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Amnesty International (AI) has called on the Federal Government to secure the safe release of over 687 people who were abducted by gunmen in Borno and Kaduna states. In Borno, suspected Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped over 400 persons including women and children from…

A prison inmate at the Oke-Kura Correctional Centre in Ilorin, Kwara State capital has shot and wounded a roadside vulcaniser. This happened on Friday when some prison inmates were being led out of the facility. But one of the inmates seized a warder’s…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapters have demanded contrasting figures for the new minimum wage. Both labour unions made the presentation at the North Central Zonal public hearing organised by the…

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA has announced the tentative dates of March 11 and March 12, 2024 as commencement dates for the annual Ramadan fast, pending the sighting of the moon after sunset on Sunday, March 10, 2024. In a…

Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has said that the ongoing amendment of the NDLEA Act when passed into law, will significantly enhance the organisational capability of the Agency to curb the menace of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in the…

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says its Super Mushshak trainer aircraft was involved in a minor mishap on Thursday at about 2.35 pm. In a statement, the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, said the accident occurred…

The 14th Emir of Kano State, Mohammed Sanusi, has recounted how the late Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, Dr Herbert Wigwe, came to his rescue after he was dethroned and had to leave the state. Sanusi made this known at the…

Dozens have been abducted in a fresh attack by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State. The attack happened on Monday when the insurgents struck three Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Ngala tow, the headquarters of Gamboru Ngala Local Government Area at the…

African Development Bank (AfDB) chief Akinwumi Adesina says the future of the Nigerian youths does not lie in Europe, North America or anywhere else but in the West African country, here in the continent of Africa. The former Nigerian Minister of Agriculture stated…

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, on Tuesday, restated the commitment of the Nigerian Army to defend the nation’s choice of government, Democracy. Addressing participants at a seminar on career planning and management organised by the Army headquarters in…