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By Ibe Pascal, Owerri An Igbo youth leader, from Imo state, Comrade Igboayaka O Igboayaka, on Sunday alleged that one hundred and seventy buildings have been set ablaze and fifty persons killed in Imo state, for the past two weeks. Igboayaka disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, on the issue...

…facilitates for former principal to buy car Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule said he set up the Wing Commander Abdullahi Ibrahim Vocational and Technical Institute Lafia, as appreciation for what technical education has done to him. Engineer Sule made this known while speaking at the emergency congress of the...

Ibe Pascal, Owerri The former spokesperson of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Imo State, Collins Opuruozor has opened up on why he and other six working committee members of the opposition party in the State defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC Last week. Recall that last week Sunday,...

The Nigeria Immigration Service says about 97,000 passport booklets issued remained uncollected in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. This, it said, was due to third party applications and instances where some people dropped wrong contact information during their application. The NIS Public Relations Officer, Mr Tony Akuneme,...

STATEMENT In an effort to reposition the Nigerian Army (NA) for operational efficiency and functional administration, the Chief of Army Staff ( COAS) Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja has approved the posting and appointment of some senior officers of the Nigerian Army (NA) to command, instructional and staff appointments across NA...

Borno State will collaborate through some initiatives that will give farmers in Borno State increased and safe access to their farmlands this rainy season, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has said. Zulum stated this at Keleri, a town in the outskirt of Maiduguri, located along Maiduguri-Mafa-Dikwa- Gamboru Highway. The governor spoke...

At least eight people mostly youths have been killed in a fresh Boko Haram attack in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State, official says. Daily Trust Saturday had earlier reported how insurgents attacked and slaughtered 15 persons including farmers at Molai outskirts on Maiduguri last week. It was gathered...

There are indications that no fewer than 30 buildings have been destroyed and over 50,000 persons displaced in the gully erosion ravaging communities in Onitsha Inland, Onitsha North Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was gathered that the problem, which began in 2019, had so far caused some damage...

President Bola Tinubu, on Friday in Paris, France, described Nigeria’s financial system under the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, as “rotten.” He cited the difficulty in the flow of forex in and out of the country, saying it enriched a few people while impoverishing the...

Controversial Catholic priest and director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka has apologised on behalf of bishops, priests and pastors for using the church of God as political arena during the 2023 elections. Mbaka expressed sadness that the church was turned into campaign centres and into a place...