Terrorists Feared Killed In Katsina As Police Retrieves Motorcycles, AK-47
Many terrorists were feared killed in Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State on Wednesday when a team of police operatives engaged the hoodlums numbering over 30 in a fierce gun duel. One AK-47 and four operational vehicle used by the terrorists were also recovered from the scene of the attack, Katsina Police Spokesman, SP Gambo Isah said. According to the...
Gov. Zulum Appoints New Accountant General
Governor Babagana Zulum has approved the appointment of Baba Bura Usman as Borno State’s new Accountant General. The appointment was announced by the Governor’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement on Wednesday. Usman was, until his appointment, the Director of Treasury Operations at the Borno State Ministry of Finance, Budget and Planning, since 2020, Gusau said. Fifty-seven years old Usman who hails from...
Insecurity: Nasarawa State Govt Orders Reopening Of Schools
Nasarawa State has approved the reopening of its primary and secondary schools, which shut 49 days earlier on reports of threats of insecurity. All boarding public and private schools shall resume on Sunday, September 18, for the First Term of the 2022/2023 academic session, while day schools shall resume on Monday, September 19. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Malam...
2023 Election: INEC Reveals Plans To Check Vote-Buying
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has said the Commission is mapping out measures to check vote buying in the 2023 general polls. Promising that the forthcoming polls would be better than the recent Ekiti and Osun governorship polls, he insisted that the establishment of the Electoral Offences Commission and Tribunal will check vote buying...
Gov. Akeredolu’s Mother Dies At 90
The mother of the Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Evangelist Grace Akeredolu, is dead, aged 90. In a statement made available to journalists by the chief press secretary (CPS) to the governor, Richard Olatunde, Akeredolu’s mother died peacefully in her sleep early Thursday morning. According to the statement, the mother of the governor is survived by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and...
We Are Not Responsible For High Rise In Exchange Rate – Customs
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that its clearance system was not responsible for the rise in the exchange rate. The NCS Spokesman, Timi Bomodi (DC), explained yesterday, that the rate of exchange used to calculate duty payrnents was not a static phenomenon and that the Central Bank of Nigeria remained the only organization vested with the authority to...
Police Officers Kill 3 Alleged Kidnappers In Edo, Rescues Child
The police command in Edo on Wednesday said it rescued a one-year-old baby and killed three alleged kidnappers on the Benin-Auchi Road. This is contained in a statement by ASP Jennifer Iwegbu, Deputy Police Public Relations Officer of the command. “Distress call was raised by distraught residents of Achigbor Community along Benin- Auchi Road in Uhunmwonde LGA of Edo State at...
Ekiti High Court Sentences Man To Life Imprisonment For Raping Nine-Year-Old Girl
An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 31-year-old Okada rider, Idowu Adebayo, to life imprisonment for raping a nine-year-old girl. The defendant was first arraigned on one charge bordering on rape before Justice Olalekan Olatawura in March, 2022. The charge read, “That the defendant on October 8, 2021 at Ilogbo Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of...
Calling For Ayu’s Resignation Is Achievable – Atiku Abubakar
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has stated that the demand by some political big wigs in his party, calling for the resignation of the National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, is achievable. Atiku disclosed this when he met with PDP stalwarts in Ibadan, on Wednesday. Wike had faulted the emergence of Atiku as the presidential...
We Will Win 14m Votes For Tinubu, Says Group
As the presidential election draws nearer, a group under the auspices of South-West Agenda for Asiwaju, has pledged to win 14 million votes for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress Asiwaju, Ahmed Tinubu in the election. To achieve this, the group urged its members in all the 18 Local Government Areas of Ondo State to start mobilising support for the APC Presidential-hopeful...
