The Former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Bolaji Abdullahi, has called on Nigerians to vote out the All Progressive Congress, saying that the present ruling party has ruined the nation. Speaking at an event organized by the Kwara state Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Ilorin on August 10, Abdullahi said the ruling…
John Neji Chiahemen, a former journalist at Thomson Reuters, has passed away. After a protracted fight with motor neuron disease, the journalist who was employed by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) passed away in Johannesburg, South Africa (ALS). On Wednesday, August 10, his family released a statement in which they acknowledged his passing. The statement…
GIOTV that two additional ISWAP terrorists who participated in the gruesome massacre of over 40 worshippers at the St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo on June 5, 2022, have been arrested by the Military High Command on Thursday. Director of Defence Information, Major General Jimmy Akpor who made this known in a statement named the suspects…
A man suspected to be a vandal has been electrocuted in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. According to reports, the victim was stealing from the transformer when power was suddenly restored. It was gathered that the man died Tuesday night, August 9, while allegedly trying to steal from a transformer along Osiri road in the Ekeki…
No fewer than seven hostages abducted from the Kaduna-Abuja train on March 28 have been released. The seven hostages released by the terrorists include a family of six and a woman. Their release was confirmed to journalists in Kaduna by Tukur Mamu, Publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and Media Consultant to a controversial Islamic cleric,…
A 60-year-old man, Malam Bala, and his son, Sunusi Bala, 35, have been confirmed dead after drowning in a well they were draining at Sabon Garin Bauchi, in Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State. Public Relations Officer of the State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi who confirmed the incident in a statement on Wednesday, August…
Trader identified as Hajia Amina Folorunsho-Balogun has been abducted by unknown gunmen who stormed her shop in the Plywood area of Epe, Lagos, Sunday night, August 7. It was reported that the kidnappers, who pretended to be customers, walked into her shop at about 10.07 pm, requesting to buy water. Her husband was said to…
According to Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Nigeria cannot afford another civil war. El-Rufai advised youths not to feed the fires of violence and conflict in the country during his speech at the conclusion ceremony of the orientation course held for members of the 2022 Batch B (Stream 2) National Youth Service Corps sent to…
Hajaratu Sini, a 58-year-old housewife in Adamawa State, was apprehended by members of the state police command for reportedly using a stick to kill her husband’s mistress after she discovered them in the act. According to the suspect, who is a native of Wumbirmi Tilli in the Michika Local Government Area, her husband’s lover, Kwada…
According to the federal administration, there is no longer a shortage of passport booklets in the nation. Rauf Aregbesola, the interior minister, announced this on Tuesday, August 9 at the launching of the Enhanced Passport Production Center in Port Harcourt, the state capital of Rivers. Aregbesola said; “We have left no stone unturned in our…