By Emmanuel Antswen Gunmen attacked one of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirants in Benue in the 2023 race, Mr Terwase Orbunde on Friday and abducted his wife and house help, the police declared on Saturday. Orbunde, Chief of Staff to erstwhile Gov. Samuel Ortom escaped with a gunshot wound to his right arm […]
By Stanley Nwanosike Twenty-three inmates of the Enugu Custodial Centre bagged Masters, first degree and Post Graduate Diploma of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) on Saturday. Five of them bagged the Master’s degree, 17 bagged their first degrees, while one got a Post-Graduate Diploma. The 23 are products of NOUN’s study centre at […]
Malian political parties and civil society groups jointly rejected on Thursday the ruling junta’s order to suspend political activities and vowed to mount a legal challenge to what one opposition politician called the “dictatorial” move. The West African country has been under military rule since a coup in 2020. Tensions have risen in recent […]
By Lydia Ngwakwe The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has projected a Return on Investment (ROI) of around N1.67 trillion in 15 years on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway corridor. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 700km Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project is designed to connect Lagos to Cross River, passing through the coastal […]
Samantha Power, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) believes that famine is already occurring in parts of the Gaza Strip. At a hearing in the U.S. Congress’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Power was asked whether this assessment was particularly true for the north of the sealed-off coastal area. She answered “yes.” […]
By Aminu Garko The Police Command in Kano State, said it had arrested 54 suspects who are planning to disrupt the Hauwan Daushe in different parts of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Usaini Gumel, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria NAN in Kano on Thursday. […]
By Oladapo Udom The Nigerian Navy (NN) says it has begun investigation on how one of its civilian staff members, Mr Ifeanyi Onumaegbu, died. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Adm. Emmanuel Ogalla, announced this in Lagos on Thursday. He explained that Onumaegbu died at the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital (NNRH) Ojo, Lagos, where he worked. […]
By Monday Ajogun The Anambra State Joint Security Force, has extended its manhunt for criminals attacking security formations in the state to Ogbaru forest. SP Tochukwu Ikenga, the Police Public Relations Officer in Anambra, made the disclosure in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday in Onitsha. According to him, troops of the Nigerian […]
By Funmilayo Adeyemi The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed candidates, who registered for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) to print their notification slips for examination. The board disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday by its Spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin. He said the 2024 UTME notification slip, which […]