The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has graduated 358 officers to enhance service delivery in correctional facilities. Sylvester Nwakuch, Comptroller General of NCoS, presided over the passing-out parade and graduation ceremony of the 340th Basic Recruit Course on Thursday in Kaduna. The event marked the culmination of six months of rigorous physical, academic, and ethical training…
Twenty-nine students taking their high school exams in the Central African Republic died in a stampede sparked by an exploding power transformer, the health ministry told AFP Thursday. Just over 5,300 students were sitting the second day of the baccalaureat exams at the time of the explosion early Wednesday afternoon in Bangui, the capital of…
Members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ Warri Correspondents’ Chapel in Delta State has embarked on a campaign against violent crisis in Warri and its environs, with a call on residents to shun any acts capable of causing crisis in the town. NUJ members matched through major streets of Warri, from its old secretariat…
The Federal Capital Territory Chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC has threatened to mobilise it’s members to shut down the territory following the area council workers’ lingering strike. Dr Stephen Knabayi, NLC Chairman, stated in an interview with the newsmen that the territory will be shut down after President Bola Tinubu concludes the ongoing…
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Oludare Sunday and Kabir Kataka as the new Managing Director and Executive Director of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation. The confirmation followed the presentation of a report by the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance, and Other Financial Institutions, chaired by Senator Adetokunbo Abiru (APC, Lagos East). Abiru presented the committee’s…
By Anuoluwapo Fasoyin The Polytechnic Ibadan, has been renamed Omololu Olunloyo Polytechnic Ibadan in honour of the former Governor of old Oyo State.Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde, made the announcement at 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 for the 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫, held at 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐢 𝐀𝐰𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐮𝐦.Governor Makinde, described the late mathematician as a technocrat and…
President Bola Tinubu has declined assent to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Amendment Bill, 2025, recently passed by the National Assembly. The bill proposes granting the NDLEA the power to retain a portion of the proceeds from drug related crimes in variance to the current legal framework. This is communicated to the House…
House of Representatives member, Hon. Dickson Tarkighir, has decried the collapse of agricultural activity in Benue State, blaming unrelenting violent attacks for rendering farmers unable to access their lands.Addressing newsmen on Wednesday after raising a motion in the House, Hon.Tarkighir, who represents Makurdi/Guma Federal Constituency, said the state can no longer be described as Nigeria’s…
The Sokoto State Police Command has confirmed that eight people were killed and one other injured in a brutal attack by suspected bandits on two farming communities in the Tangaza Local Government Area of the state.According to the command’s spokesman, DSP Ahmed Rufai, in a WhatsApp message to the newsmen on Thursday, the victims were…
The longstanding tensions of President Donald Trump of the United States with the US intelligence community are resurfacing over conflicting assessments of the impact of recent American airstrikes on Iran. An early intelligence assessment concluded that Iran’s nuclear programme was only set back by a few months following last weekend’s strikes on three sites. President…