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The Kebbi State Government has condoled with members of immediate families, Yauri Emirate Council, and the Local Government over a boat mishap involving 30 traders. In the ugly accident, 23 people were feared dead. Alhaji Ahmed Idris, Chief Press Secretary to the governor disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birnin Kebbi on Monday. The Chief Press Secretary said his principal sent the condolence in a message to the affected community. Gov. Idris appealed to the affected families to accept the will of God in good fate and prayed to Almighty Allah…
By Halimah Olamide The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday announced three joint winners for this year’s prize for Physics. The winners are Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. According to the Swedish Academy of Science, the award was given for what it called “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” NPO Reported on Monday that two joint winners emerged for the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
By Halimah Olamide A branch of the Dunamis Church has collapsed in Benue state killing a pastor in the process. The roof of the church located at the Mission Ward North Bank in Makurdi, the Benue State capital has reportedly caved in on Tuesday while a service was ongoing. While some other people were injured, the pastor whose name could not be independently confirmed as at press time, died on the spot. More details later…
By Halimah Olamide More corporate backers are falling in for the 7th annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), scheduled for Thursday, October 5 at the Abuja Continental Hotel (Old Sheraton) by 10am. Chairman of the 2023 Conference Planning Committee, Danlami Nmodu, revealed The Lagos and Kwara States government are the latest of institutions that have supported the summit. Operators in the corporate Nigeria that have thrown weight behind the event are the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). In a press statement by the Publicity Secretary of GOCOP, Mr. Remmy Nweke, he said…
Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mr Shaibu Abubakar-Audu, will not resign his position as All Progressives Party’s (APC) campaign Director-General for the Nov. 11 governorship election in Kogi. The state’s chapter of the party made the declaration on Monday in Lokoja. Media and Publicity Director of the Governorship Campaign Council, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, told newsmen that calls for Abubakar-Audu’s resignation were being orchestrated by “some hired goons’’ for “divisive reasons’’. The callers claimed that Abubakar-Audu would be soiling his image if he remained as the campaign council’s director-general following the dimension the campaigns had taken. “The Director-General of the…
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), has called for the immediate implementation of 25 and 35 per cent salary increments for workers in tertiary institutions. Mr Mohammed Ibrahim, National President, SSANU, said this in a communique issued on Monday in Abuja. The communique was issued at end of the 45th regular National Executive Council meeting(NEC) meeting of the association held in University of Maiduguri, Borno. He said NEC in session deliberated on issues of national importance as they concern members of the association. He noted that NEC recalled the renegotiation of salaries for its members with the c…
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has pleaded with Nigerians to persevere with President Bola Tinubu’s administration in view of the current economic situation. Ooni made the appeal during the visitation to his family compound as grand-finale of Olojo Annual Festival at Oketase area, Ile-Ife on Monday. He admitted that Nigeria is currently at its trial period when the citizens are facing a lot of challenges in all ramifications of life. “I know that people are passing through difficult period in which they are not finding life easy and truly this is a challenging period. “But I…
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Monday said it neutrlised several Boko Haram/Islamic States of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in air strikes in the Tumbuns on the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno. The Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, made this known in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Gabkwet said the air strikes obliterated the terrorists’ hideouts, destroyed their structures and strategic logistics base in the region. He said that Tumbun Fulani and Tumbun Shitu were struck between Sept. 27 and Sept. 30 after confirmation of the terrorists’ activities which constituted a threat…
A boat carrying about 22 passengers on board from Kasabu village in Agwara local government area of Niger to Yauri in Kebbi has capsized. Alhaji Salihu Garba, overseeing Director General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Monday. He said that the agency received a report of the boat mishap that occurred on Monday between 11am and 12 pm. According to him, a survivor of the mishap said that the boat has about 22 passengers on board. He said that search and rescue operations was ongoing by…
By Kamil Opeyemi Leaders of the Nigerian Labour and the Trade Union Congress have agreed with the government to suspend the commencement of their planned nationwide indefinite strike. The agreement was reached today after representatives of both the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress again met with the government to harmonize their positions. The labour Suspended the Proposed Indefinite Strike For 30-Days, according to the Minister of Labour And Employment Simon Lalong. NPO Reports that the organised labour was billed to commence an indefinite strike in the country on Tuesday. See the MOU Signed by Both Parties Leading to…