The Edo State government has indefinitely postponed the resumption of all schools in the state due to the recent rise in petrol prices.
Ojo Akin-Longe, the Permanent Secretary of the State Ministry of Education, announced the decision in a memo issued on Saturday.
The National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited raised the...
Twelve years after its establishment, the Maryam Abacha American University of Niger (MAAUN), in Maradi, Niger Republic, has produced five Provosts of Nursing Colleges in Borno, Yobe, and Bauchi States.
Dr. Hadiza Sabo, a graduate of Nursing from the university, is the current Provost of Shehu Sule College of Nursing and Midwifery in Damaturu,...
The Federal Government has unveiled plans to set up blood collection centres in all 774 local government areas, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to ensure the availability of blood for medical emergencies and transfusions.
Abdullahi Haruna, Head of Media and Publicity at the National Blood Service Agency (NBSA), made this announcement in a...
The recent trending discourse on Arewa cyberspace is on Ɗan Bello, a popular satirist, who is using his satirical social media content to scrutinize the anti-developmental social and political cultures and behaviours of politicians, civil servants, security agencies, religious leaders, and the general public. Undoubtedly, he is raising a new wave of social and political change in...
The Director General of the National Productivity Centre (NPC), Dr. Baffa Babba Danagundi, has urged the agency's State Coordinators to act as anti-corruption ambassadors by reporting any instances of corruption to the nearest EFCC office.
Dr. Danagundi made this call following a working visit to the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
Sheikh Bashar Danfili, a prominent cleric in Sokoto State, has urgently appealed for financial assistance from the public after bandits abducted six of his relatives on their way to an undisclosed village in the state.
In a brief video shared on social media, Sheikh Danfili revealed that the victims include a man, his mother,...
The Federal Government has approved a 50 per cent increase in the feeding allowance for inmates in Nigeria’s Custodial Centres, which will take effect from August 2024. This decision is part of ongoing efforts to improve the welfare of inmates.
At the Strategic Communications Interagency Policy Committee’s monthly press briefing in Abuja, Umar Abubakar,...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, has condemned the alarming toll of road traffic crashes, which claimed the lives of 2,776 people and left 16,309 others injured between January and July this year.
Speaking during the launch of the FRSC Mobile App and National Crash Reporting Information System...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has restrained the Kano State Independence Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) from charging or imposing N10m and N5m from contestants for the offices of Chairman/Vice Chairman and Councillorship in the forthcoming local government election.
The presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, granted the order on Wednesday.
The...
Two people lost their lives, and two others were rescued after a two-storey building collapsed in Nomansland, Fagge Local Government Area, Kano State.
The incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Thursday, following heavy rainfall.
Eyewitnesses told Kano Times that the collapse was caused by severe flooding due to the overflow of...
