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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Women group inaugurated to promote political participation

NewsNigeriaPoliticsWomen group inaugurated to promote political participation

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 28, 2024

A coordinating group to promote the development of a National Action Plan for Women’s Political Participation in Nigeria has been launched. The initiative collaborates with a non-governmental organization, BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, and the National Democratic Institute. The Deputy Country Director of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Francis Madugu, while speaking at the inauguration in Abuja, stressed the importance of inclusive participatory democracy in enabling women to take their rightful positions. “In Nigeria, about...

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Nigeria Has 40 Confirmed Cases Of Mpox – NCDC

HealthNewsNigeriaNigeria Has 40 Confirmed Cases Of Mpox – NCDC

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 28, 2024

A report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) shows that Nigeria has 40 confirmed cases of the current Mpox outbreak spread to 30 local government areas in 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The states with the confirmed cases are Bayelsa (5) Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Cross River (4 cases each), Benue (3), Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Delta, Anambra, Rivers, Plateau (2 each); Nasarawa, Lagos, Zamfara, Kebbi, Oyo, Abia, Imo,...

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Afenifere Calls For Regionalisation Of NYSC, Enforcement Of Terrorism Prohibition Act, 2022 

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaAfenifere Calls For Regionalisation Of NYSC, Enforcement Of Terrorism Prohibition Act, 2022 

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)August 28, 2024

…Hails Release Of kidnapped Medical Students, NYSC Members Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba cultural and socio-political organisation has called for the regionalisation of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme and the enforcement of terrorism prohibition Act, 2022. The socio-political organisation also lamented the resurgence of kidnapping in Ekiti, Ogun, Oyo, South-East and parts of the North. It hailed the release of the graduates who were kidnapped on their way from Akwa Ibom to Sokoto State where...

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Nigeria Deports Zimbabwean Cleric for Using Tourist Visa to Participate in Church Election

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNigeria Deports Zimbabwean Cleric for Using Tourist Visa to Participate in Church Election

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 28, 2024

The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has ordered the immediate repatriation of a Zimbabwean cleric, Eben Nhiwatiwa, for allegedly violating immigration laws. This was disclosed in a statement by the NIS Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Udo, on Wednesday in Abuja. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Nhiwatiwa was arrested by NIS operatives on 24 August in Yola, Adamawa, for allegedly breaching immigration protocols. The cleric, who entered Nigeria on 21 August with a Tourist Visa...

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Nigeria Receives 10,000 Mpox Vaccines from US Government

HealthNewsNigeriaNigeria Receives 10,000 Mpox Vaccines from US Government

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 28, 2024

The Federal Government has received 10,000 doses of the Mpox vaccine from the United States Government to support its efforts in containing the outbreak of the disease in the country. The vaccines were handed over to the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA, by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, on Monday. Speaking at the handover ceremony, Ambassador Richard Mills said, “We are pleased to know that this is a timely donation that...

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Soludo’s APGA Steps up Fight with Njoku’s led APGA, Seals State office in Awka

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSoludo’s APGA Steps up Fight with Njoku’s led APGA, Seals State office in Awka

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)August 27, 2024

Governor Soludo’s supported faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance – APGA, which is not recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission – INEC, has stepped up its onslaught against Chief Edozie Njoku’s led APGA on Tuesday, following the sealing of the State office of the party in Awka. The Njoku-led APGA State office located at no 8, road 1, Udoka Housing Estate in Awka, was sealed by the Anambra State Housing Development Corporation, on...

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Sir Paul Chukwuma Resumes Consultation, Visits to Chief Udobi’s Palm Plantation

NewsNigeriaSir Paul Chukwuma Resumes Consultation, Visits to Chief Udobi’s Palm Plantation

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)August 27, 2024

Sir Paul Chukwuma, the former National Auditor of the All Progressives Congress – APC, Founder of Olivia University, Burundi, and Pro-Chancellor of Benue State University, has reignited his political machinery as he resumes political consultation. Chukwuma, adjudged as a major APC aspirant with enormous quality ahead of next year’s Anambra’s governorship election, had suspended all his political activities about a month ago, in honour of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah who before his sudden demise was also...

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