Following their inauguration by the Vice-President, Senator Kashim Shettima, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday, members of the fifth board of the National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) immediately proceeded to the Hajj House headquarters of the commission to assume duty. A statement by NAHCON Assistant Director, Fatima Sanda Usara, sai...
•Aiyedatiwa Ondo State ex-commissioner for Finance, Mr. Wale Akinterinwa, has decried the alleged return of thuggery to the political space in the state. Akinterinwa, a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), alleged that the hoodlums attacked citizens, who came to welcome President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to th...
•Late Ali Hassan Mwinyi Former Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who introduced multi-party democracy to the East African nation, died yesterday aged 98, the presidency said. “I’m saddened to announce the death… around 5:30 in the evening,” President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on state television TBC1, adding that he had been receiving trea...
•Governor Alex Otti Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has explained that a number of things contributed to the delay of the 181-megawatt geometric power plant in the Aba area of the state. “This is a project that was started in 2004” during the administration of Governor Orji Uzor Kalu, Otti of the Labour Party […]
•An Airbus A-320 of the Lufthansa airline Lufthansa German Airlines, KLM, Egypt Air, Ethiopian Airlines, British Airways, Royal Air Maroc, RwandAir, and Turkish Airlines have all released all categories of low inventory tickets, following the intervention of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, (NCAA). This followed the instruction by the Nig...
•Professor Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged the government at all levels to desist from taking citizens for a fool so as to bridge the gap between leaders and the led. Soyinka, who was a guest speaker at the Punch’s 50th anniversary lecture themed ‘Recovering the Narrative,’ insisted that the government ought [&hel...
•Kaduna-Abuja highway Residents of Gonin-Gora in the troubled Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, today, barricaded the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway while protesting the abduction of an unspecified number of people in the area. The residents stormed the highway protesting and urging the government to do something over the incessant attack...
•Oloyede The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has called for ruthless sanctions against social media abusers to serve as deterrent. Oloyede also submitted that Nigeria does not need a new law to tackle social media abuse as there are relevant laws to address the challenges, reports Daily Tru...
One Adebayo Olamide Azeez, a suspected ritual killer, has revealed how he lured seven women through a dating app, “MyChat,” and killed them for ritual purposes. The 32-year-old suspect disclosed this today during a parade held at the Officers Mess, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, reports Nigerian Tribune. He informed that he was a member of a ritualist [...
•Police recruits The Senate, today, directed the Police Service Commission and the Nigeria Police Force to recruit a minimum of 10 candidates from each of the 774 local government councils in Nigeria. The directive, according to the Upper Chamber, should form part of its annual recruitment processes, reports Channels TV. The resolution was rea...
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