•Federal Government warns as Nigerian students pay $100 for ‘dangerous’ road •We are waiting for Sudanese govt to provide safe corridor for evacuation – Minister The Federal Government is making preparations to evacuate about 5,500 stranded Nigerians out of Sudan through the Egyptian town of Luxor. It was gathered that the Federal Government was seeking Egypt’s support so that the stranded Nigerians could be moved to Luxor. The Director of Special Duties of the National Emergency Management Agency, who doubles as Chairman of NEMA’s Committee for the Evacuation of the Stranded Nigerians from Sudan, Dr Onimode Bandele, said the…
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The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) said on Saturday the Federal Government would earn N180 billion in revenue from investment in cassava and fire detection technology in 15 years. In a statement, the ICRC said the revenue would be generated from the concession of a Cassava Bio-mass, Bio-ethanol Value Chain, and the National Fire Detection and Alarm System (NAFDAS). The statement read: “The Cassava Bio-Ethanol Value Chain will be done on a pilot phase with the aim of building a Bio-technology Industrial Park on a 20-hectare plot across 20 Universities, Academia, and Research and Development Institutes. In the pilot…
Twitter’s blue ticks were reinstated on some media, celebrity, and other high-profile accounts Saturday — a move protested by many of the recipients. Once a free sign of authenticity and fame, blue ticks must now be bought by subscribers for $8 a month, Twitter says. Non-paying accounts that had a blue tick lost it on Thursday, as owner Elon Musk implemented a strategy, dubbed “Twitter Blue”, to generate new revenue, announced last year. Only a tiny fraction of blue-ticked users subscribed — less than 5 percent of the 407,000 profiles affected, according to Travis Brown, a Berlin-based software developer…
INEC) has been asked to review the processes and procedures of the current two-step process of continuous voter registration (CVR) and permanent
David Adeleke, better known as Davido, has assured fans, music lovers, and critics amongst others, that the concert billed hold at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS
JUST IN: APC Dissolves Presidential Campaign Counci The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissolved its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) inaugurated last year to prosecute the 2023 presidential election. The dissolution was contained in a statement on Saturday night, jointly signed by the Director General of the APC PCC, Governor Simon Bako Lalong and the Secretary of the council, James Abiodun Faleke. The party on behalf of the chairman of the Presidential Campaign Council, President Muhammadu Buhari; the president-elect, Bola Tinubu and other leaders, thanked all council members, leaders and supporters for working assiduously for the resounding victory of the president-elect,…
More than 150 people, including foreign diplomats and officials, rescued from battle-scarred Sudan arrived Saturday in Jeddah, the Saudi foreign ministry said, in the first announced evacuation of civilians since fighting began. The evacuation was carried out by the kingdom’s naval forces with the support of other branches of the army, the foreign ministry said in a statement. It announced the “safe arrival” of 91 Saudi citizens and around 66 nationals from 12 other countries — Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, the Philipines, Canada and Burkina Faso. The foreigners included “diplomats and international…
Two years after the abduction of dozens of schoolgirls from Federal Government College Birnin Yauri in Kebbi State, four of the remaining 11 girls in captivity have regained their freedom. Reports that the four girls, Bilha Musa, Faiza Ahmed, Rahma Abdullahi and Hafsa Murtala were released by notorious bandit leader, Dogo Gide on Friday evening. “It took six days of negations in the forest before four of the girls were released to us,” Salim Kaoje told Daily Trust on Saturday morning. “We have seven more still in captivity and two of the parents are still in the forest trying to…
Igbo rejected the emergence of Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
Russian fighter jet has accidentally bombed a city in Russia amid war with the neighbouring country, Ukraine.
Controversial Nigerian street music star, Portable, had cried out over his newly acquired dental grill.
Tragedy struck in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Friday, when a middle-aged man lost his life and three others were injured in a road accident. The accident reportedly involved four persons, who were riding on a motorcycle on Eid-el-Fitr day in Ilorin. The three other people on the bike, which rammed into a vehicle, sustained serious injuries. The victims were said to be returning from the Ilorin Eid prayer ground when the incident occurred at the Balogun Fulani axis, in the Ilorin South Local Government Area of the state. The deceased, identified simply as Suraju, was said to be from Alamo…