Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has commended the security agencies in the state for their synergy and teamwork, which have grossly reduced the rate of crimes across the state. The Governor gave the assurance in his office on Friday when he was presented with the award won by Operation Haba Maza security outfit as the best police patrol outfit in Nigeria, by the Nigeria Police Force. In a statement through his media aide, Mamman...
Despite the reported strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja chapter, the management of the University said academic and administrative activities would continue on campus. Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, Vice Chancellor of the university, who described the strike as divisive and unnecessary during a meeting with Provosts, Deans, Directors and Heads of Academic Departments, vowed that the management would never allow the school to be crippled again. According to...
Officials of Enugu State Government Agency have demolished residents of less privileged including widows of Uzamu Isinomeh, andLandshadEmene Nike in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State. One of the victims, Ezinne Blessing Nkemjurum Oguike, a widow, told journalists alleged that some officials from the Ministry of lands and Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority ordered the demolition of their homes which they have been using for over 62 years ago. She claimed that they...
The Adamawa State chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress NLC, Comrade Emmanuel Fashe has frowned at the “degrading living standard of Nigerians” because of the federal government’s policies such as the subsidy removal, hike in electricity tariff, naira floating, among others. He made the remarks at Mahmud Ribadu Square, Yola Wednesday to mark Workers Day being celebrated annually on May 1 by Workers. “Inflation has made it impossible for salary earners to live within their...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) AND the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Katsina State chapters have made a case for the recruitment of workers to fill the existing vacancies created by the retired, dead or transferred personnel. The State NLC chairman, Comrade Hussain Yanduna made the plea yesterday in a joint address with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) during the May Day celebration held at Dikko Stadium Katsina. “Manpower gap; now and then workers are retiring, there...
A 24-year-old lady Sheba Simon was stabbed with a knife by a phone snatcher in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital near Damaturu City College in Malali Byepass around 9:30pm on Saturday, April 27, 2024. It was learned that the victim was chatting with her phone after she dropped from a commercial tricycle and was trekking home from work when the attacker stabbed her with a knife and fled with her cell phone, leaving her in a...
The Depot Chairmen Forum of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has restated that NNPC remained the exclusive importer of PMS products and refuted accusations of hoarding of PMS products leveled against its members. In a communiqué released after its recent gathering, the IPMAN depot chairmen forum emphasized that the scarcity of PMS was not a result of any actions by IPMAN or its members but rather attributed it solely to the Nigeria National...
No fewer than 6,000 Nigerian refugees from Chad and Cameroon would be repatriated. Tijani Ahmed, Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugee, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the end of a Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on the voluntary repatriation of Nigerian refugees. Ahmed said 6,000 people would be returned from Chad while the number to be repatriated from Cameroon would be determined before the start...
Climate change, unsustainable agricultural practices, and population growth have been identified as challenges facing the Northern region. This is contained in a communique read by the chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum and governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya at the end of the NSGF meeting in Kaduna on Tuesday. Part of the communique reads: “The Forum noted that Human Capital Development is critical to the progress and prosperity of the region and...
To guarantee registration and legal identity for all children in Nigeria, aligning with the vision set forth by the United Nations (UN) organization for 2030, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) is seeking a robust collaboration with UNICEF. Director General of the NOA, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, stated this during a visit by UNICEF, led by Ibrahim Siseh, Chief Child Protection Officer in Abuja. “The primary focus of the meeting was to establish a strategic alliance aimed...
