With the ongoing crisis in Libya, Prime Minister, Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to use Nigeria’s position to restore peace in his country (Libya).

The Government of Saudi Arabia has declared Saturday, August 10th as Arafat Day, the height of Hajj rites when pilgrims all over the world converge on the Plain of Arafat for supplications.

Kuduru community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, rendered free medical services to hundreds of the residents of the community. The outreach saw residents of the community offered free testing, counselling and drugs dispensation.

By David Odama LAFIA—THE Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board SUBEB, yesterday said it spent N10bilion on various projects within two years in the state. State Chairman of the board, Muhammed Azumi, disclosed this while briefing journalists on the activities of the board in Lafia, Nasarawa State. According to the Chairman, the commission recently received   […]

Governor Aminu Masari said that the north-west governors have granted amnesty to bandits, cattle rustlers.

IT is generally commendable the consistency of focus and genuine heartedness with which the present management of Maritime Academy of Nigeria, MAN, under the captainship of the Rector, Commodore Duja Emmanuel Effedua, keeps fulfilling its promises across statutory and ancillary obligations of the Academy. Of course, this has attracted corresponding commentaries and wide appreciation from stakeholders and maritime observers, home and abroad.

The concluding part of the report which was first published yesterday. In apparent contravention of this, troops were deployed nationwide during the elections, without any clear coordination with INEC. In Rivers state, the military posed significant challenges and obstructions to the performance of election duties by INEC officials. Situation Room received reports of incidents of […]

The Middle Belt Reformers Movement (MBRM) has written an open letter Theophilus Danjuma, former Minister of Defence, over the killings between the Tivs and Jukun of Benue and Taraba states. In a letter addressed to Danjuma, the middle belt group expressed silence by Danjuma and other elders on the continuous killing of Tiv people in […]

The Police Command in Anambra has arrested three suspects for assaulting staff of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) while carrying out their duties in Nkpor area of the state.

As interfaith groups, 100 clerics organise 40-day deliverance prayers for Nigeria Nigerian cleric, Sheik Ahmad Jibrin, has called on Nigeria’s past leaders to reflect and sober on their past actions and inactions. This is just as the National Interfaith and Religious Organisations for Peace (NIFROP) has commenced a 40-day programme of fasting and prayers for […]

Out of 774 local government areas in Nigeria, only 13 of them in just four states have attained Open Defecation Free status

THE Federal Government of Nigeria has proscribed the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, otherwise known as Shiites, through an order of the court. The court order was given following an ex-parte application brought by the Federal Government where Justice Nkeonye Maha ordered that “no person or groups of persons should henceforth associate with the Shiites for any reasons.”

Ilorin—Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin,   yesterday, ordered the final forfeiture of a plaza valued N150 million belonging to a civil servant in Kwara State,  Rasaq Momonu, to the Federal Government.

ASABA—Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, yesterday, warned political office holders and other top government functionaries against any manifestation of corruption as his administration strives for a stronger state.

IBADAN—THE new kings, yesterday, vowed that they would only return to the Olubadan’s palace if they are accorded due recognition as obas and not as high chiefs.