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….
A new association for legal practitioners in Nigeria, known as, Law Society of Nigeria (LSN) has been established. The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), founded in 1933, had been the only professional body regulating legal practitioners in Nigeria. The new association, according to reports by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is led by Kunle Ogunba,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerians to forgive him in any way he has hurt them. Speaking while marking his final Sallah celebration as president, Buhari said “all those that I have hurt, I ask that they pardon me”. He said he accepts all the criticism of his administration in good faith, noting that it is…
Zamfara state governor, Bello Matawalle has said the security situation in the North west is a threat to the country. He said unless northerners wake up to the situation, the war against banditry in the north west will remain a significant security challenge with a potential to threat to the region and the country. Speaking…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is to restrict accounts without bank verification number (BVN) or national identification number (NIN) from March 1, 2024. In a circular issued on Friday, in Abuja, the apex bank said a “Post No Debit or Credit” will be placed on funded accounts without BVN or NIN on March 1,…
The Kaduna State Coordinator of Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project, Maryam Dangaji, has disclosed that over 40,000 girls have enrolled in the programme. In an interview with journalists on Friday in Kaduna, Dangaji said the girls also received conditional cash transfers of between N5,000 to N10,000 paid through their caregivers. She…
