2021

••• Bags amazon role model leadership award FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has called on market men and women to leverage on the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) initiated by the Federal Government to win the war against acute poverty, especially at a time when the country is striving to recover from…

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Thursday, set aside its order of interim forfeiture on the properties of Senator Olubukola Saraki, located on 17 and 17A MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos State. The judgment came after counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Nnaemeka Omewa, and counsel for Saraki, Mr Kehinde Ogunwumiju,…

One person was feared killed in a renewed bloody brawl between Offa and Erin-Ile both of Offa and Oyun local areas of Kwara state. It was gathered that the hostilities between members of transport unions in the two local government areas allegedly started on Wednesday and escalated Thursday. There was a report of gunshots and…

Directs NIS to tighten border security Worried by the rising level of insecurity in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday charged the nation’s security agencies to up the ante in their drive towards protection of lives and property. He also directed the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to improve surveillance and control around the nation’s…

Choppers ferry weapons, food to bandits in Zamfara Why Fed Govt declared ‘no fly zone’ in state ACF calls for extension of action to Borno, Benue, Taraba The crackdown ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari on bandits, kidnappers and other criminal elements terrorising Nigerians, has been extended. Security agents have been given the order to shoot…

Following the violence that erupted in Jangebe community on Wednesday, the Zamfara State Government has imposed a dust-to-dawn curfew on the community to prevent any further breach of peace. The Commissioner for Information, Hon. Sulaiman Tunau Anka, who announced the decision of the state government in a statement issued to journalists on Thursday, said the…

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, said he had engaged with controversial Yoruba activist, Mr Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, over the demands made by Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria to lift their food blockade to Southern Nigeria. Bello spoke to journalists late on Wednesday in Abuja after the Union…

A social political group from Kogi State under the aegis of Progressives Mandate Movement PMM has thrown its weight behind the petition submitted to the anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC by the leadership of Anti-corruption Networks, detailing the allegations of financial mismanagement and corruption against Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello It…