By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Suspected gunmen have killed a Police officer in Kafanchan who went to arrest an Indian hemp smoker. They also carted away his rifle on Saturday night along Jos street in Kafanchan, the headquarters of Jema’a local government area of Kaduna State. READ ALSO:UBEC to collaborate with NASENI on home grown science equipment, […]

Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission,UBEC, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has said the commission will collaborate with the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure,NASENI, for the supply of science equipment and solar power to basic education schools across the country.

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City The newly appointed Commissioner of Police in Edo state, Philip Ogbadu has said the 54 firearms were carted away from various police formations in the state during the #EndSARS protest last year where jailbreaks were recorded in two correctional centres in the state but only eight have been recovered […]

Urges higher tax revenue Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has identified debt service as Nigeria’s greatest risk and urged the federal government to take steps to increase tax revenue in the face of dwindling oil income. He spoke virtually at the recently held First Annual National Tax Dialogue, according […]

 By Ozioruva Aliu  BENIN CITY – THE Public Relations Officer, Edo State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs. Bridget Esene has been reported kidnapped by gunmen yesterday on her way to church.   It was gathered that the gunmen trailed her when she was going to church on Sunday morning around the Iqueniro area […]

GENERAL Overseer of The Redeemed Christian of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, is a definition of grace which has sustained him for 78 years as a human and 40 years as a General Overseer.

Warns arresting Igboho will escalate growing tension By Chris Ochayi ABUJA: The Middle Belt Forum, MBF, Sunday, called on the Federal Government to join hands with Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and other state governors to flush out criminals herders to end the culture of lawlessness ripping across the country by these murderers who […]

By Ibrahim HassanWuyo National President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Shettima Yerima has admonished the governor of Ondo state, Rotimi Akeredolu, to rescind the quit order he earlier gave the Fulani residing in his state and compensate those who fell victim of the attack on Fulani communities in the southwest state. Yerima said […]

Mosunmola, the grief-stricken widow of former Super Eagles Assistant Coach, Joe Erico, has vowed not to contact the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, over the burial of her late husband.

By Dirisu Yakubu  National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan has described remarks credited to Professor Attahiru Jega on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government as a vindication of the position of the party that governance in the past five and a half years has been the worst in the history […]

The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has warned the state government to stop intimidating Judges in the cause of their duties, even as it commended the new Commissioner of Police for being professional. The Ebonyi indigenes said the agents of state government were trying to manipulate the judiciary into causing trouble […]

By Tunde Oso   Some traditional rulers in Ido/Osi Local Government area of Ekiti State have appealed to the Committee superintending over the creation of Local Council Development Authorities (LCDAs) to embrace justice and fairness in the location of the LCDAs’ headquarters . The traditional rulers; the Olosi of Osi-Ekiti, Oba Oladiran Adewoye Agunbiade, Olugbole […]

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City The Edo State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) on Sunday differed with the senator that represented Edo North Senatorial District between 2011 and 2015, Senator Domingo Obend,e over his appointment as the chairman of Niger State registration committee of the party as it alleged that Obende was […]

By Adeola Badru The Chairman Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Engr. Adedeji Doherty has called on Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, to exercise caution in handling the tension created by insecurity in the state, saying calling for the arrest of Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo (aka Sunday Ighoho) will not solve the problems. […]

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has appealed to public-spirited Nigerians to assist indigent candidates to get tablets, as the university gets set for the non-physical post-UTME test. Ogundipe made the appeal during an interview with  Newsmen on Sunday in Lagos. According to him, in the face of the resurgence of Novel Coronavirus […]