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By Augustine Aminu The General Officer Commanding 8 Division Nigerian Army cum Commander Joint Taskforce North West Operation HADARIN DAJI, Major General Godwin Mutkut has tasked junior level Commanders to utilize acquired training for operational efficiency in the field. The GOC gave the charge while addressing participants during the opening...

The Kano State Hisbah Board has warned tricyclists, also known as Keke riders, against pasting posters of nude persons people on their vehicles. Commander General of the board, Sheikh Harun Ibn-Sina, gave the warning while addressing the press in his office, while noting that the act of indiscipline was contrary...

The Enugu State Government has applauded the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) for its recent interventions in the state.  The state government made the commendation through the Third National Fadama Development Additional Financing Project.  The REA is an agency of government with a mandate to provide all rural-dwelling Nigerians access to...

The Adamawa state governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri on Monday swore in Justice Hafsat Abdulrahman as the first female chief judge of the state. Governor Fintiri charged her to commit to dispensation of justice without fear or favour. She was first appointed Acting Chief of Judge of Adamawa state in December...

President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), for living up to its constitutional role of securing the nation, while noting that the investments of the government in the NAF in acquiring new platforms and other support equipment for the military and other security agencies, as well as...

One hundred and twenty-nine Nigerians fleeing war-torn Sudan arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Monday. According to the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission in a statement shared via its Twitter handle, the 129 evacuees are the eighth batch bringing to a total of 1,600 evacuees so far....

A fuel-laden tanker has fallen and spilled its content around the Ibafo area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday morning causing gridlock on both sides of the expressway. According to a source in the Federal Road Safety Corps, the crash occurred as a result of the driver’s fatigue and loss...

A Sport Utility Vehicle crushed a tricycle carrying a family of four along Isheri-Igando road in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State on Sunday killing one passenger. According to our correspondent, the driver of the SUV, which was speeding towards the Igando area of the community, lost control...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday attended the burial of Pa Abraham Joseph Michael Diri, the father of the Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri. Also in attendance to bid farewell to the Bayelsa governor’s late father were former President Goodluck Jonathan, the presidential candidate of...