The Labour Party gubernatorial candidate of Kano State in next year’s elections, Bashir Ishaq Bashir, has described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government as a complete failure in the country. He said the government disappointed the Northern region and Nigeria at large, describing the eight years of Buhari in office as …
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The Katsina State government has suspended the ban placed on the night use of motorcycles. Malam Al-Amin Isah, Director-General, New Media to Gov. Aminu Masari, made the announcement in a statement he issued in Katsina. He said, “In the spirit of the current Eid-El Maulud (celebration of the birth of …
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A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday sentenced a 31-year-old student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Bashiru Azeez, to six months imprisonment over $9,891 fraud. Justice Adebayo Yusuf handed down the sentence while ruling on a fraud case instituted by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the …
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A suspected drug addict, Abdulafeez Shorinmade, has been arrested by men of the Osun State Police Command in Iwo, after stabbing to death one Rofiyat Rasaki at Kajola area of the town. Abdulafeez, who was said to have fled the scene after committing the crime, also allegedly stabbed and injured …
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The University of Ibadan is ranked first in Nigeria in the 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The University of Lagos comes second in the latest ranking. Both the UI and UNILAG are ranked 401-500th out of over 1,799 institutions across the world, the 2023 Times Higher Education World …
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The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has declared that he turned Lagos from a jungle to a megacity during his tenure as the governor of the state from 1999 to 2007. In a programme that aired on Channels TV on Friday night, Tinubu said he laid …
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Oxfam Nigeria has said that it would work with commercial financial institutions, to mainstream its members into the formal banking system to allow for inclusion of rural communities. This was made known at the organisation’s Food Hero Awards 2022 (Ogbonge Women), held in Abuja, organised in partnership with the Federal …
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Manchester United fan Francis Uzoho was just moments away from finishing one of the greatest goalkeeping displays ever seen on an apprehensive Thursday night at Old Trafford. Uzoho, in goal for Omonia Nicosia, made 12 eye-popping saves against his boyhood club, before being beaten in stoppage time by substitute Scott McTominay’s …
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The National Security Council, on Friday, said sub-national governments have no power to acquire arms and ammunition for their various security outfits. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, revealed this to State House correspondents shortly after the NSC meeting chaired by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), …
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The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has arrested one Alice Mulak for stabbing her boyfriend to death in the Karu Local Government Area of the state. The disclosure was made in aPolice statement to City Round in Lafia on Friday by the state police spokesperson, DSP Ramhan Nansel. The statement indicated, …
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