Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the Chikun council area following bandits’ abduction of eight schoolchildren, relaxing the 24-hour curfew imposed on Sabon Garin Nasarawa-Tirkaniya community. “With effect from Wednesday, April 5, the curfew will be in place from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., while residents of the area can go…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Wednesday, said the report credited to him that INEC deliberately withheld the real-time upload of presidential election results from polling units is “irresponsible and reckless”. The minister made the clarification in Washington DC while reacting to the report published on some online platforms. He said the…
The Kaduna State Government has explained that it imposed a 24-hour curfew following a clash between local hunters and some gangsters in the Sabon Garin-Tirkaniya area of Chikun Local Government Area.It was learnt that the violence led to the death of two people on Sunday night.The Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs,…
Governors of the 36 states of the federation are to meet tomorrow with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, on how to manage their states’ security votes.Attempts to get governors to react to the implication of the meeting for their states last night…
Bandits have abducted two female students of the Federal University, Gusau, at Sabon Gida village of Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The Zamfara State Police Command confirmed that the students were abducted in the early hours of Sunday. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Mohammed Shehu, in a statement, explained that the bandits…
Suspected herdsmen allegedly invaded Community Grammar School, Alaropo Nla, in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, yesterday, and injured students and teachers in the process.News providers reliably gathered that the herders, numbering over 20, allegedly invaded the school with their cattle and injured some of the students and teachers, including one Mr. Paul Olabode,…
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has said getting out-of-school children back into education poses a massive challenge.According to a report on its website, it stated that one in every five of the world’s out-of-school children is in Nigeria.It read, “Even though primary education is officially free and compulsory, about 10.5 million of the…
Property worth millions of naira were destroyed by rainstorm in some parts of Akure, the Ondo State capital and some other towns in the state.It was gathered that the rainstorm was caused by a downpour which occurred on Tuesday in the affected communities.This came some days after a similar incident happened in Ilara Mokin community…
