Sunday, 24 November, 2024

Month: July 2021


The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba on Monday disclosed that 5, 000 (five thousand) policemen are currently fighting bandits alongside the military in the northeast. Baba said this in Abuja when the Defence and Police Officers Wives Association Read more…


Ambassador Maryam Yalwaji Katagum, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, on Monday, collapsed while on an official assignment in her native Bauchi State. The Minister was in Bauchi to launch an empowerment programme at one of the Read more…


Hours after bandits attacked and abducted 140 students from Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna government has ordered immediate closure of 13 schools in locations vulnerable to bandit attacks. The directive issued by Director General of Quality Assurance Authority in the Read more…


By Steve Agbota The Federal Government’s effort to diversify Nigeria’s economy through non-oil export sector suffered a major setback recently as exporters lamented the loss of over $75 billion in five years due to the horrible Apapa gridlock. This was as the nation’s Read more…


By   Chiedu Uche Okoye Anambra State is one of the states that make up the Southeast geopolitical zone. The Southeast, which lies in the tropical rainforest area, is chiefly peopled by the Igbo people, who are natives of the area. The Igbo Read more…


Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO on Monday, handing over the reins as the company navigates the challenges of a world fighting to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. Andy Jassy, who ran Amazon’s cloud-computing business, replaced Bezos, a Read more…


Armed assailants have abducted 140 children from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria. The mass kidnapping is the latest such incident in the country, with hundreds still missing from raids carried out in the past six months. The pupils were Read more…


The Southern Governors Forum at the end of the meeting held on Monday, 5th July, 2021 reviewed the situation in the Country and focused on the current security situation, constitutional amendment, Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).Rising from the meeting, the Forum Read more…


Hoodlums have chopped off the manhood of Matador from Orsu Iheti Ukwa in Imo State.× The man was seen tied in a viral video horizontally to a stick and subjected to inhuman treatment by the suspected hoodlums. The hoodlums were Read more…


Prince Emmanuel Kanu, younger brother of the arrested leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has said that his brother’s apprehension and subsequent detention in Nigeria was going to fasten the disintegration of the country. Speaking at Read more…


The Court of Appeal, Awka Division has upheld the judgment of an Anambra State High Court, disbanding  Caretaker Committee as the town union  of Alor community in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The appellate court dismissed the appeal Read more…


General Buba Marwa is an administrator par excellence from Adamawa State. He was Borno and Lagos State military administrator under the late General Sani Abacha and presently the DG NDLEA. I came close to Marwa the first time when we were Read more…