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High-profile rugby league star Jarryd Hayne was reportedly arrested by Australian police Monday over sex assault allegations, the second incident to be raised against the player. Hayne, 30, was being questioned by New South Wales Police over an alleged incident in the Hunter region north of Sydney on the night of the National Rugby League […]
Kano State Fire Service says fire destroyed 77 temporary shops at KasuwarKurmi Market in Kano. Spokesman of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Saidu Mohammed told journalist in Kano that 70 of the shops were razed down completely. Mohammed said that 70 of the shops were completely razed down while seven shops were saved due to […]
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom says he has forgiven those who plotted to illegally impeach him as governor. He said this during a thanksgiving service at St. Mary’s Catholic Parish, North Bank Makurdi in honour of him as well as the Majority Leader of the State House of Assembly, AvineAgbom. He further stated that though […]
Scores of operatives from the Counter Terrorism Unit of the Imo State police command blocked the Owerri/Orlu road in the state capital in protest. Narrating their ordeal to journalists in Owerri, one of the policemen said, they have been pushed out of their quarters on Orlu road by the management of Federal Medical Center, Owerri. Meanwhile, […]
Federal Government has declared Tuesday, November 20th, 2018, as a public holiday. The public holiday is to mark the Eid-El Maulud celebration. Minister of Interior, Lieutenant General Abdurrahman Dambazau who made the announcement also called on Muslim faithful to align themselves with the prophet’s teachings which border on piety, charity, tolerance and peaceful co-existence, among […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to overhaul the education sector if he is re-elected as president in 2019. As part of efforts to do so, he says his administration will remodel 10,000 schools every year. The president said this at an event tagged ‘The Next Level’, to mark the launch of his campaign ahead of […]
Captain Ahmed Musa and 21 other players took part in the Super Eagles’ training on Tuesday at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, the Delta State capital. This is in preparation for Saturday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying match against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg. […]
Debt Management Office says Federal Government has borrowed a total of two point thirty-two trillion Naira in 2017 to fund deficit in the budget. Debt Management Office said this in its 2017 Annual Report obtained in Abuja. According to Debt Management Office, the total amount was borrowed from both the domestic and the foreign debt […]
Nigeria Police Force have replaced ANTHONY OGBIZI with CHRIS EZIKE as the new Commissioner of Police in Abia state. EZIKE had served in the Department of Research and Planning, Community Policing, Force Headquarters, Abuja, and also as the commissioner of police in imo state. Speaking at the formal handover, EZIKE said that he will partner with […]
Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to ending Boko Haram insurgency, saying it will ensure that the menace was completely eliminated. President Muhammadu Buhari stated this at the opening of the International Conference on Insurgency in Kano State. Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazau, said the government was determined […]
