BY GODWIN OBI The Kanwan Katsina District Head of Ketare Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara ‘mni’ has commended the Katsina State Governor Mal Dikko Umar Radda’s commitment to boost irrigation farming in the state. Alhaji Usman Bello said the provision of solar powered water pumping machines provided by the state governmentContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Founder of National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) has advised freight forwarders not to fall victims of being father when making cargo declarations to customs. Aniebonam made this call in a press statement he issued recently where he lamented that “It is unfortunately dishearteningContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has hiked the benchmark interest rate by 200 basis points to 24.75 percent. This is according to a Tuesday communique by the CBN governor Yemi Cardoso after the second MPC meeting of his tenure inContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The military has released 230 suspected Boko Haram terrorists made up of two hundred and nineteen males and eleven females after profiling them. A source within the military says the suspects were cleared after it was established that they are not terrorists but were conscripted against theirContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI President Bola Tinubu at a Ramadan dinner with members of the Federal judiciary in Abuja on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 President Bola Tinubu has declared that individuals involved in despicable crimes such as kidnapping must be treated as terrorist The President made the declaration on Tuesday atContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Veteran Nollywood actor, Amaechi Muonagor, has died after a prolonged illness, at the age of 62. This was disclosed by a social commentator, Morris Monye, via his X handle, on Sunday. Muonagor was said to have suffered kidney failure and was on dialysis. The sudden news ofContinue Reading
…Arrests 4 kingpins BY GODWIN OBI Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have in a special operation, weekend, disrupted criminal activities of a cocaine syndicate in Abuja, with the arrest of three leaders of the groupA statement by spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said: “A followContinue Reading
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, have hailed the release of the Lea Primary and Government Secondary School Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. On March 7, about 287 schoolchildren were kidnapped when theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Scores of schoolchildren abducted from Kuriga, Kaduna have been released, two weeks after they were taken away in what was one of Nigeria’s largest mass kidnapping in years. The students, about 287, were kidnapped when the gunmen on motorcycles rode through their school, taking them away inContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has commended Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, for repealing the law that allowed former governors and their deputies to collect pensions He admonished other state governors to emulate Otti to reduce the cost of governance. The former President spoke during a courtesy visitContinue Reading