The south of Nigeria mostly depends on the north for its food, but the farmers-herders crisis is driving a wedge through that business relationship. Alhaji Bello, a peripatetic salesman who hawks beef around Surulere, Lagos, has been forced out of business for well over a week now. “Meat is so expensive now,” he tells Pulse,…
The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested one Aisha Abdullahi Gaide for child molestation and attempted homicide. Spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, March 1, said the suspect beat her 8-year-old stepdaughter Zahra Abdullahi with an electric wire and afterwards burnt her private part with…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has deepened the probing of the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu. In this regard, the Commission has written to the Code of Conduct Bureau, demanding copies of Tinubu’s asset declaration. The letter issued and signed by the then EFCC Lagos Zonal Head, Abdulrasheed Bawa,…
The Federal Government has approved the establishment of Sim swap centers by Mobile Network Operators, MNOs, across the local government areas of the country. The approval was disclosed during a meeting of the ministerial Task Force on the NIN-SIM registration chaired by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami. During…
Unknown arsonists on Tuesday evening attacked and set ablaze the shopping complex of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Zamfara State Council secretariat, located at Gusau, the state capital. According to the shop owners, suspected thugs stormed the press center and started vandalizing one of the shops and later poured petrol on the plastic items…
A young man was burnt to death by an angry mob for allegedly stealing N2000 at a popular market in Benue. The incident happened on Monday, March 1, at Ihugh market in Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State. According to reports on Facebook, the young man allegedly stole money from a market woman while another witness…
About 386 soldiers voluntarily disengaged from the army due to medical and other reasons in the second quarter of 2020 as confirmed by the House of Representatives Committee on Army. Abdulrazaq Namdas, Chairman of the committee revealed this while presenting a report to the house yesterday March 2. Namdazs said 356 soldiers left the army after losing…
Buhari in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, said he was excited that their ordeal came to a happy end without any incident. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, expressed overwhelming joy over the release of abducted female students in Zamfara State. According to him, being held in captivity is an…
The World Health Organization has said it is “premature” and “unrealistic” to think the COVID-19 pandemic will be over by the end of the year despite reports of the slow spread of the virus in some countries due to lockdowns and vaccination programs. Speaking at a press briefing in Geneva, WHO’s executive director of emergency…
The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) has said that a ‘hit-and-run’ driver on Tuesday killed a commercial motorcyclist at Ojuola Filling Station on Owode-Ijako road in the state. Mrs. Temitope Oseni, Owode-Ijako Unit Commander of TRACE, who made this known to newsmen said that the incident happened at about 6.30 a.m,” NAN reports….