Lagos: Police find missing boy, seek to reunite him with family
Police in Lagos State are looking for family members of a boy who had been wandering around Ikorodu as he could not find his way home. Police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, stated on Saturday at Ikeja that police found 11-year-old Ogunrinde on Wednesday at Agura, Ikorodu, crying. “He claimed to have missed […]
Herders/farmers crisis in Benue politicised, says don
Former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Prof. Daniel Uza, has expressed worry that the herders and farmers crisis in Benue State was being politicized. He stated this during the investiture of Dr Andrew Amine as the 8th State Chairman of the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA), on Saturday in Makurdi. The don […]
PDP Chairman Kidnap: Edo, police to the rescue, APC condemns act
Edo State Government says it is on top of the kidnapping of the state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Tony Aziegbemi. The Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare, disclosed this in a statement issued in Benin on Saturday. Aziegbemi was kidnapped close to his GRA residence on Friday night while returning […]
State APC Chairmen promise to support Tinubu on democracy dividends
The forum of All Progressives Congress (APC) State Chairmen, has promised to work with President Bola Tinubu and Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, the party’s National Chairman to deliver democracy dividends to Nigerians. Mr Alphonsus Ogah, the spokesperson for the forum and the Cross River APC chairman, stated this after a closed-door meeting with Ganduje on Saturday […]
Mutfwang urges forgiveness as Dariye buries parents
Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State, has urged the family of former Gov. Joshua Dariye, to forgive those responsible for the death of their father as they buried their parents on Saturday. The funeral rites for the late Pa Dariye Defyan, who was kidnapped and gruesomely murdered in 2020, took place in Mushere, Bokkos Local […]
President appoints Chief Medical Directors for two Federal Medical Centres
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr. James Enimi Omietimi as Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, for an initial term of four years, and the reappointment of Professor Sa’ad Aliyu Ahmed as Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Abuja, for a second term of four […]
Tinubu appoints new NACA DG, moves agency to health ministry
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr. Temitope Ilori to serve as the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) for an initial term of four years. Also, he has approved the movement of the agency to the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Dr. Ilori is a […]
Court dissolves 14-year-old marriage over abandonment
A Shari’a Court in Kano, on Thursday, dissolved the marriage between a driver, Zakari Ghali,48 and Shamsiyya Haruna,33, on grounds of abandonment. Haruna, who lives at Unguwa Uku Quarters Kano,in her petition prayed the court to dissolve her marriage and grant her custody of her children on grounds that Ghali abandoned her and their five […]
Reps decry rising cases of oil, gas pipelines destruction
The House of Representatives has decried the recurring destruction of oil and gas pipelines in the country. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, Chairman, Special Committee on Oil Theft, condemned the act at a meeting with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Ltd. in Abuja. The engagement was to unravel the root cause of oil theft in the country […]
2 Division Nigerian Army gets new GOC
Maj.- Gen. Obinna Onubogu, on Wednesday assumed office as the 46th General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2 Division of the Nigerian Army. Lt.-Col. Polycard Okoye, Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 2 Division Nigerian Army, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Ibadan. The new GOC, who took over command from his predecessor, Maj.-Gen. […]
