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Month: February 2022


Renowned Muslim scholar; Sheikh Ahmad Gumi whose Kaduna home was gutted by fire, has appealed to the concerned authorities to educate the public on the use of fire prevention appliances and extinguishers.  He told journalists that it was part of Read more…


Barely 48 hours after the Agbekoya threatened the Benin Republic to release the Yoruba nation activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo better known as Sunday Igboho from their captivity, unknown gunmen, Saturday, attacked the Soka residence of the activist in Ibadan, where Read more…


Security personnel attached to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), yesterday, allegedly denied the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, access to the Airforce Base, Makurdi, as he tried to approach the flight line to receive Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The vice president Read more…


The Peoples  Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in Oji-River Local Government Area of Enugu State have said they are 100 per cent  behind Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in the forthcoming local council elections. The stakeholders disclosed this on Friday at a rally in Read more…


The Debt Management Office (DMO) has picked holes in the analysis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which recently said in its 2021 Article IV, that the Nigerian Government could spend as much as 92.6 per cent of its revenue Read more…


China, in addition to being Africa’s largest trading partner, is almost single-handedly building the future of the continent’s cityscapes. And despite rhetoric from US President Joe Biden and other wealthy country leaders about the urgent need to improve infrastructure on Read more…


US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken by phone on Saturday as tensions remain at boiling point over Ukraine. According to a White House readout of the call, Biden warned Putin that the US and its Read more…


MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian naval vessel chased away a U.S. submarine in Russian waters in the Pacific after the submarine ignored a Russian order to surface, Interfax news agency cited the defence ministry as saying on Saturday. The Russian Read more…


An officer with the Nigeria’s secret police, SSS, has provided a heart-wrenching account of how a female job-seeker, Iniubong Umoren, was raped and brutally killed by her alleged attacker, Uduak Akpan, last year in Uruan, Akwa Ibom State. The officer, simply identified as Read more…


Gunmen on Thursday opened fire on a Nigeria Customs  Service (NCS) patrol team at Ozalla community near Enugu, by Four corner junction on Enugu-Port Harcourt road, killing one of the officers and leaving many injured. In a statement signed on Read more…


Gunmen numbering five in the early hours of Friday assassinated the Director of Operations of the Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS), Malam Dauda. According to Daily Trust, the attackers breached the security of the victim’s house located in Barakallahu community in Read more…


The Supreme Court has declared as unlawful and illegal, the Executive Order 10 (EO10) issued by President Muhammadu Buhari on the funding of State Judiciary and Legislature. In a split decision by the apex court, the majority of the seven-member Read more…