The Presidency has highlighted the impressive strides of President Muhammadu Buhar’s administration in checkmating security issues between 2015 and 2023. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, in a 90-page document released on Sunday in Abuja, said the remarkable interventions had impacted positively on the changes in the paramilitary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Buhari was elected into office on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) after defeating then-incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Reports that he was sworn into office on May 29, 2015.…
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Bandits have killed at least 40 villagers in Kebbi and Zamfara states during a dawn attack on Sunday. Our correspondent gathered that six mobile policemen were among the 36 victims killed at Dan Umaru in Zuru area of Kebbi State. Residents said the funeral of 27 people had taken place while several others sustained various degrees of injuries. Dozens have also been kidnapped and hundreds of cattle rustled during the attack on neighboring villages. In Zamfara State, three people were killed in Shinkafi village. The police authorities in the states had yet to make any official statement on the matter…
Nigeria’s $13.46 billion World Bank loan, according to the Debt Management Office (DMO), is a benefit because the loans from the International Development Association (IDA) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
Aliko Dangote Foundation has resolved to be fully involved in the evacuation and resettling of thousands of Nigerians stranded in Sudan.
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has debunked reports that it planned to phase out the newly redesigned N1,000, N500 and N200 notes. Dr. Isa AbdulMumim, Ag. Director, Corporate Communications of the bank, yesterday, described the reports as “fake news.” While advising members of the public to ignore such reports, AbdulMumin said: “The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been drawn to a fake news item circulating in the media, particularly in the social media space, suggesting that the Bank is contemplating the withdrawal of the recently redesigned N1,000, N500 and N200 currency banknotes from circulation. “We…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, has arraigned, one Kilo Ken, (aka Kingsley Egharevba), at the National Industrial Court in Benin over alleged human trafficking. The suspect was alleged to have impersonated the Nigerian Army and allegedly assisting in trafficking young girls to Libya for prostitution. The suspect was arrested by the officers of the Nigerian Army and handed over to NAPTIP for prosecution. The suspect was arraigned on two-count charge of allegedly assisting one Nifemi Afolabi (aka Halima), now at large, for organising foreign travels for a victim of prostitution. He was said to have…
Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State, has declared that the state will soon create an assembly facility for electric buses. He made this statement as he announced the arrival of the first batch of electric buses that had just been added to the Lagos Mass Transit Master Plan, which was created to “reduce carbon emissions in the state.” In a post on his official Twitter handle, @jidesanwoolu, the governor expressed delight that with the buses, “Lagosians can expect a cleaner and greener public transportation system.” He said the buses would be powered by universal chargers placed at public…
The top United Nations humanitarian official is heading to the Sudan region due to the “rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis” in the conflict-racked country, the UN chief said. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ announcement Sunday came shortly after rival Sudanese forces announced the extension of a truce they have largely violated, as warplanes roared overhead and fighting continued in the capital Khartoum. The fighting pits the forces of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against his ex-deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the Rapid Support Forces, a heavily armed paramilitary group. More than 500 people have been killed and tens of thousands of people…
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has taken a swipe at the outgoing government of President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as the worst administration in Nigeria’s political history. The president of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, gave this remark in an exclusive interview with Nigerian Tribune when he was asked to assess President Buhari’s eight-year administration, particularly in the education sector. He said as far as ASUU is concerned, Buhari’s government is a disaster, especially with regard to public education, and ASUU as a union wishes that Nigeria and its people never witness a repeat of such an administration.…
Ahead of the inauguration of a new President on May 29, 2023, Nigeria’s Boeing 737 Presidential jet has been flown out of the country for comprehensive maintenance. Villa sources told Punch that NAF 001, which has served the President Muhammadu Buhari , in the past eight years was taken out of the country over the weekend. Although the location is not known, past maintenance on the aircraft had been carried out by its manufacturer, Boeing, in the United States of America. Boeing’s military aircraft division builds modified 737 planes at its manufacturing facilities in Everett and Renton, Washington (outside…
The Senate has indicted the Bank of Agriculture in Kaduna over a N3.2bn loan disbursed to 10 vendors to purchase tractors and other equipment for allocation to end users. The indictment was a sequel to the 2016 report of the Auditor General of the Federation considered by the Senate Public Accounts Committee chaired by Senator Mathew Uhroghide. After an investigation by the committee, the management of the bank was indicted for being unable to account for N3.2bn disbursed to 10 vendors out of the N3.6bn provided in 2015 by the Federal Government through the bank. Our correspondent learnt that the…
A Dutch man suspected of fathering more than 550 children worldwide through sperm donations has been ordered to stop. The man named Jonathan, aged 41, could be fined more than 100,000 (£88,000) if he tries to donate again. He was banned from donating to fertility clinics in the Netherlands in 2017 after it emerged he had fathered more than 100 children. But instead of stopping he carried on donating sperm abroad and online. A court in The Hague has told him to provide a list of all the clinics he had used and to order them to destroy his sperm.…