New Naira : Senate Backs CBN After Heated Debate
The Senate has resolved to provide legislative support to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the redesign of the N1,000, N500 and N200 naira notes. The upper chamber made this resolution after a heated debate on a motion moved by Senator Uba Sani on CBN’s policy to redesign the three naira notes. Majority of […]
INEC To Start Weekly Media Briefings Ahead Of 2023 elections
With 100 days to the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will start weekly media briefings to inform Nigerians on the progress made by the commission. In a statement he personally signed on Wednesday, the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu said the commission will start with biweekly briefing and later progress […]
Yobe: Husband starves wife for one year
A middle-aged woman, Sadiya has been rescued after her husband allegedly detained her in his house for one year without food in Nguru town, Yobe State. The impoverished victim, who is a mother of four children, is from Kano State. Report says that Sadiya’s biological mother, Hadiza, rescued her daughter from the excruciating condition last […]
Tinubu’s Prayers, “God Bless PDP” Prophetic -PDP
…Insists Tinubu Ineligible to Contest Presidential Election It is instructive to note that the APC Presidential Candidate had earlier in his address, admitted that Nigerians were “in distress” under his failed APC but that hope is on the way. Since Asiwaju Tinubu’s prophetic blessing on the PDP, our Party has been receiving flurries of calls, […]
Man ordered to sweep court premises for stealing perfume
A Judge, Malam Ishaq Hassan, on Tuesday, ordered a 24-year-old man, Valentine Nmoye, to sweep the Karu Upper Area Court, Abuja’s premises for three hours for stealing three perfumes worth N4,000 from a store. Hassan gave the order after the convict pleaded guilty to the theft, and he (Hassan) warned him to desist from engaging […]
Sokoto councillor, Jamila volunteers teaching services to school, urges girl child enrolment
By Suleiman Adamu, Sokoto Concerned over low enrolment of the girl child in School, Hon. Jamila Bunu, a female councillor in Yabo local of Sokoto state has engaged in providing teaching services on volunteer agreement at the UBE Girls Model Secondary School, Yabo. Similarly she identified poverty and lack of parental interest among other fundamental […]
World population hits 8 billion — Nigeria now 6th most populous country
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs says the global population has reached an estimated 8 billion. With 216 million projected people in Nigeria, the country is home to 2.7 percent of the global population. The UN said this in its latest World Population Prospects 2022, released on Tuesday to mark World Population Day. […]
NBC fines Arise TV over fake report on Tinubu
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined Arise Television N2 million over a fake report about the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu. The TV station had aired a report that the Independent National Broadcasting Commission (INEC) was investigating Tinubu’s alleged crime bordering on narcotics and illicit drugs. A statement purportedly […]
FG mandates 8weeks training for ASUU, NLC leaders
The Federal Government has proposed a mandatory eight weeks course at the Michael Imoudu National Institute of Labour Studies for all newly elected labour leaders in the country. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this, Monday, during the budget defence of his ministry and its parastatals before the House of Representatives Committee […]
19 terrorists wanted, N5m reward on each _DHQ
The Defence Headquarters on Monday, declared 19 terrorists wanted and placed N5 million bounty on each of them. The details of the 19 terrorists are contained in a poster released by the Director, Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Jimmy Akpor, on Monday in Abuja. The information on the poster revealed that the N5 million cash reward is […]