The sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has asked Nigerians not to allow misinformation and fabricated stories on social media to worsen the country’s fragile security situation. The sultan spoke on Tuesday at the seventh executive committee meeting of the Northern Traditional Rulers’ Council in Maiduguri, Borno state. The traditional ruler described social media as…
The Nasarawa state police command has deployed its personnel to rescue the abducted Chief of Gurku, Jibrin Waziri and his wife. In a statement on Monday in Lafia, spokesman of the command, Ramhan Nansel, the police commissioner, Maiyaki Baba, has deployed all concerned units of the command to rescue the monarch and his wife unhurt….
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has unveiled programmes marking its 60th anniversary. At a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday, the chairman of the anniversary committee, Air Vice Marshal Michael Ekwueme the Diamond jubilee anniversary is not only a time for celebration but also a moment for deep reflection on our accomplishments, challenges and charting…
The governor of Zamfara, Dauda Lawal, has signed an executive order restructuring and reducing the number of ministries in the state from 28 to 16. The governor disclosed this in a post on his official Twitter handle on Thursday. According to him, the decision to reduce the number of ministries, was taken to transform the…
The President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has been reportedly arrested by operatives of the Department of the State Services (DSS). According to reports, Ajaero was arrested on Monday morning at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his way to the United Kingdom for an official assignment. The report said the…
Elder statement and convener of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has that Muhammadu Buhari failed abysmally as President for eight years. He said the Buhari administration was full of insecurity, economic collapse, injustice, religious bigotry and lack of direction. According to Clerk, Buhari pushed the country five decades backward. The elder statesman…
