A total of forty-one individuals were arraigned before a Federal High Court in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, on Thursday (today) for allegedly engaging in illegal mining activities. Newsextra24 reports that the Federal Government, represented by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), presented the accused before Justice Uche Agomoh. They faced charges …
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OPERATIVES of the Zamfara State Police Command have arrested a suspected bandit collaborator, Nafisa Alhaji Sani, at Tsafe Local Government Area of the state. Newsextra24 reports that the state police commissioner, Shehu Muhammad Dalijan, while speaking with newsmen at the Command’s headquarters, claimed that the suspect confessed to the crime after …
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TWO pilots of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) cheated death earlier on Thursday when a Super Mushshak trainer aircraft was involved in a crash. In a statement on Thursday evening by the Director of Public Relations and Information of the NAF, AVM Edward Gabkwet, the mishap happened at about 2.35 pm. Gabkwet …
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OGUN State Commissioner of Finance, Dapo Okubadejo, has assured citizens that the government will be transparent in the distribution of the N5 billion state palliative program. Okubadejo made this statement at a discussion hosted by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Ogun state on Thursday. Newsextra24 reports that the forum …
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PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has approved the re-appointment of Dr. Vincent Isegbe as the Director-General of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS). The re-appointment is for an additional five-year term in office, Newsextra24 reports. This development was made known in a statement on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media & …
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SENEGAL’s President Macky Sall has finally scheduled Senegal’s delayed Presidential elections for March 24. According to a Reuters report, “this is following weeks of political turmoil and unrest by the Senegalese people demanding an immediate vote.” The announcement came on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting held in response to a …
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THE Federal Government has set March 2024 for the opening of the Nigeria Education Loan Fund (NELFund) portal for eligible students. The Execute Secretary of NELFund, Dr Akintunde Sawyerr, who disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, March 7, 2024, urged eligible students to register to access the loan. President Bola …
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THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for N794,000 as the new national minimum wage for workers in the South-West region of the country. The chairman of the Lagos State branch of the NLC, Funmi Sessi, made the demand during her presentation at the public hearing of the Tripartite Committee …
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By Inusa Ndahi, Damaturu THE Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Yobe State University (YSU) branch, Comrade Ahmed Ibrahim, has alleged that the inability of vested interests of few individuals in positions of authority to settle allowances of staff and maladministration have created tension within the University …
Read More »Tanze Benjamin Makam A newly appointed judge of the Nasarawa State High Court of Justice, Justice Tanze Benjamin Makam, is dead. He reportedly died on Tuesday morning after battling undisclosed ailment. Makama was appointed to the High Court of Justice in Nasarawa State on December 29, 2023. Nuhu J. Egya, …
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