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Mrs Titi Abubakar, wife of former Vice President and 2023 presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has lamented neglect by Nigerians, saying they have refused to support her pet project, Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation, WOTCLEF, just because she’s married to the politician and business tycoon. She, however, vowed never […]
The Supreme Court will today (Monday) commence hearing on appeals filed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party and the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, seeking to unseat President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The newsmen reports that Atiku, Obi, and the APM […]
The Nigeria Police, Borno State Command, on Friday confirmed the arrest of two suspects, Adamu Ibrahim and Bukar Wadiya for allegedly killing one Fatima Alhaji-Bukar, a 24-year-old housewife. Alhaji-Bukar was a resident of Dikechiri, Bayan Gidan Dambe area of Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State. This is contained in a statement signed by the spokesperson of the […]
Management of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, Oyo State, has announced official commencement of academic activities at its Iseyin campus. Registrar of the university, Dr. Kayode Ogunleye, in a release forwarded to Tribune Online, on Saturday, directed 200-level students in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Renewable Natural Resources, to resume lectures […]
The Engr. Chidi Ibeh-led faction of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has called for the arrest and prosecution of popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi over his recent outburst on Christians in Nigeria. Gumi was quoted as saying it was dangerous to entrust Nigeria’s national security in the hands of Christians and southerners. He made the remark […]
The Federal Government says it has made plans in a new policy plans for cancer survivors to be catered to adequately. The Director-General, National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, Dr Usman Aliyu, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Abuja. According to him, the plan is contained […]
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for war-torn and besieged Gaza started passing into the Rafah border crossing from Egypt Saturday, a security source and an Egyptian Red Crescent official told AFP. Egyptian state television showed several trucks entering the gate on the 15th day of the war between Israel and Hamas, the militant movement which rules […]
The leadership of the Labour Party on Friday raised an alarm that the Independent National Electoral Commission was striving to frustrate its efforts at reclaiming the mandate of its suspended House of Representatives candidate, Amobi Ogah, after two INEC lawyers clashed at the appellate court in Lagos. This was even as the party appealed to […]
The Federal Government is reviewing and expanding the National Social Register to accommodate pensioners and ex-servicemen under its Conditional Cash Transfer scheme. It is also removing beneficiaries who have excited the poverty line. On Saturday the newsmen gathered that the government was also taking out dead beneficiaries from the register and would disqualify those without […]
The federal government’s debt to the central bank of Nigeria through the ways and means advances fell to n4.36tn after most of it was restructured in June, 2023, Saturday NEWSMEN has learnt. The figure was according to the provisional data from the apex bank through its quarterly statistical bulletin for the second quarter of 2023. […]
