At least six persons were on Monday confirmed dead after suspected terrorists attacked residents in two separate communities of Plateau State. It was learnt that while two persons were killed in Wereng village, Kuru community, Jos South Local Government Area, by the fleeing terrorists, four other persons were killed in Heipang community, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of the state. The two separate incidents, it was further gathered occurred on Sunday night. The spokesman for the military task force in charge of maintaining peace in the state, Capt. Oya James, confirmed the killing of two persons in Jos South community…
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At least three people were feared killed and more than five others injured in a clash that involved some Gbagyi and Hausa youths in the 3rd Avenue area of Gwarinpa, Abuja. The Federal Capital Territory Police Command, however, said only one person died in the clash. The clash, which continued on Monday, was said to have been on for three days. PUNCH Metro learnt that officials of the Federal Capital Territory Joint Security Taskforce succeeded in restoring normalcy to the area on Monday. Our correspondent gathered that crisis erupted on Saturday evening in one of the areas in Gwarinpa populated…
After months of teasing, President Joe Biden is expected finally to announce his bid for a second term Tuesday, defying lukewarm polls and, at 80, boldly pushing what was once considered age boundaries for one of the planet’s most stressful jobs. “Stay tuned,” Biden told reporters at the White House. Neither the White House, the Democratic Party nor the president himself have confirmed he will announce but multiple US media reports, citing unnamed sources, say the move will come early Tuesday in a video address. “I’ll let you know real soon,” Biden told reporters when asked about an announcement. The…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has resolved to beam its searchlight on suspected fraudsters hiding under the real estate industry, a lawyer with the commission said on Saturday. The lawyer, Chris Mishela, who addressed journalists during training on effective reporting of economic and financial crimes in Benin City, Edo State, said the commission would keep Nigerians, particularly the media, abreast of the framework of the new Anti-Money Laundering Act 2022. He said: “As it is, I am talking about Abuja, you see so many estates coming all over Abuja and more. “The sources of these funds are unlawful;…
The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has returned to Nigeria on Monday evening after weeks of vacation in Paris, France. According to a short video posted by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, on his Twitter handle, Tinubu arrived to a tumultuous welcome at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. Recall that the president-elect had jetted out of Nigeria to France on March 21, a trip his campaign council said was meant for him to take a rest and plan ahead of his inauguration on May 29. A statement by the APC presidential campaign…
Air Peace Offers to Evacuate Strandded Nigerians from Sudan
Chief David Obadofin, the traditional chief of Aghara in the Kogi State locale of Kabba-Bunu, reportedly passed away while still in the care of his
Due to the cash crunch which affected economic activities across the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that the currency outside the bank vaults as at the end of February rose to N843.311 billion. This is against N792.184 billion recorded in January 2023, representing a 6.45 per cent increase. This was even as the apex bank further revealed that credit to the private sector rose to N83.29 trillion in the first two months of 2023. According to data obtained from the CBN’s money and credit statistics for the month of February 2023, credit to the private sector…
Manchester United will face fierce rivals Manchester City in the FA Cup final after they overcame Brighton in the semi-final on Sunday at the magnificent Wembley Stadium. Solly March’s spot-kick miss saw Brighton suffer semi-final shoot-out heartache as United stayed on course for a possible domestic double having won the League Cup earlier in the season. Going into Sunday’s tie after their unceremonious exit from the Europa League where they were sent packing by Sevilla, United knew they needed to pick themselves up as fast as they could. Brighton made United sweat as the south coast club sought to reach…
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, asked Nigerians who he might have hurt in his near-eight-year misrule to forgive him. Similarly, a section of the social media is asking for forgiveness for Aishatu Dahiru, popularly known as Binani. Dahiru is the woman who, before the April gubernatorial election re-run in Adamawa state, was considered a political exemplar and one who typified the assumed political purity of the female gender. Very few narratives of the concept of hurt and forgiveness are as gripping as the grisly story of Father Michael Lapsley. As he walked into the sitting of the Truth and…
In Nigeria, the problem of abysmal poverty and how to tackle it has become a sing-song among the political elite who ignore the primary source of the socially ill, unrealistically low minimum wage. Today, the minimum wage of N30,000 ($65) per month, places Nigeria among low-wage paying countries in Africa. Though, the largest oil-producing and exporting country on the continent, Nigeria does not rank among the top 10 countries that pay the highest minimum wage per month in Africa. The countries include Seychelles ($432), Libya ($322), Morocco ($281), Gabon ($256), and South Africa ($242). Others are Mauritius ($241), Equatorial Guinea…
The Federal Government has inaugurated the World Blood Donor Day Committee. This information was released by the National Blood Service Commission’s interim director general, Dr. Omale Amedu, in a press release that was signed by the head of media and publicity for the organization, Haruna Abdullahi. The committee’s job is to make sure that World Blood Donor Day is successfully observed. The committee is made up of members from the commission, government agencies, and non-governmental organisations, including the World Health Organisation. The World Blood Donor Day celebration is scheduled to take place on June 14, 2023. Omale stressed the need…