The governors of four north-central states have donated N100 million to victims of attacks in Plateau communities. In a statement on Tuesday, governor of Benue, Hyacinth Alia, said the donation was announced by governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state and chairman of north-central governors forum, during a visit to Jos, the Plateau capital. The four…
A group known as “Coalition for Peace and Progress,” has declared that, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, is the most suitable to be the running mate of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. Addressing a press conference on Saturday in Kaduna, the coordinator of the…
Twelve people have been killed while 9 others were seriously injured in an attack by bandits on Gindin Dutse Makyali village of Kufana district, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna state. A resident of the community said the attack occurred in the early hours of Sunday. He said residents of the community were asleep when…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to clarify his recent comments, regretting picking a running mate for the Presidency in 1999. Obasanjo, had while addressing a leadership mentoring session with selected students in Abeokuta, Ogun state on Saturday, said picking a running mate when he wanted to become Nigeria’s president…
Former governor of Plateau state, Joshua Dariye, has said that his imprisonment for N1.126bn fraud was politically motivated. Dariye governed Plateau for eight years – from 1999 and 2007. He was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2007, over allegations of diverting N1.126 billion from the state government’s ecological fund. After…
The federal government has distributed 740 trucks of rice to the 36 states of the federation and the federal capital territory (FCT) to address the economic hardship in the country. The minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, announced this at a press conference on Monday at the end of the federal executive council meeting (FEC) at…
