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Many feared dead as explosion hit Court Road in Sabon Gari, Kano State on Tuesday. The explosion occurred near a private Winners Secondary School, destroying a residential building and affecting part of the school. The explosion occurred around 9:30 am with many schoolchildren reportedly affected. As of the time of filing this report, […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission has vowed not to extend the June 3, 2022 deadline for primaries. The commission noted that as at Monday, none of the 18 political parties had conducted their presidential primaries three weeks to the deadline. A document obtained from INEC on Monday showed that the Accord Party scheduled […]
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, May 16, 2022, arrested serving Accountant General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris in connection with the diversion of funds and money laundering activities to the tune of N80billion (Eighty Billion Naira) only. The Commission’s verified intelligence showed that the AGF raked […]
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Mr José Santos Peseiro as the new head coach of the Senior men’s national team, Super Eagles. NFF spokesperson, Ademola Olajire disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. The appointment is with immediate effect, subject to the signing of agreed terms between the NFF and Mr […]
A presidential aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and a former Vice-President of Nigeria, Ahaji Atiku Abubakar, has expressed his readiness to restructure Nigeria in order to boost national economy and security, if elected president. Atiku, who made this known during a meeting with PDP delegates on Sunday in Abia, said […]
Atiku Abubakar, a presidential hopeful has distanced himself from a tweet condemning the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a Christian 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto, who was killed for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. Atiku who is running for Presidency under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, took to Twitter […]
The Management of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State has been shut down indefinitely following the killing of a Christian female student by an irate mob. A gory video shared on social media on Thursday revealed when the female student identified as Ms. Deborah from Zuru, Kebbi State was beaten with […]
Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off their strike in the interest of students. The President made the appeal at the 19th National Productivity Day Celebration and Conferment of the National Productivity Order of Merit Award at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja. The […]
Prof Augustine Ubachukwu, Astronomy Research Group Lead, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State, said that Nigeria and some African countries will witness the first total Lunar eclipse of the year on May 16. Ubachukwu, in an interview on Wednesday with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the second eclipse is expected […]
The Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court in Umuahia which voided the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022. In a judgment on Wednesday in Abuja, a three-member panel of the court headed by Justice Hamma Akawu Barka held that the Federal High Court […]
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