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The closure of many markets across the North West is taking a heavy toll on bandits. At least four governors closed markets in their states as part of measures to check banditry. Few days after the closure of markets in some rural areas in Sokoto, bandits demanded food to release their captives. A resident of Sabo Birni, who pleaded anonymity told our...

Gunmen have kidnapped Senator Nelson Effiong, the senator who represented Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District in the 8th National Assembly. It was gathered that Senator Effiong, also a former speaker of the state House of Assembly, was seized by three armed hoodlums at his lounge, on Oron Road, Uyo on Sunday night. It was learnt that eight people were injured when...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has asked the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to make the cut-off mark scores of students from the north to be the same as their counterparts in the south. El-Rufai, during a live appearance on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily Monday, noted that standardization of the scores would make students from the North to be...

The Andy Uba Campaign Council has refuted assertions that Uba, an APC candidate for Anambra governorship elections, promised to introduce open grazing if elected governor. His campaign council called the assertions the “height of mischief for any person to say that” and blamed the rival All Progressives Grand Alliance for the claim. Director-general of the Andy Uba Campaign Council, Paul Chukwuma,...

Evicted BBNaija Housemate, Boma, says he feels like the most hated guy on the continent. Boma has been trending on social media since he was evicted from the game on Sunday. His romantic involvement with Tega, a married housemate, had triggered backlash. Speaking in an interview with Classic FM, Abuja, on Tuesday, Boma said he only acted a script. He said it...

The federal government has insisted that the no-work-no pay policy will be enforced on the striking members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). The government also said it would withdraw the case it instituted against the striking doctors only if they went back to their duty post. The NARD has been on strike since August 2, 2021 over “irregular...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, will today interrogate Chief Judges of six states over issuance of conflicting orders. The Chief Judges of Rivers, Kebbi, Cross River, Anambra, Jigawa and Imo States had been summoned. Senior officials of the National Judicial Council Sunday confirmed that the CJN had demanded the records of proceedings in all the suits from which...

Pundits have given reasons why the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders are keeping an eye on former President Goodluck Jonathan to dump the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pitch tent with the ruling party. Since the visit of APC governors led by Yobe State governor and chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, on the occasion...

The World Health Organisation has revealed that it is monitoring a new coronavirus “variant of interest” named Mu – also known by its scientific name as B.1.621. This was disclosed by Dr. Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the WHO, at a UN press briefing in Geneva on Wednesday. In its weekly epidemiological update, WHO warned that the variant was becoming increasingly...

A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, on Wednesday, sacked the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, as the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The court restrained the interim chairman and others from parading themselves as members of the party’s CECPC until the determination of a substantive suit before the court. This comes...