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Sale Mamman, the erstwhile Minister of Power, courted many controversies shortly after he assumed office in August 2019. First of such was the sacking of the former Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Mrs Damilola Ogunbiyi, over internal issues in December 2019. The federal government had reversed the sack to resignation. More internal crisis continued among the power sector agencies...

Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono, who was relieved of his duty as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, on Wednesday, has been under scrutiny over a number of issues, which drew adversaries to him. Since taking charge of agric ministry on August 21, 2019, Nanono has been involved in one controversy or the other. Perhaps, the most wave Nanono made as a...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says forcing or coercing people into vaccination violates the fundamental right of individuals. CAN President and Co-Chairman, Nigeria Inter-Religious Council, Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, said this in Abuja on Wednesday. He was responding to the Federal Government’s position on considering sanctioning those refusing to take COVID-19 vaccine. He said the COVID-19 vaccines available in Nigeria were far...

Abia Born, US based entertainment icon, Mayor Lucky Igbokwe has mourned the demise of Lady Victoria Aguiyi Ironsi and Nneoha Adanma Okpara. In a Condolence message said by Don Lulu and sighted by TN24, he eulogized the two women as pillars of their respective families. Read full condolence message:i I wsh to express my heartfelt sympathies over the death of Chief Mrs...

The Kaduna State government on Sunday night confirmed the killing of Capt. Abdulkarim Ibn Na’Allah, the son of the Senator representing Kebbi South Senatorial District, Bala Na’Allah. The deceased, a trained pilot, was killed by suspected bandits at his Malali residence in the Government Reservation Area (GRA), Kaduna North local government area of the state. The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security...

The federal government on Sunday berated the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) for giving it 21 days as an ultimatum to resolve the industrial dispute between it, resident doctors and other affiliated unions of the association. The NMA had on Saturday in a communiqué issued at the end of its NEC meeting, which was signed by its president, Prof. Innocent Ujah...

The 27th of August every year is special to Abia and Abians as it is was the day the labours of the founding fathers of Abia state yielded fruit, the day Abia was created out of the old Imo State. Just like yesterday and to the glory of God, Abia is already 30 with Several milestones as achievements and not...

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State on Wednesday explained the reasons the state’s residents did not comply with the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB). The governor said only a constituted authority like his government could give order on when people should stay away from their work or businesses. Uzodinma spoke while fielding questions from State House reporters...

More than 20 corpses were on Wednesday dumped at the main gate of Plateau State Government House following an attack on Yelwan Zangam village in Jos North Local Government Area of the state. The protest by hundreds of angry youths was the aftermath of Tuesday’s night attack on Yelwan Zangam, a community inhabited by the Anaguta ethnic group in the...

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, has said the Army would engage retired military officers to tackle insecurity in the northeast. He disclosed this on Tuesday at a one-day interactive session with retired senior officers from the north-eastern zone held at the 23 Armoured Brigade in Yola, Adamawa State. “It is part of the reason why I am...