The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Thursday, said it lost four men to smugglers in 2022 and arrested 176 suspected smugglers. The Acting Controller of the unit, Deputy Comptroller Hussein Ejibunu, announced this at a news conference in Lagos. In the year under review, Ejibunu said the unit […]
The authorities of the Kaduna State University (KASU) has began a three-day retreat to reposition the institution for global competitiveness. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdullahi Musa, disclosed this at the opening of a retreat, on Tuesday, in Kaduna. Musa said that the goal was to enable the university to solve societal challenges through research. “A Teaching […]
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says it rescues 1,088 migrants and returned them to Libya in the past week. “In the period between Dec. 25 and Dec. 31, 2022, 1,088 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya,” the IOM said in a statement. The rescued migrants included 312 women and 776 children, it added. […]
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Korea hit a record high last year. This is due to surging investment in the manufacturing industry, government data showed on Tuesday. The reported FDI grew 3.2 per cent over the year to 30.45 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, topping 30 billion dollars for the first time, according to […]
The Police, on Monday, said they neutralised a suspected terrorist and repelled his group’s attack on Magamar-Jibia in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. The state command’s spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, announced this in a statement Monday evening in Katsina. “Today Monday, Jan. 2, at about 0430 hours, terrorists in their numbers, shooting sporadically […]
Following a fresh outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus at a farm in west Denmark, authorities say they will cull 50,000 chickens. The country’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries announced this in a press statement in Copenhagen on Monday. “Deadly and highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus infected the flock. “As a result, […]
The Libyan authorities, on Monday, said they discovered eight unidentified bodies in the city of Tarhuna, some 90 kilometres south of the capital Tripoli. “The field teams from the Excavation Department recovered eight unidentified bodies from a dump site in Tarhuna.” The General Authority for Research and Identification announced this in a statement. Read Related […]
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki expressed his outrage on Monday to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal over the celebration of the birthday of the controversial Ukrainian nationalist, Stepan Bandera. On Jan. 1, the Ukrainian authorities held a series of events on the occasion of Bandera’s birthday. “I don’t have enough words of indignation about all […]
PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State, Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), says elites’ apathy to the democratic process in Nigeria had slowed down gains and dividends of democratic rules. Adediran, who is the convener of the Lagos-4-Lagos Movement, made the remarks in an interaction with newsmen in Lagos. He said that until elites get involved in the […]
The PDP governorship candidate for Lagos State, Dr Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (a.k.a Jandor), says he will establish an airline for the state if elected governor in the 2023 general election. Adediran told newsmen in Lagos on Thursday that the state had enough resources to establish an airline. He said that the establishment of an airline […]