, but there […]
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