Fire Razes 620 Houses At IDP Camp In Maiduguri, Child Lost Life, Two Old Women Injured

NewsNigeriaFire Razes 620 Houses At IDP Camp In Maiduguri, Child Lost Life, Two Old Women Injured

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 19, 2021

A fire outbreak has razed down six hundred and twenty (620) houses completely at Custom House IDP camp in the outskirt of Maiduguri metropolis, Borno state, killing a child, while two old women sustained injuries in the inferno. It was gathered that the fire outbreak which started around 8:30 am consumed parts of the camp but was put off by the combined efforts of the IDPs, security agents and officials of the federal and state...

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Nigeria Labour Congress Declares Strike In 18 States

LabourNewsNigeriaNigeria Labour Congress Declares Strike In 18 States

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 19, 2021

The Nigeria Labour Congress has directed workers in 18 states where the national minimum wage of N30, 000 had yet to be paid to immediately proceed on strike. The states that have not paid the minimum wage include Imo, Osun, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Kwara, Zamfara, Gombe, Rivers, and Ogun States. Congress said about half the 36 states of the federation were yet to conclude negotiations on payment of the minimum wage. This was contained in a...

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96,000 Pupils To Benefit From Home Grown School Feeding Programme In Kwara

EducationFoodNewsNigeria96,000 Pupils To Benefit From Home Grown School Feeding Programme In Kwara

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 19, 2021

ILORIN — No fewer than 96,000 pupils in classes one to three are to benefit from the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) in Kwara. Mrs. Basheera AbdulRazaq, the Kwara Focal Person for the National Social Investments Programmes (NSIP), disclosed this on Thursday in Ilorin at one-day training for independent monitors. No fewer than 100 independent monitors attended the programme “No fewer than 4,500 rural women have been medically screened and are ready for the...

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Federal and State Governments Vouch to Protect all Non-indigenous Communities

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsNigeriaFederal and State Governments Vouch to Protect all Non-indigenous Communities

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 19, 2021

Lingering insecurity in some parts of the country, the National Economic Council after a critical review of the security situation in the country, under the chairmanship of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN resolved to made effort towards the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of all perpetrators of crime in the country while both the States and Federal governments would ensure the full protection of all Nigerians wherever they reside. According to the resolution of the Council,...

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Rural Electrification Scheme: Power Ministry Commissions Electricity in Adamawa

NewsRural Electrification Scheme: Power Ministry Commissions Electricity in Adamawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 18, 2021

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Rural Electrification Agency (REA) of the Federal Ministry of Power, Ahmad Salihijo Ahmed said the federal government is poised to ensure the deployment of equitable electricity to rural dwellers across every nook and cranny of Nigeria. Salihijo disclosed this during the commissioning of a 30KWp solar hybrid mini grid project at Mbela-Lagaje community in Mayo Belwa Local government of Adamawa state. “Powering this community is another testament...

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Insecurity: Northern Governors Vows to Protect Lives and Properties

NewsNigeriaInsecurity: Northern Governors Vows to Protect Lives and Properties

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 18, 2021

Governor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State restated that Governors of the Northern states would protect the lives and properties of everyone living in their areas of jurisdiction no matter where he comes from. The Governor disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in the Government House Yola shortly after condoling with Governor Umaru Fintiri over the recent death of some prominent sons and daughters of Adamawa. He called on their colleagues especially in the...

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Buhari Dispatches Search Party as Gunmen Abduct 27 students; kill one in North-Central

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaBuhari Dispatches Search Party as Gunmen Abduct 27 students; kill one in North-Central

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

Gunmen have killed a student and abducted 27 others in a night-time raid on their boarding school at Government Science Secondary School, Kagara Niger state in the North-central Nigeria. Niger state Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello who confirmed the incident said three members of staff and 12 of their relatives were also abducted. The Principal of the school Danasabe Ubaidu, said about 600 boys were asleep in their dormitories when the school during the raid. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu...

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Government to install CCVs on Major Highways Across the Country to tackle Kidnapping

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaGovernment to install CCVs on Major Highways Across the Country to tackle Kidnapping

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

Muhammad Dingyadi, Minister of Police Affairs said machinery had been set in motion to install Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras on all major highways across the country as a measure towards curtailing kidnapping. He said the project would be a public-private partnership scheme. Dingyadi on Channels Television breakfast programme, “Sunrise Daily” said “President Muhammadu Buhari already gave approval for the project, and an agreement had been brokered with NPS Technology Company to revamp an abandoned...

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INEC receives 9,777 requests for the establishment of additional polling units

NewsNigeriaPoliticsINEC receives 9,777 requests for the establishment of additional polling units

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

The National Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday, disclosed that as of February 15, the commission had received 9,777 requests from across the country for the establishment of additional polling units. Yakubu made the disclosure when he visited the offices of the Arewa Consultative Forum office, in Kaduna, for consultation on creating additional polling units in the country. He said the requests, which were 5,700 as of October, 2020, had...

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Nigeria: Borno State Government Seals-off Eight NGO Offices

LocalNewsNigeriaNigeria: Borno State Government Seals-off Eight NGO Offices

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

Borno state government has sealed eight offices and guest houses occupied by development partners for not updating their property records in different locations in Maiduguri metropolis. The offices locked include that of International Non-Governmental Organizations and local NGOs. Speaking to newsmen shortly after a Special Enforcement Operation, Executive Secretary Borno Geographic Information Service, BOGIS, Alhaji Adam Bababe said out of the 183 International and local NGOs operating in the state, only 21 are duly registered....

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