The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has disagreed with a claim by a former Vice President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Prof. Nwoke Chijioke, that the agency’s chairman, Ola Olukoyede, subjected ex-governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to media trial. The allegation followed revelations made by Olukoyede on Tuesday about the outcomes of the…
The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, on Thursday, sealed no fewer than 751 medicine shops in the Gombe open drug market. The PCN is a Federal Government agency charged with the responsibility of regulating and controlling the education, training and practice of pharmacy in all its aspects in line with the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria Establishment…
NIGERIA joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Malaria Day on Thursday, with patients lamenting the about 23 per cent rise in the cost of antimalarial medications between November 2023 and April 2024. Though the Federal Government said it was taking steps for intervention, Nigerians still grapple with the high cost of prices…
The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has clarified that the video circulating on social media depicting alleged harassment and robbery at a traffic stop was not recorded in Nigeria. This clarification was provided in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, via his social media handle on Thursday. The statement disclosed that…
No fewer than 6.9 million candidates sat the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination between 2019 and 2022 with only 2.03 million of them admitted into tertiary various institutions while 4.87 million candidates failed to secure admission. Among the 4.87 million candidates, who failed to secure admission, are 4,385 candidates who scored 300 and above out of…
The Kebbi Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted about 6,240 pieces of cap-sensitive dynamite explosives along the Yauri-Jega Road. The Area Comptroller of Customs, Iheanacho Ojike, said the dynamites were intercepted by the joint border patrol team of Customs, Army, police, Immigration and the Department of State Services while on intelligence-based patrol…
SCORES of demonstrators on Thursday stormed the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja, to demand the resignation of the National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje. The protesters hinged their request on the recent suspension of Ganduje by a faction of his ward executive and the bribery allegation levelled against him by the Kano…
THE Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Fr. Matthew Kukah, has expressed worry about what he described as declining diversity and meritocracy in Nigerian universities. He said he found that public universities in the North are not open to the idea of having churches built on their campuses. Kukah said this on Thursday…
A former deputy governor of Ondo State, Mr Agboola Ajayi, on Thursday, emerged as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state ahead of the November 16 governorship election in the state. Ajayi, a former deputy governor to the late governor Rotimi Akeredolu, beat six other aspirants to the PDP governorship ticket…
Members of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Agbo Jesu Conference Worldwide, have described the late Spiritual Head, Samuel Abidoye as a ‘leader whose footsteps have left an incredible mark on the Cherubim & Seraphim Church Worldwide’. The church, in a statement on Thursday by the Chairman, USA/Canada C&S, Agbo Jesu Sub-Conference, Francis Okhiria, extolled the…
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Thursday, urged aggravated aspirants in the last Saturday’s Ondo State governorship primary to drop their petitions against Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, who won the poll. This was as aggrieved members of the APC, under the aegis of Ondo APC youths, on Thursday, besieged the party…
The Nigerian Navy said it has concluded arrangements to relocate the Naval Training Command headquarters from Lagos to Onne in Rivers State. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla, disclosed this when he led a delegation of top officers of Navy High Command on a courtesy visit to the Rivers State…
