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A son of the Nigerian Minister of Communication and Digital Economy Ibrahim Isa Ali Pantami was on Friday kidnapped. However, less than three hours after, he was found at a checkpoint in Bauchi. Al-Amin was said to have been kidnapped where he lives with his grandmother. It was not clear if any ransoms was paid before his kidnappers dropped him at a checkpoint. He was said to have been brought back home from Dambam in Bauchi state. It was learnt that when the news of the kidnap reached the minister, all security agencies were said to have been alerted .…
Nigeria’s first female Vice Chancellor Prof Grace Alele-Wiliams has died. A woman with many other records of firsts, Alele-Williams was the first Nigerian woman to bag a doctorate degree in Mathematics. She was appointed Vice Chancellor in 1985 with a tenure that was marked with stringent rules that got cultists into trouble . Variously she was regarded as “Margret Thatcher “ for her very strict stance on university administration.
Algeria on Friday defeated Cameroon in the ongoing World Cup Qualifier series. The match which saw the Cameroonian side having upper hand in ball possession dominating the match time by about 64 % of the time . Algerian striker, Islam Slimani had scored the only goal of the encounter when he beat the goalkeeper at the 40th minute of the match. It wa a day of luck for Algerians as the Cameroonians had upper hand in my most of the departments of the game. The 2019 African champions scored through Islam Slimani in the 40th minute of the first leg…
The Eagle Square Abuja venue of Saturday National Convention of the All Progressive Congress has witnessed a massive beef up of security. Policemen fully armed were seen at all the vicinity of the Eagle Square which has also seen massive facelift as a result of the decorations already made of the venue. NPO Reports that police vans were stationed at strategic locations around the venue and the adjoining roads. The APC is fine tuning it’s plans to choose its new set of leadership ahead of the 2023 elections.
We’re Still Working on Consensus Candidate for APC – Governor Sule Gov. Abudulahi Sule of Nasarawa, says the APC leadership is still working on getting an acceptable consensus candidate as first option in it’s national convention billed for Saturday, March 26. He said the consensus was to ensure a peaceful and rancor-free national convention. Sule, who is the Chairman of the APC Sub-Committee on Media and Publicity, said this at a news conference on Friday in Abuja, at the party’s national secretariat. “Before we go into the convention, our first choice is always consensus, and we are still on that…
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Prof. Charles Igwe, has urged engineers to find solution to unstable electricity supply in the country. Igwe said this in Nsukka on Friday during the 19th Herbert Macaulay Memorial Lecture, organised by the Faculty of Engineering with the theme: “The Path to Stable Electricity in Nigeria: An Engineer’s Challenge”. Perennial disruptions to Power supply has become a major problem to production in the country. He said that stable electricity played vital role in the development and industrialisation of any country. “Engineers should rise up to find solution to problems preventing the country…
There appears to be no end in sight for the complex problems facing the universities national bodies of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions have declared a two-week warning strike action to commence March 27. In a letter released on Friday by the Joint Action Committee of NASU and SSANU, signed by SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, and NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi. The letter, titled “Commencement of Two-Week Warning Strike,” directed all its members in universities and inter-university centers to begin the warning strike. JAC said that the proposed…
The People’s Democratic Party on Friday demanded for the resignation of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele over his campaign poster for the 2023 presidential election. A statement by PDP’s spokesman Debo Ologunagba on Friday said Emefiele’s posters is the “height of impunity.” March 25, 2022 PDP said Emefiele’s appearance in All Progressives Congress campaign posters which confirms his partisan affiliation and entanglement with the APC. “The PDP asserts that the appearance of the CBN Governor; the banker of the federation, who by law, ought to be non-partisan and apolitical, in APC campaign material is the…
The Lagos Command of the Nigerian Police on Friday said it has arrested one of its personnel over wrong arrest. The personnel, who was caught on video after he arrested a motorist over allegation that he had no permit for his tainted car, was identified by the command as Inspector Dele Rueben. The police has suspended tainted permit making it possible for car owners to use them without arrests. But the video showed the Police Inspector in the tainted car telling the owner he had been arrested. A statement by Benjamin Hundeyin, a Superintendent of Police and Command spokesman, said…
Dr. Olivia Nwankudu, the Convener, EndoSuurviors International Foundation, says not all menstrual pains and cramps are normal, as some might be associated with endometriosis condition. Nwankudu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the Fourth Annual Endometriosis Awareness Symposium, organised by the foundation in conjunction with Association of Medical Ultrasound Practitioners of Nigeria (AMUPN) on Friday in Lagos. NAN reports that Endometriosis is an often painful condition in which a tissue similar to the one that lines the inside of the uterus, endometrium grows outside the uterus. The disorder can cause severe pelvic pains and menstrual…