By Habib Sani Galadima Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has requested the arrest of Debo Ologunagba, the PDP’s national publicity secretary, for disseminating what he called false information about the alleged attack on President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Kano. President Buhari visited the
By Habib Sani Galadima According to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, The All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu is suspected of allegedly having sponsored the miscreants who attacked President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Kano State. As stated in a statement from the PDP’s spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, the planned attack on the president was
By Habib Sani Galadima Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has said that services along the Abuja-Kaduna rail corridor will start up again after being stopped on Friday because a train derailed. In a statement, Mr. Niyi Alli, who is the Director of Operations for the company, said that the services would begin on
By Muhammadu Sabiu Nigeria has lost roughly 2800 resident doctors in the last two years, according to Dr. Innocent Orji, national president of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors ( NARD). He said that consultants and other physicians are not included in the figure. At a press conference held on Saturday at
By Hassan Gimba Many governors who finish their two terms in Nigeria retire into the red chamber and become ‘distinguished Senators’. But not so His Excellency, Chief Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, CON, the sixth governor of Rivers State and a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) strongman. When he refused to follow the traditional
By Habib Sani Galadima Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said that one would be permitted to cast a ballot in the general elections without a Permanent Voter Card (PVC). Mr. Yakubu announced this at a conference sponsored by the National Association of Judiciary, NAJUC, with the following
By Habib Sani Galadima Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, a former registrar for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), was re-arrested on Thursday by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Commission, or ICPC. Soon after today’s hearing before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, FHC, in Abuja, where Ojerinde has
By Habib Sani Galadima The Central Bank of Nigeria has refuted claims made by certain Nigerians that the new naira notes are scarce. At a news conference in Jos, the CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, refuted the claim in his capacity as Musa Jimoh, director of the bank’s Payment System Management Department. ”The
By Muhammadu Sabiu A bombing that is thought to be an airstrike hit a community in the Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa, killing at least 40 people on Wednesday. The suspected target of the explosion were allegedly bandits who had been terrorizing locals in the Nasarawa and Benue state border regions. It was
By Kasim Isa Muhammad The head of the Nigeria Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Ahmed, disclosed that 2.4 million people have been displaced as a result of the flood problem affecting different areas in the 2022 monsoon season. The chairman of the commission revealed this on Monday in Abuja during the opening of a week-long