Sunday Dare, Minister of Youths and Sports Development, has expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance with COVID-19 protocols by athletes and officials participating in the 20th National Sports Festival (NSF) in Benin city, Edo state. Dare said this on Tuesday in Benin shortly after he was conducted round the games village by University of…
A joint operation of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Nigeria High Commission in New Delhi, India, the New Delhi Police and activists from the New Delhi-based Anti-Human Trafficking Organisation (Vihaan-WMS) has led to the arrest of a notorious human trafficker, Joy Okah. NAPTIP’s press officer,…
By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo The Taraba Tiv Youth Development Forum (TTYDF) has said that the Tiv people are not settlers but part of the indigenous ethnic groups in the state. In a statement in Jalingo, President of the forum, Torkuma Moses dismissed insinuations by the Jukun Youth and Cultural Development Association (JYCDA) that the…
Three people were killed while two others were abducted in an attack on Ungwan Galadima in Gonin Gora, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis. A resident of the area who confirmed the incident in a telephone interview said the bandits invaded the community at about 1am on Thursday and operated for over an hour. He said…
As a temporary response to the nation’s growing food crisis and the rising cost of commodities, President Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate release of more than 102,000 metric tons of various grain types from the National Food Reserve and the Rice Millers Association of Nigeria. According to The PUNCH, the Minister of Information and…
Chaplain of the Catholic Community in Kaduna Polytechnic , Kaduna, Rev. Fr. Vitus Borogo, has been killed by terrorists. Vitus who was also the Chairman of the Kaduna State chapter of the Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests Association (NCDPA), was killed on Saturday in his farm located in Kujama, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna state….
