UPDATED: Jonathan speaks on auto crash, loss of 2 policemen
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has opened up on his involvement in an auto accident on Wednesday in Abuja. The accident, which occurred on Wednesday evening, claimed the lives of two of Jonathan’s aides. Jonathan said the accident occurred within the vicinity of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja while he was on his way out of the airport. The former president said...
PHOTOS: Zamfara gov buys new cars for Emirs
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, has distributed 260 cars to the traditional rulers in the state. The new cars were distributed to the monarchs at the Government House in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital on Wednesday. The cars, Cadillac 2019 Model, were distributed by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, to 17 Emirs, 13 Senior District Heads, and...
APGA National Secretary dumps party for PDP
The National Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr. Labaran Maku, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Maku, a former Minister of Information under President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, confirmed his defection on Wednesday. He said his decision to return to the PDP was in response to the yearnings of his people in Nasarawa State. READ ALSO: 2023: Fayose picks PDP presidential...
FG approves establishment of 12 private universities
The Federal Government has approved the issuance of provisional licences for the establishment of 12 private universities across the country. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Wednesday. He said the affected universities would be located...
Insecurity: Buhari’s govt has no justification to exist — JNI
The Jama’atu Nasir Islam (JNI) says any government incapable of protecting its citizens has no moral justification for being in power. JNI, the apex Islamic body, headed by Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, accused the President Muhammadu Buhari led-Federal Government of failing to curb insecurity in the country. The Islamic body, in a statement by Secretary-General, Dr. Khalid...
2023: Fayose picks PDP presidential nomination form
The former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has obtained his expression of interest and nomination forms to vie for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 general election. Fayose obtained the forms at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday. He became the 14th aspirant to pick the PDP presidential nomination forms. He had...
Kaduna govt faults NBS report on Foreign Direct Investment
Kaduna State has faulted the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report for the four quarters of 2021, which included the state among the 24 states that failed to attract any Foreign Direct Investment last year. In a statement issued by the Executive Secretary of Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency(KADIPA), Khalil Nur Khalil on Wednesday, the government pointed out that the state’s...
Burkina Faso’s ex-President sentenced to life imprisonment
A military tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore be sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power in a...
Adeboye’s son deletes post calling RCCG pastors ‘goats’
Pastor Leke Adeboye, the son and Senior Personal Assistant of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has deleted a post in which he called some pastors of the church, who preached after his father’s sermon on Sunday, ‘goats’. Daddy GO, as he is fondly called, had delivered a sermon to the RCCG...
Drug trafficker arrested with 32,700 Tramadol in Adamawa
The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a cross-border drug trafficker, Emeka Okiru, with 32,700 tablets of Tramadol 225mg under the brand name, Royal and Tramaking, in Adamawa State. The 40-year-old drug trafficker, while preparing to supply his customers who came from Republic of Cameroon, was arrested by the NDLEA operatives at Garden city, Mubi...
