The Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘B’ Nigerian Customs Service, Kaduna, has impounded sacks of pangolin scales worth N3.9 billion. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Kaduna, Ahmadu Shuaibu, comptroller of the unit, said the pangolin scales which weighed 445.45kg were impounded in the suburbs of Zuru Town in Kebbi State on Friday, May 24…
Defence minister, Bashir Magashi (right) at the 2023 budget defense on Thursday at the National Assembly Photo: Sylvanus Tyoakaa
The court of appeal sitting in Markurdi, Benue state, has ordered the All Progressives Congress (APC) to conduct fresh governorship primary in 11 LGAs. A three-member panel of the appellate court delivered the judgment on Monday, in an appeal filed by a governorship aspirant of the APC, Terhemba Shija, who lost at the primary election…
President of the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria, (SCSN), Abdurrasheed Hadiytullah, has called for concrete steps to address the issue of endemic corruption and wasteful spending in Nigeria. Hadiytullah made the call on Tuesday in Kaduna at the annual Pre-Ramadan meeting of the SCSN. According to him, “corruption is like a cancer, which destroys…
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee on the House of Representatives primary election in Plateau State, Stella Okotete, has dismissed the earlier result announced for the Pankshin, Kanke, Kanam federal constituency election, describing it as unauthorised. The committee subsequently declared the incumbent lawmaker representing the constituency, Yusuf Gagdi, winner of the primary…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Taoreed Lagbaja on, Tuesday visited Tudun Biri community, Igabi LGA, Kaduna state, to commiserate and tender unreserved apologies to the victims of the accidental bomb that claimed over 80 lives on Sunday. The army chief also visited the injured victims at the Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital, Kaduna and donated N10…
