A Kano State High Court has restrained the state government from taking any action against private primary and secondary schools in the state. The ex-parte order restraining the government to maintain the status quo was granted by Justice Nasiru Saminu after hearing a motion ex-parte filed by Barr. AbdulHafees D. Khalid for the applicants. App...
European football governing body UEFA upheld a 500,000 euro fine ($537,000) on Spanish champions Barcelona on Friday for a breach of their financial control rules. UEFA’s club financial control body (CFCB) said in a statement the Catalan club wrongly reported profits “on the disposal of intangible assets” in the financial year 2022, reports AF...
The naira continued its rebound against the dollar today, strengthening to N950/$ on the average in the parallel market. This represents a N170 gain or a 15.18 per cent appreciation of the local currency compared to the N1,120 it traded for yesterday, reports The PUNCH. This is also the second day of recovery for the […]
•Fr. Emokhidi Rev. Fr. Samson Emokhidi, a priest of the Archdiocese of Abuja, has been declared missing. According to a statement released by the Chancery, Samson was last seen leaving his residence at 8:45 pm on Sunday, October 1, 2023. The statement signed by Chancellor of the Archdiocese, Fr Sam Tumba, said there had been […]
According to the Cadre Harmonise, about 26 million Nigerians in Borno, Sokoto and Zamfara states including the FCT are expected to be in a food crisis between June and August 2024. Cadre Harmonise is a report put together by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation [&hellip...
Three people died when a sailing boat capsized today and ran aground on a beach in central Portugal, where the coast has seen heavy swells caused by Storm Ciaran, naval authorities said. The Danish-flagged pleasure boat capsized around a kilometre off one of the beaches at Santa Cruz, in the municipality of Torres Vedras, around […]
The police in Rivers State today said its operatives smashed a drug trafficking syndicate and recovered 300 parcels of weed suspected to be Indian hemp. Speaking during a press briefing today at the command headquarters in Port Harcourt, the state Commissioner of Police, Nwonyi Emeka, said the syndicate was rounded up following credible Intell...
•Youth Corpers Respite has come for two kidnapped members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) as they have been rescued by troops of the Nigerian Army and police operatives. The two corps members were kidnapped by bandits in Yargoje community, Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, reports Channels TV. They were rescued yesterd...
•Wike The Ijaw National Congress, INC, has cautioned the minister of the federal capital territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike over his claims to the ownership of political structures in Rivers State. INC posited that political structures should not and cannot be anyone’s personal property, adding that as power is transient, so also the political archit...
•Ganduje The New Nigerian People Party (NNPP)’s government of Kano State has alleged that the immediate past All Progressives Congress (APC) government of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje left the state with a debt burden of over N500 billion. Deputy Governor Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo stated this in Kaduna while chairing the North-West Zonal Meeting of NN...

