D’Tigress Breaks Record, Enters Top 10 in World Basketball Rankings

NewsNigeriaSportsD’Tigress Breaks Record, Enters Top 10 in World Basketball Rankings

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 29, 2024

Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, has soared to eighth place in the latest world rankings by the International Basketball Federation, FIBA, the governing body of basketball. With this achievement, they have become the first African team to break into the top 10. The team’s impressive outing at the Paris Olympics, where they defeated Australia and Canada, earned them a four-spot jump in the rankings. They secured their first Olympic victory in 20 years against...

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Soldier Shoots Police DPO Dead in Zamfara

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaSoldier Shoots Police DPO Dead in Zamfara

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 29, 2024

Halliru Liman, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of Wasagu Division in Kebbi State, has been killed by a soldier at a checkpoint in Zamfara State. According to ASP Yazid Abubakar, the spokesman for the Zamfara State Police Command, the incident happened on Wednesday, 28 August, when Liman was on his way to Birnin Kebbi for a meeting. He was stopped by military personnel attached to Operation Dadarin Daji in the Danmarke area of Bukkuyum Local...

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Enugu State Government Sets Up New Minimum Wage Implementation Committee

NewsNigeriaPoliticsEnugu State Government Sets Up New Minimum Wage Implementation Committee

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)August 29, 2024

The Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah has charged the Committee on Implementation of the new minimum wage for civil and public servants in the state to diligently come up with a comprehensive review of the salary chat of all categories and cadres of workers of both the state and the local government levels, the unified local government system, using the existing state salary chat as a guide. Giving the committee one month to...

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Flood: Over 170 Persons Loss Their Lives In 15 States-NEMA

NewsNigeriaFlood: Over 170 Persons Loss Their Lives In 15 States-NEMA

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 29, 2024

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said the flood has so far killed 179 persons in 15 states and displaced 208,655 others in 22 states in 2024 alone. The 2024 Flood Updates released by the agency; also said 107,652 hectares of farmland and 80,049 houses were destroyed, attributing the cause to unprecedented rainfall and the rising of Rivers Niger and Benue are mostly in the northern part of Nigeria. According to the agency, all...

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PHOTOS: Nigeria’s Defence Chief Meets with Niger Military Leadership

National SecurityNewsNigeriaPHOTOS: Nigeria’s Defence Chief Meets with Niger Military Leadership

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 29, 2024

In a move aimed at strengthening regional security, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, yesterday met with the leadership of the Niger Republic’s military junta in Niamey, the country’s capital. The meeting, which was confirmed through pictures posted by the counter-insurgency publication, Zagazola Makama, on X, was attended by top military brass from both countries.       General Musa, who is also the Chairman of the ECOWAS Committee of Defence Chiefs, was...

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Bode George To Atiku: You Can’t Contest In 2027, Wait Till 2031

NewsNigeriaPoliticsBode George To Atiku: You Can’t Contest In 2027, Wait Till 2031

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)August 29, 2024

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George has told former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that he cannot contest presidential election in 2027 but should wait till 2031. The PDP chieftain noted that even in 2027, the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 general elections would be 81 years and would be expected to embrace the President Joe Biden concept of allowing the younger generation run for the highest office...

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Adamawa Sovt Awards Construction Of Jimeta Modern Shopping Complex

BusinessNewsNigeriaAdamawa Sovt Awards Construction Of Jimeta Modern Shopping Complex

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 29, 2024

The Jimeta Modern Shopping Complex in Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa State was built in 1996 but was demolished by the state government for the construction of a new modern structure that will gulp N19.7bn. Mr Iliya James, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, while briefing Journalists Wednesday after the State Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri said the contract for the project was awarded to three different contractors with...

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President Tinubu Consoles Flood Victims Across Nigeria

NewsNigeriaPresident Tinubu Consoles Flood Victims Across Nigeria

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 29, 2024

President Bola Tinubu said on Wednesday sympathizes with all victims of flood disaster across the country, especially bereaved families, farmers, displaced communities, and those who have lost property. In a statement by Tinubu’s media aide, Ajuri Ngelale, said the President had received the news of the devastation wreaked by floods on communities and farmlands across the country with profound grief. Tinubu re-emphasized the need to build a more climate-resilient and adaptive society and as well...

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4 Years Old Girl Murdered In Nsukka, Suspect Arrested

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeria4 Years Old Girl Murdered In Nsukka, Suspect Arrested

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)August 29, 2024

Mr. Nweke Chukwuemeka, the murderer of an innocent 4 years child sleeping in her house at Orba Road in Nsukka Local Government Area has been arrested by Police Operatives serving in the Nsukka Sector of the Enugu State Command’s Anti-Cultism Tactical Squad. A statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, reveals that on Sunday 18th of August 2024, around 10:30 p.m., the Anti-Cultism Tactical Squad received a distress call about the...

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Governor Abba Orders Closure Of All MDAs Accounts

NewsNigeriaPoliticsGovernor Abba Orders Closure Of All MDAs Accounts

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 29, 2024

Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has given the Accountant General of the state one week to close all accounts belonging to all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) in the state and revert to a central billing system. The governor gave the directive Wednesday during a meeting held in the Government House with the Kano State Internal Revenue Service (KIRS) chairman and heads of MDAs. He directed all MDAs to comply with all the provisions...

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