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FG acquires 21 Fire Fighting vehicles for efficiency, effective service

NewsDeskNgOct 12, 2023October 12, 20230

By Palma Ileye Federal Government through the Ministry of Interior, has acquired 21 Fire Fighting trucks to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in providing safety to Nigerians. Speaking at the commissioning ceremony held at the Headquarters of Federal Fire Service, Abuja, FFS, the Minister of Interior Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo who commissioned...

Tinubu appoints Olukoyede as new EFCC chairman, Hammajoda Secretary

NewsDeskNgOct 12, 2023October 12, 20230

President Bola Tinubu had approved the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede to serve as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation. The appointment, according to the presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale in a...

SCI calls for strategies to address climate change, gender equality

NewsDeskNgOct 12, 2023October 12, 20230

Save the Children International (SCI), Nigeria in commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child has called for better strategies to address the intersection of climate change and gender equality to ensure a brighter and more sustainable future that safeguard the rights of girls in the face of climate...

Court Declares Seizure Of Nigerian’s UK Investment Illegal, Orders Enforcement Of Judgement

NewsDeskNgOct 12, 2023October 12, 20230

Justice Adegbola Adeniyi of the High Court Justice of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has ordered the enforcement of the judgement of the court granted against British Government over planned takeover of business interest of billionaire Nigerian businessman and chairman of AITEO, Mr Benedict Peters. Justice Adeniyi, in his ruling,...

Rivers State Woman Pours Hot Groundnut Oil On Her Husband Over Argument

NewsDeskNgOct 12, 2023October 12, 20230

Hope Nwala from Obite1 community attacks her husband; Ekelediri Nwankwo in Okehi community in Etche Local government area with hot groundnut oil and hammer. “I have told my wife’s younger sister to leave my house because of the way she has started dressing, and the way she occupy my matrimonial...

Kogi: Boy Buries Alive by Elder Brother for Stealing N1,000 Rescued

NewsDeskNgOct 12, 2023October 12, 20230

A little boy was rescued in Apamisede area of Lokoja on Tuesday after he was buried alive by his elder brother. The elder brother, who was caught by neighbours, said he buried the boy alive after their mother directed him to punish the boy for stealing N1,000. The case has...

Engineer Sule speaks on efforts to secure release of four kidnapped students

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2023October 11, 20230

Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, said his administration is in touch with kidnappers that abducted four female students at the Nasarawa State University Keffi, adding that security agents are gearing efforts to secure the release of the four female students. Engineer Sule made this known when he presided over...

Open Letter To Peter Obi

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2023October 11, 20230

By Lauretta Onochie Dear Peter Obi, You have shamelessly just gone on national TV to call on the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to reveal his identity to Nigerians and the world. This is the most idiotic request, Nigerians have had the misfortune of hearing from one, whose advisers...

Atiku’s aide knocks BBC over jaundiced report

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2023October 11, 20230

…Lampoons Tinubu over failure to hold FEC meetings Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communications, Phrank Shaibu, has lambasted the BBC over its fact-check report wherein it stated that there was no evidence to show that President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University was forged. In a statement...

Otu backs new UKaid agric, climate change programme

NewsDeskNgOct 11, 2023October 11, 20230

Governor Bassey Otu has given the commitment of his government to partner with the new UKaid-funded climate change programme in Nigeria, Propcom+. The programme is aimed at supporting agroforestry initiatives targeting at improving climate resilience and incomes of smallholder farmers in the state through new agroforestry and sustainable land use...