The federal government has declared June 6 and 9 as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid ul-Adha celebration. The minister of interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, announced this in a statement on Monday through Magdalene Ajani, the ministry’s permanent secretary. The minister congratulated the Muslim faithful ahead of the celebration. “The Federal Government has declared Friday…
Eleven of the children abducted from an Islamiyya school in Tegina, Rafi LGA of Niger state have been released. Mary Noel-Berje, spokesperson to the Niger state governor, said in a statement that the bandits released the children who could not walk because they were too small. The bandits had invaded the school on Sunday and…
Nentawe Yilwatda, a former Residence Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Benue state won the governorship primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau state. Also in Kaduna state, Senator Uba Sani, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial zone emerged governorship candidate of the ruling party in the state. Nentawe scored 803…
The late General Joshua Dogonyaro (rtd), who died on Thursday at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) at a ripe age of 80, will be remembered for many things during his military carrier. One is the coup speech he read when the military regime of then Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the current Nigerian President was…
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, says the social media gives him high blood pressure. He said, he stopped reading anything on the social media because they abuse hell out of him and he gets angry. In a video shared on twitter, Tinubu said, if he wants to hear anything, his…
Despite the 24 hours curfew imposed on Mangu LGA of Plateau state, many people have been reportedly killed while several houses were burnt on Wednesday following violent clashes in Mangu, the council headquarters. A resident of the town told AmazingTimes</strong in a telephone interview on Wednesday that the 24-hour curfew was ineffective alleging that the…
