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The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has dissolved the State Executive Council. The dissolution is with immediate effect. Those affected include the Sabi’u Baba, Secretary to the State Government; the governor’s Chief of Staff, Ladan Salihu, 21 Commissioners, and Special Advisers. Details later….
No fewer than 27 mourners were Sunday evening reportedly gunned down and several others sustained injuries when suspected armed herders stormed the Odugbeho community in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue state during a burial ceremony. Vanguard gathered from a source in the area that the marauders invaded and surrounded the community at about […]
Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, on Monday, said the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will be passed before the end of June, 2021 by the National Assembly. PIB, which is targeted to open up the nation’s oil and gas industry, has spent twenty years on the floor of both chambers Lawan said the Senate […]
The Kaduna State Government said troops of 4Demo Battalion of the Nigerian Army have repelled an attempted attack by bandits on some locations along Kaduna-Zaria highway. According to a statement issued on Monday in Kaduna by the state Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, several bandits were neutralised by the […]
A low magnitude tremor was witnessed in Nigeria at the weekend originating around Omu-Aran in Kwara state. The tremor, according to Professor Adepelumi Abraham of the Department of Geophysics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun, where the phenomenon was recorded, the tremor has a focal depth of 15 kilometres. The report titled, […]
The federal government has given a condition to lift its indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria. The minister of foreign affairs Geoffrey Onyema in a meeting with some envoys said that Twitter’s operations in Nigeria will be restored only if the platform can be used “responsibly”. Asked when the ban will be lifted, Onyeama […]
The Onion Producers and Marketers Association (OPMAN) says it is discontinuing the supply of onions to the entire South from Monday, citing insecurity and the government’s failure to compensate its members who suffered losses in the past. Aliyu Isa, the national president of the association, disclosed this when addressing journalists at a press briefing […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 11 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 166, 767. The centre said the 11 new infections were recorded in Lagos with nine cases, the FCT-one and Kano-one. The NCDC also said that there are 1, 544 active […]
A United Nigeria Airline aircraft on a flight number U50515 from Port Harcourt to Abuja airport yesterday made air return to Port Harcourt on almost getting to Abuja after running into turbulence at Abuja. Mr Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu, Head, Corporate Communications, United Nigeria Airline, in a statement yesterday said : ” A United Nigeria flight […]
Hundreds of members of the Synagogue Church of All Nations on Sunday mourned the passing of the church’s General Overseer, Prophet Temitope Joshua, aka TB Joshua. TB Joshua died on Saturday after holding a service with members of the church. Joshua, who was born on June 12, 1963, died on June 5 at the […]
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