Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno has launched the sale of fertiliser and free distribution of farm inputs to vulnerable farmers across the state. The exercise took place on Saturday at the Fertiliser Blending Company, Farm Centre, Maiduguri. Zulum said 75 trucks of fertiliser would be sold at a 50 per …
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THE Cross River State Government has commenced the distribution of subsidised Arabica and Robusta coffee seedlings to farmers across the state. This is contained in a statement on Saturday by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Johnson Ebokpo. He said the initiative aimed to boost coffee production and improve livelihoods in …
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THE Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, July 31, 2025, arraigned one Chukwuka Onovo on a one-count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of N42m before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. The petitioner alleged that …
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Justices H. H Kereng and Abdulhamid Yakubu of the Gombe State High Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe State have convicted and sentenced five fraudsters to various jail terms. The convicts are: Illiyasu Mohammed , Dan Musa , Elisha Elkana, Nasiru Mohammed and Saidu Mohammed Laddo. Mohanmed and Musa were arraigned …
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Nigeria’s Super Falcons were on Monday this week hosted to a grand state reception at the Presidential Villa in Abuja by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in celebration of their historic victory at the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco. The elated president lavished praises, national honours, and …
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Moroccan international and Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi could be facing up to 15 years in prison after French prosecutors called for him to stand trial on rape charges. According to Le Parisien, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office on August 1, 2025, submitted a final indictment requesting that the 26-year-old be …
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UK Conservative politician Kemi Badenoch has said that she no longer identifies as Nigerian, stating that her sense of identity now lies fully with the United Kingdom. Speaking on the Rosebud podcast, Badenoch—who was born in Wimbledon to Nigerian parents and spent much of her early life in Lagos—disclosed that …
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THE Borno government plans to resettle no fewer than 5,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from five Bama communities before the end of the rainy season. Gov. Babagana Umara Zulum made this known on Friday during a courtesy visit to the Shehu of Bama, Dr Umar Kyari Umar El-Kanemi. The communities …
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THE Senate of Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU), Katsina, has approved the expulsion of about 57 students over involvement in various forms of examination malpractice. This is contained in a statement by the management, and issued in Katsina on Saturday, by Hajiya Fatima Sanda, the institution’s Head of Information and …
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THE Nigerian Army has donated an industrial water borehole to address the problem of portable water facing the Ohodo community in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area (LGA) in Enugu State. Inaugurating the borehole on Saturday, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, said that the project was a high-impact …
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