Ramatu Kyari, wife of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, on Monday slumped at the Federal High Court, Abuja. She slumped and fell on the floor while men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) were leading Kyari and others out of the court premises. She was quickly carried and rushed…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its ongoing warning strike by eight weeks. The extension follows the failure of the federal government to address the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the four-week warning strike. President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, announced the extension of the strike in a…
President Muhammadu Buhari has warned leaders and members of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to desist from “name-calling and backstabbing”. The warning was contained in statement on issued on Saturday in Abuja by Garba Shehu, Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media. The statement titled, Buhari urged APC members to “remain steadfast and maintain unity if the…
The Managing Director of ECOBASic Seeds, Brighton Karume, has said that Nigeria has the capacity to double its maize production and achieve self sufficiency, if 50 per cent of maize farmers across the country adopt hybrid maize seed varieties. Addressing a press conference at its head office in Kaduna, Karume, said currently over 90 percent…
Emmanuel Yawe, the spokesman of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has died. He was aged 65. Yawe, a veteran journalist, from Taraba state, died in his sleep on Friday morning. Murtala Aliyu, Secretary General of the ACF,, confirmed his death on the forum’s WhatsApp media platform. “It is with heavy heart that I bring to…
The Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has said that “the security situation has relatively improved across all parts of the country.” He also said the insurgents terrorising the north east have been decimated considerably adding that over 30,000 of the insurgents and their family had so far surrendered. In a keynote…
