President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to flag off the construction of 3,112 housing units in the Karsana area of the Federal Capital Territory. The groundbreaking exercise, scheduled for Thursday is part of a Public-Private Partnership project signed in December 2023 between the Ministry and a consortium of companies comprising Continental Civil and General Construction…
The governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, says poverty, unemployment, hopelessness and lack of education are the major reasons insecurity is festering in the Northwestern part of the country Sani, who was a guest on a live television programme monitored by Ekweanaedo said that the issue of banditry and kidnapping in the North-west is different…
The Federal Government has said it will establish six new cancer treatment centres in teaching hospitals across the geopolitical zones of the country. Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Tunji Alausa, said this in Abuja on Tuesday during a ministerial press briefing organised by the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare…
President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday night, returned to Nigeria after a two-week private visit to Paris, France. The presidential jet touched down at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 9 pm. The President was received by top government officials, including his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila; Secretary to the…
All is now set for the semifinal clash between Nigeria and South Africa at the ongoing Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast All four remaining countries will be in action today, the other fixture will see host Ivory Coast take on DR Congo for a place in the final Incidentally all four countries have won…
Former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, who served two terms has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 74. Three other people aboard the aircraft survived when it came down in a lake near the southern town of Lago Ranco. Piñera had flown his own helicopter but there was no official confirmation he had…
The Nigerian Senate says the security chiefs summoned last week over the rising insecurity in the country will be grilled between February 7 and 8 to find a way to curb the menace of criminals in the country. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance, and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Adetokunbo Abiru (APC,…
Archaeologists in Morocco have unearthed more than 80 human footprints dating back around 100,000 years and believed to be the oldest in North Africa. The footprints, probably left by five homo sapiens, including children, were discovered on the coast of Larache, a city 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of Tangier, by archaeologists from Morocco, Spain,…
Following protests in Niger and Kano states over the high cost of living in the country, a meeting of the Presidential Committee on Emergency Food Intervention is about now taking place in the State House Abuja. The meeting, which was convened by the Chief of staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, has in attendance the…
A legal practitioner based in Rivers state has died after he collapsed and lost consciousness outside a courthouse in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital. The lawyer who is a native of Ibaa in Emohua LGA of the state identified as Eze Agala slumped just as he stepped outside the Magistrate Court building on Moscow…
