• Bandits attacked church on March 21, kidnapped five persons, says Hayab• Gunmen abduct Catholic priest, Oyo couple, six others in Kaduna, Niger• Buhari orders service chiefs to identify, take out sponsors of bandits The Christian Association of Nigeria, Kaduna State chapter, has said no fewer than 100 residents of the state are in different […]
Continue ReadingPeter Dada The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a security guard working at the S.A. Filling Station in Ondo town, Abiodun Osuntimehin, for his alleged involvement in the robbery of the station.Abiodun was said to have mastermind the robbery attack on the station. A colleague of the suspect was said to have been killed […]
Continue ReadingSunday Aborisade The North-Central Zonal Caretaker Committee overseeing the activities of the Peoples Democratic Party in Niger State has reversed the suspension of a former governor of the state, Babangida Aliyu, from the party. The caretaker panel, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Suleiman Mohammed, Monday night, described the ex-governor’s suspension as fake news.The […]
Continue ReadingSunday Aborisade The Special Adviser to the President of the Senate on Media and Publicity, Ola Awoniyi, said on Tuesday that his principal, Ahmad Lawan, never proposed an unlimited tenure for the office of the President of Nigeria. Awoniyi, in a statement in Abuja, said he was responding to a tweet which attributed a fabricated […]
Continue ReadingChidiebube Okeoma Elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, on Tuesday, said nobody can sack him from the Peoples Democratic Party. Iwuanyanwu, who said that he is a life member of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, said he had committed his time working for the success of the party. The elder statesman said his role […]
Continue ReadingJohnny Edward Super Eagles players in the English Premier League and the Championship will self-isolate for 10 days on their return to the United Kingdom, The PUNCH reports. The Eagles have in their ranks six players who would return to England after helping the national team qualify for the 2021 Africa Cup Of Nations billed […]
Continue ReadingEniola Akinkuotu and Okechukwu Nnodim A Federal High Court in Lagos State has barred the Federal Government from blocking SIM cards not linked to National Identity Numbers next month.The Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy had, through the Nigerian Communications Commission, asked operators to block all SIM cards not linked to NIN by April 6, […]
Continue ReadingLeke Baiyewu The House of Representatives’ Committee on Customs and Excise has proposed a revenue target of N1.56tn for the Nigeria Customs Service in 2021, up from the original N1.4tn proposition. The amount was set for the NCS in 2020 before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that led to a downward review of the […]
Continue ReadingEniola Akinkuotu The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says he personally travelled to Niger Republic to beg the country to allow the Nigerian government to construct the $1.95bn railway from Kano State into Maradi in Niger Republic.Amaechi said this on Channels Television’s ‘News Night’ programme on Monday which was monitored by our correspondent. The railway […]
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