As Kaduna commences Basic Health Care Provision Fund Program By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i is committed to achieving universal health coverage for citizens of Kaduna State as part of his drive for human capital development. The Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe disclosed this at the flagging off of the identification and enrolment exercise for […]

By Rosemary Iwunze   As the pension assets of the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, continue to rise, hitting N12.3 trillion as at November 2020, stakeholders have dismissed the move by the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, to borrow part of the fund arguing that majority of the states in the country have not keyed into the […]

FIFA on Monday launched the FIFA Professional Football Landscape, the first-ever digital database comprising key facts and figures on players, clubs, transfers and top-tier competitions across all 211 member associations. Bringing together data from a broad spectrum of key performance indicators that reflect the status of clubs and leagues worldwide, the new tool offers a […]

Northern elders have blamed failure of intelligence on the part of Service Chiefs for the rising spate of insecurity in the South West and other geo-political zones in the country.

Allegation is not true — Nwebonyi By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday raised alarm over an alleged plot by some thugs, suspected to be loyal to the State Government to set the Party’s Secretariat ablaze. “Last night, Onyekachi Nwebonyi led a motley crowd and made […]

The Nigeria Governors Forum is currently in a meeting with members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria. The meeting follows the expiration of an order by Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu wherein he asked members of MACBAN to vacate the state within seven days. More details shortly…

Says Garba Shehu’s statements troubling, famine imminent By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja In the wake of growing resentment against activities of some armed herdsmen across the country, Director General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum PGF, Salihu Moh. Lukman has called on the ruling All Progressives Congress APC to take steps to implement the report of […]

By Perez Brisibe THE Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administrative and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, Monday condemned the killing of an Azerbaijani sailor by gunmen during last Saturday kidnap attack by suspected pirates off Nigeria’s coast in the Gulf of Guinea. The incident which led to the death of the sailor also resulted […]

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. Journalists were told that the Police Officer, Sgt. John Auta, was […]

By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja Barely 24 hours after operatives of the Police-led anti-kidnapping Joint Taskforce, JTF, were withdrawn, bandits have struck an orphanage in the Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, abducting at least eight orphans and three others. The Rachael Orphanage Home opposite UBE Junior Secondary School in Naharati area […]