Month: June 2019

Gunmen have attacked Chunku Community in Wukari Local Government Area (LGA) of Taraba State, burning a police station and some houses. According to the Spokesman of the State Police Command, DSP David Misal, who spoke to Channels television, the fracas was a reprisal from the Tivs on the Jukuns. “The fracas all started when a…

THE Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has called for establishment of Fulani Youth Vigilante body in communities of the south east, to compliment its host community counterparts and other constituted security apparatus in the zone. The cattle breeders made the request just as the South east Governors told them that nobody in…

The Nigeria Immigration Service will on June 25, roll-out the enhanced 10-year validity e-passport at the Ikoyi Passport office, Lagos. NIS Public Relations Officer, Mr Sunday James, made this known in a statement in Abuja, on Thursday. James said in view of the exercise, the service would shut down the existing payment platform for the…

Dr Festus Adedayo, who was appointed Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President of the Senate on Tuesday, has been dropped. A statement from Office of President of the Senate on Thursday in Abuja, said that it reviewed the appointment of Adedayo and rescinded its earlier decision on it. The statement was signed by…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan and House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila will be facing their first major test as heads of the two chambers next month when some of their closest associates will be slugging it out to fill the remaining principal offices in the National Assembly. In contention are the positions of Senate Majority…

Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, governor of Kwara state, says the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in the state is not fit for human living. Abdulrazaq said this at the swearing in ceremony of the NYSC 2019 Batch ‘B’ Stream 1 set at Yikpata orientation camp in Edu local government area of the state. The governor…

There is too much focus on financial corruption but the truth is that nepotism is a more serious problem, he said: Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has commended the All Progressives Congress administration under President Muhammadu Buhari for stepping up the fight against corruption in the country in a…

Eleven out of the 31 elected members of the 9th Bauchi State House of Assembly have elected Abubakar Suleiman as the Speaker of the House. Suleiman, the Member representing Ningi Central Constituency (APC), emerged unopposed. Also elected was Danlami Kawule representing Zungur/Galambi as the Deputy Speaker. Details later. The Punch

A Kaduna State High Court on Wednesday ruled  that the state had no right  to screen and issue licences to preachers in the state. But Justice Hajaratu Gwadah  ruled  that the state government had the right to regulate religious activities in the state. The judgement was  delivered in suit filed by the Pentecostal Fellowship of…

A 28-year-old woman, Suliat on Wednesday told her husband, Lateef, that she would only consent to his request for the dissolution of their marriage if he returns her virginity and good health, as she was two years ago before the union. Suliat stated her conditions before an Iseyin Grade C Customary Court, where the husband…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday  extended  the tenure of the Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris. The announcement was made in a statement signed by the Director, Communications, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Wunmi Ogunmosunle, on behalf of the Head of the Civil Service of the…