By Abdulfatah Babatunde Gunmen on Saturday morning intercepted a commercial bus on the fleet of the GOU Transport Company, killed the driver and kidnapped all 18 passengers in the bus on the Shagamu-Benin Expressway. TheNewsZenith gathered that the hoodlums killed the driver as he was about to make a U-turn on sighting them. The incident […]
By Our Correspondent For luring a minor with roasted meat (Suya) and defiling her, a 50-year-old security guard will spend this weekend in a Correctional facility in Lagos. An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court ordered that the guard, Mohammed Sanni, be remanded in the facility for allegedly defiling the 13-year-old girl. The presiding Chief Magistrate, O.A. Layinka […]
From Yinka Salaam, Osogbo A media watch group, Muslim Media Watch Group (MMWG), has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) not to shield any individual or group involved in financial crimes in the country. MMWG, a non-governmental organisation, made the call in a statement made available to TheNewsZenith on Friday, in Osogbo, […]
By Omo Odigie Not a few political observers have described Dr Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, APC’s leading aspirant for the Edo State gubernatorial race as a greenhorn in partisan politics, having retired as a federal civil servant in January this year. How wrong they all are as events have increasingly shown, lending credence to the biblical […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke Recently, I started a discourse on Telling Sustainable Development Stories. But the truth is, most mass media in Africa are at crossroads of playing the role of societal watchdog. Functioning as the fourth estate of the realm demands independence, objectivity, balance and a correct appreciation of differences between public and national interests […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke Father translates to Abu in Arabic. It’s a sign of honour to so prefix anyone with Abu, attaching one’s child to this honorific. Ummu is the woman version of this nomenclature. It’s also an honorific one can claim even before one’s child comes in the expectation that when he finally arrives, you […]
From Our Correspondent The Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan Enoh has secured the sum of N200m for the Super Eagles of Nigeria ahead of their semi-final clash at the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cote d’Ivoire. The Special Adviser Media to the Minister, Diana-Mary Nsan in a statement on Wednesday, […]
From Our Correspondent …..inducts 2 NAF helicopters President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has implored the Nigerian military and other security agencies to intensify efforts at containing the multi-dimensional security challenges in the country. The President gave the charge during the induction of two helicopters and an Aircraft, on Tuesday, in Makurdi, Benue State. TheNewsZenith reports that […]
From Our Correspondent The National Agency for Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed a bakery in Sokoto over repackaging of other products and operating in a poor sanitary environment. The NAFDAC Coordinator in Sokoto State, Mr Garba Adamu said on Tuesday that the unregistered bakery was shut with assistance from security men. Adamu said […]
By Our Correspondent The Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has stressed the need for Nigerian Medical Professionals in the Diaspora to unite and make impactful changes in the narratives of healthcare tourism in Nigeria. Dabiri-Erewa made these remarks as a Guest of Honour at the launch of ‘Women in Health […]