FG Sets Up Committee To Investigate Jos Building Collapse That Killed 22 Pupils
A high-powered committee has been set up by the federal government to probe the collapse of the Saint Academy building in the Busa Buji community of Jos North. The unfortunate incident which took place on Friday, July 12, 2024, resulted in the deaths of 22 school children, with many others sustaining injuries. The committee was inaugurated in Jos by the Director...
Court Dismisses Suit Challenging Inscription Of Arabic Language On Naira Notes
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday dismissed a suit challenging the use of Arabic inscriptions on Naira notes. Justices Yellin Bogoro held that Section 53 (1) of the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA) empowers the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to print, design and issue the currency and compels the need to establish bad faith...
After Niger Governor Allegedly Ordered Security Aides To Slap, Arrest Cleric, State Govt Makes Clarification
The Niger State Government has clarified a viral video of the state governor, Mohammed Bago, seen ordering security personnel to slap a man during the Fidua prayer for the late wife of the deputy governor, Zainab Yakubu. The video which went viral on Saturday captured Bago speaking in Hausa and ordering a security operative to slap the man and arrest...
FG Vows To Ensure Food Availability For All Nigerians, Donates 20 Trucks Of Rice To Abia, Others
The Federal Government has donated 20 trucks of rice to the 36 state governors, including Abia and the federal capital territory for onward distribution to Nigerians. Addressing state House Reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Monday, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the rice is for the most vulnerable Nigerians. He also said the Tinubu administration...
Another Building Collapses In Abuja, Four Rescued
Four people have been rescued after a section of a two-storey residential apartment collapsed in Abuja on Saturday morning, with several people trapped in the rubble. This comes less than 24 hours after a school building collapsed on pupils in Plateau State, killing 22 and injuring one hundred and thirty-two persons. It is also eleven days after another building collapsed at...
Plateau School Collapse Deaths Huge Loss To Nigeria — President Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has expressed grief over the news of the tragic collapse of a school building, which resulted in multiple deaths and many surviving victims in Jos, Plateau State, with profound grief. According to a statement issued on Friday by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), the President described the unfortunate incident as a huge...
Tinubu Sympathises With Victims Of Jos Building Collapse, Says It’s A Huge Loss
President Bola Tinubu has sympathised with the victims of the Plateau building collapse over the incident he labelled as a “huge loss to the nation”. About 132 persons were injured and 22 others were confirmed dead following Friday’s tragic collapse of the two-storey structure in a school in the Busa Buji, Jos North Local Government Area of the state. While consoling...
Corps Members Narrowly Escape Death As NYSC Hostel Collapses In Ekiti
Some Corps members deployed to Ekiti State narrowly escaped death on Friday morning when the wall of the female hostel of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp collapsed on them. The corp members recuperating in the clinic inside the orientation camp were said to have been rescued by their male counterparts who retrieved them from the rubbles. One of the...
Despite Public Outcry Governor Signs Law Weakening Sultan Of Sokoto’s Power
Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has given assent to the Sokoto Local Government and Chieftaincy Law, which stripped Alhaji Sa`ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, of the power to appoint district and village heads in the state. The law had generated controversy across the country as many were opposed to it. Speaking on Thursday after signing six Executive Bills recently...
Ex-minister, Saleh Mamman, Collapses Outside Courtroom As Money Laundering Case Begins
Former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, collapsed outside the courtroom on Thursday at a Federal High Court, Abuja, due to ill health. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mamman, whose plea was fixed for Thursday morning, collapsed outside the courtroom before the case was called. The former minister’s counsel, Femi Ate, SAN, told Justice James Omotosho shortly when he was...
