BY EFE MODESTUS ”Our visit here is to ensure three principal issues: to stop overloading, to ensure that there will be no more night travelling and the canoes or boats must have passengers manifest so that whatever happens we can easily identify one’s relations.” The Taraba State Government says noContinue Reading
Kanwan Katsina District Head Of Ketare, Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara ‘mni’ has continued to be inundated with cheerful words of felicitations from friends and well-wishers all over the federation, as he clocks 23 fruitful and prosperous years on the throne. The latest were from two Community Development Associations, Ketare DistrictContinue Reading
BY ADOLPHUS DURU Mother of a 27-year-old young man identified as Onyekachi Ugiri, who was allegedly killed by the police during the protest that rocked Port Harcourt over the move by the Rivers State House of Assembly to impeach the state governor has demanded her son’s corpse. Protesters had taken overContinue Reading
Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf BY GODWIN OBI In its bid to make education affordable for children of the poor, the Kano State Government has approved the reduction of tuition fees of all state owned tertiary institutions by fifty percent. Governor Abba Yusuf said this on Friday during the airliftingContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Two suspected Boko Haram terrorists have been arrested by troops of the Nigerian Army and the Department of State Services (DSS) in Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano State. The arrest followed a raid by security operatives in the early hours of Friday on the terrorists’ hideout.Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Presidency on Friday said France will return $150 million looted by former Nigerian military leader, General Sani Abacha. In a statement, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, said President Bola Tinubu commended the European country for the decision. Receiving theContinue Reading
L-R: Professor Pauli Gunter, Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA Dr. Bashir Jamoh; and Mr. Gelele Olushola, during a meeting on the possibilities of Blue Economy in Nigeria that was held in Abuja. BY GODWIN OBI The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI, JAMES AKINOLA AND ADOLPHUS DURU The naira yesterday depreciated to N1,180 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,170 per dollar on Wednesday. However , the naira appreciated in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM) yesterday to N793.28 per dollar. Data from FMDQ showed that the indicativeContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Femi Falana has faulted the police account on the controversial arrest and brutalization of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Joe Ajaero. Ajaero was picked up from the Imo ouncil secretariat of the NLC in Owerri on WednesdayContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday debunked rumours of naira scarcity in the country, amid reports that there is no sufficient cash circulation in some commercial banks nationwide. CBN in a statement by its spokesman, Isa AbdulMumin, blamed some customers for panic withdrawal using the AutomatedContinue Reading