Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has broken the jinx on reconstruction of two roads in water-locked communities by performing the groundbreaking ceremony for the projects, on Monday. TheNewsZenith reports that for about 50 years, the communities have pleaded with previous administrations to rehabilitate the roads without success. Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, Director-General, Press and […]
Sen. Abubakar Kyari, APC National Deputy Chairman, has announced the resignation of Senators Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore as the party’s National Chairman and National Secretary respectively. Kyari made the announcement while speaking with newsmen at the end of the party’s National Working Committee’s (NWC) emergency closed-door meeting he presided over, on Monday in Abuja. […]
From Our Correspondent A Chief Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Makurdi on Monday, ordered that 10 suspected cultists be remanded in a correction centre for allegedly killing a 22-year-old boy, Samson Ajekonye. The suspects, who live at various addresses in Apa LGA, are facing charges of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide. Prosecuting counsel, Insp Godwin Ato, […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reaffirmed Africa’s unity and strength and strongly rejected the notion of a new scramble for Africa on Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya. The President made the affirmation at the Fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting (5thMYCM) of the African Union (AU) and other relevant fora of the continental body as […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 19-year-old student, Nnamani Daberechi for being in possession of 7.2 kilogrammes of Methamphetamine. The suspect allegedly concealed the substance in a crayfish sack in an attempt to export it. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, announced the arrest in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi […]
By Our Correspondent in Abeokuta At least, four persons died in a lone accident involving a commercial bus on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in the early hour of Sunday in Ogun State. The NewsZenith gathered that 11 other passengers in the bus, marked AGL989YA, sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident at the Aiyetoro axis […]
From Our Correspondent in Ilorin The Commissioner of Police in Kwara State, Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi, on Saturday, personally led a special operation to rescue kidnapped victims in Isin forests in Isanlu-Isin. Spokesman of the command, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, announced the operation in a statement on Saturday in Ilorin. Ajayi said in another kidnapping incident in Isanlu-Isin […]
By Our Correspondent It was a sorrowful Saturday for the family of a teenage girl hawking eggs on the ever-busy Lagos road as an articulated truck crushed her to death. TheNewsZenith reports that the accident occurred on the Otedola bridge along Lagos/Ibadan expressway at about 3.30 p.m. No one could identify the teenage girl at […]
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is attending the mid-year coordination meeting of the African Union in Nairobi, Kenya as Nigeria has fulfilled its financial obligations to the Union. Abiodun Oladunjoye, State House Information Director, in a statement on Saturday, said Nigeria had fully paid its contributions for 2023. The statement quoted the Permanent Secretary (PS), Ministry […]
Gov. Bassey Otu of Cross River State has pledged to complete the abandoned 39-kilometre Ukelle Road in Yala Local Government Area, connecting Benue State. Otu stated this on Saturday during an assessment visit to the road project abandoned about two decades ago. He made the plea during a meeting with the Clan Head of Wanokom, […]