Akpabio justifies appointment of sole administrator for NDDC
…Says process legal, there was precedence .. Reveals N-Delta Govs demanded forensic audit of Commission .. Deplores lack of harmony between States, NDDC By Chris Ochayi Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio has urged Nigerians to stop referring to President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of a sole administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission, […]
JUST IN: Seme border reopens
Nigeria’s land border with Benin Republic at Seme, near Badagry, Lagos State, has been reopened on Friday. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited Seme on Friday, reports that human and vehicular movement across the border post have resumed after 16 months of closure. NAN also reports that officials of the […]
Live: President Buhari addresses 344 Kankara schoolboys
Posted by Sunday Nwafor on Friday, December 18, 2020 President Muhammadu Buhatri is currently in a meeting with the released 344 Kankara schoolboys. These children were kidnapped and were taken to Tsafe, Zamfara State, inside the terrorist hideout on Friday 11 of December, 2020. They were released yesterday through the intervention of the security operatives and were […]
Kankara schoolboys’ abduction, rescue is scam at our expense — Afenifere
*Says it’s time to rescue Nigeria from jokers By Dapo Akinrefon The Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, urged Nigerians to rise above any premordial sentiments rescue the country from what it described as a malady. In a statement by its National publicity secretary, Yinka Odumakin stated that the recent abduction and rescue of the kankara […]
Governor Ishaku signs 2021 appropriation bill into law
By Femi Bolaji – Jalingo Taraba state Governor, Darius Ishaku, has signed into law the 2021 appropriation bill which on Thursday passed third reading on the floor of the state house of assembly. The 2021 approved budget signed by the governor is over two billion Naira higher than the estimate presented to the house by […]
Breaking: Buhari, Kankara schoolboys meet in Katsina (Video)
By Nwafor Sunday President Muhammadu Buhari has received the released 344 Kankara schoolboys. These children were kidnapped and were taken to Tsafe, Zamfara State, inside the terrorist hideout on Friday 11 of December, 2020. READ ALSO: Photos: 344 released schoolboys handed over to Katsina governor They were released yesterday through the intervention of the security […]
Women are household pillars, says Umar Farouq
*As she flags off Rural Women Cash Grant in Adamawa By Joseph Erunke MINISTER of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has described rural women as pillars of the family and the bedrock of small businesses which contribute in no small measure to the economy of the nation. The minister,according to […]
Kankara Abduction: UNICEF reacts to release of children, says attack should never have happened
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reacted to the release of kidnapped school children who were abducted from their school about a week ago.
Our security challenges will never be the same again, Buhari assures Nigerians
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to aggressively address the nation’s security challenges, saying things will never be the same again in 2021. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president made this position known while reacting to the release of the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, at his country […]
NSCDC arrests fake Army Major, recovers vehicles in Nasrawa
By David Odama – Lafia The Nasarawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 46 years old, Amos John Ewuga, for alleged job racketeering, impersonation, and fraud. The command in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Muhammed Suraju Idris, explained that the Corps mounted surveillance and arrested the […]
A’Ibom records 48 new COVID-19 cases in 2weeks – SSG
..cancels large gathering By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo THE Secretary to State Government, SSG, and Chairman of COVID-19 management Committee, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem has disclosed that the state has recorded 48 new cases of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic in the less than two weeks. Ekuwem disclosed this in a statement tagged, “Second wave of COVID-19: Need […]
