By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO — Kabo Air Limited has expressed its readiness to airlift no fewer than 31,324 pilgrims allocated to it for this year’s hajj. The Corporate Affairs Manager of the firm, Alhaji Aminu Hamza told newsmen in Kano that the figure, representing 10 percent of the total pilgrims from Nigeria, will be airlifted […]

By Anayo Okoli Umuahia— ABIA State Police Command, yesterday maintained its ground that the four men killed by its men on Monday, at Ntigha in Isiala Ngwa on the Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Express way, were criminal suspects until the command completes its investigation. The police position came on a day the Amuzukwu community, the home of […]

By Umar Yusuf YOLA – Officials of National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Adamawa State Command, have arrested the Village Head of Zah in Michika Local Government Area and three of his subjects for allegedly cultivating plants  suspected to be Indian hemp. Addressing newsmen in Yola, the State Commander of NDLEA, Alhaji Hassan Abdullahi said, […]

By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin — Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State has effected a minor cabinet reshuffle with the upgrading of two of his special assistants and his Chief of Staff to the status of commissioner. He also brought on board a fresh appointment from Oyun Local Government,  making four in all as new commissioners […]

Enugu— This year’s edition of Africa’s foremost media excellence programme, the Nigerian Media Merit Award (NMMA), is to take place in Enugu, on November 21. The ceremony will also coincide with three other events, including the 150-year of Print Media in Nigeria (1859-2009), 50 years of Television Broadcasting and the Centenary Celebration of Enugu, (1909-2009). […]