Zamfara’s Governor Dauda Lawal has banned illegal mining in the state and also ordered security agents to shoot violators at sight. The Governor’s media aide, Malam Suleiman Idris, quoted Lawal as saying in Gusau that the order was part of measures to restore law and order. The governor noted that illegal mining had fuelled banditry…
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, told Oprah Winfrey during their interview that his relationship with Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, is ‘space’ EXCLUSIVE: Lady Colin Campbell isn’t surprised Buckingham Palace announced it was launching an investigation after a newspaper reported that a former aide had made a bullying allegation against Meghan Markle. On March 2, The Times…
By Udume Chibueze The appointment of three Deputy Comptrollers General (DCG) and three Assistant Comptrollers General (ACG) of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has received President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s approval. According to TheNigerian, the new DCGs are A Hamisu, MBA Musa, and FO Okun. K Olumoh, AB Mohammed, and A Alajogun are the new ACGs….
By Yusuf Alli on August 5, 2022. ‘Buhari lost Rivers yet won in 2015, 2019’Runner-up raises posers at meeting with candidateThe dust over the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the choice of Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as running mate by its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has not settled. Although Atiku…
By Law Mefor The escalating level of insecurity in the nation is forcing many citizens to wonder if the government can still save Nigeria. The minister of state for defence just ordered the service chiefs to relocate to the North West after militants seized two Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armoured vehicles from Nigerian forces and…
The prices of some selected food items have shot up by 30 per cent according to price checks by this reporter and the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics. Prices of food items have skyrocketed by as much as 30 per cent in many parts of Nigeria in the last one year. This increase is largely caused…
The Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party and national leader of the Kwankwasiya movement, Rabiu Kwankwaso has confirmed the party is in talk with Labour Party presidential flag-bearer, Peter Obi, over a merger.The former Kano State Governor confirmed this in an interview with BBC Hausa. There have been speculations that the NNPP and LP are…
From Jude Chinedu, Enugu A former member of Enugu State House of Assembly, Chief Obinna Okenwa, alongside 3,000 of his supporters have dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Among the decamping PDP members who complained of injustices within the party was a former chairman of Enugu South Local Government…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have temporarily suspended its presidential campaign apparently over the protracted rift between the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike. It was learnt that the campaign rally was suspended at the instance of Atiku who, party sources said, had drafted three prominent PDP stakeholders to mediate…
“Our blood has filled the streets enough. Allow those who feel they can do it, let them go and do it. We’ll be strong enough for this protest, but let us be w£ak for once. Now, as one of the leaders of this country, as one of the leaders from the south eastern region that…
