No fewer than 15 girls have been reported dead after a fatal boat accident at Dandeji village in the Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State.The girls were said to have been on their way to a nearby bush to fetch firewood when the boat capsized on Tuesday morning.According to eyewitness accounts, over 40 girls…
Terrorists have freed three of the remaining seven girls of the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, who were being held in their captivity.Those released are Elizabeth Ogechi Nwafor, Esther Sunday and Aliya Abubakar.The chairman of parents of the Abducted School Girls’ Forum, Malam Salim Kaoje explained that the newly released girls arrived Kebbi…
Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, has reinstated that air plane ‘tyre burst’ is an incident that happens occasionally in the industry and does not determines airline’s safety standards.This is coming against the backdrop of the sensational reporting of the incident involving Max Air flight that had an emergency landing and suffered burst tyre at the…
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre has queried the $800m World Bank loan taken by the Federal Government as a palliative to cushion the effect of the proposed fuel subsidy removal, scheduled for June 2023.The Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Musa-Rafsanjani, in a statement on Sunday, lamented what he described as the “nonchalant attitude” of…
As Nigerian authorities work hard toward the evacuation of Nigerian students in war torn Sudan, two nigerian students have caused the Egyptian authorities to insist on the return of over 500 students back to Sudan. This is following the failure of two of them to provide either a passport or Emergency Travel Certificate. According to…
The Federal Government, on Thursday, told traditional rulers nationwide to steer clear of mining sites, saying they belong to the land owners.The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, gave the warning in Ibadan, during the inauguration of the International Gemstone Market under the Economic Sustainability Plan of the Federal Government.The minister was responding…
As Nigeria’s debt grows daily, the Senate, yesterday, abandoned its previous hard line stance and approved the conversion to a 40-year bond of the N23.72 trillion Federal Government’s unappropriated expenditure funded by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through its ways and means (W&M) window. President Muhammadu Buhari, last year, wrote the National Assembly to…
The Lagos State Government, yesterday, arraigned a Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, driver, Oluwaseun Osibanjo, before an Ikeja High Court for allegedly causing grievous harm and involuntary manslaughter by running into a moving train.Osibanjo was arraigned on a 16-count charge bordering on grievous harm and involuntary manslaughter for the BRT-train collision accident on March 9, 2023…
