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…
Ahead of the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday, unveiled its campaign council. It comes a day after the Independent National Electoral Commission declared electioneering campaigns opened as from Wednesday. In a statement on Thursday, the Edo State Organising Secretary, Tony Anenih (Jnr.), said the PDP Campaign…
Toops of the Nigerian Army have dismantled their tents and withdrawn from communities in Niger State following the recent deadly ambush by terrorists, leading to the killing of six military personnel. Two officers and four soldiers lost their lives last Friday in the Allawa community in the Shiroro Local Government Area of the state during…
A Nigerian social media entrepreneur, Clara Kronborg, has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest interviewing. Kronborg, who grew up in Onitsha, a metropolitan city in Anambra State, shattered the record with an average time of 55 hours and 24 seconds, beating the previous record holder, Rob Oliver from the United States, who did…
The Commissioner for the Lagos State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Tolani Alli-Balogun, has said the state government will be paying N1.5bn to register 58,000 students for the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for this year. The commissioner said this on Thursday while reporting the activities of the ministry in commemoration of…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Thursday held a valedictory court session in honour of Late Justice Theresa Orji-Abadua, a presiding judge at the Benin Court of Appeal, until her death. The session which was attended by legal luminaries across Nigeria, extolled the late justice for her exemplary life and dedication to her work….