July 29, 2022

Eight Reported Dead As Fire Erupts In Moscow Building

Eight Reported Dead As Fire Erupts In Moscow Building

July 29, 2022 9:59 pm

Eight people have reportedly perished in a blaze which had occurred in a 15-storey building in Moscow on Friday overnight, after a fire alarm had malfunctioned.

The fire had erupted in the building in a southeastern district, an agency investigating criminal acts said, adding that four people were hospitalised. Emergency services said the blaze broke out on the ground floor of the building, adding that the flames were doused soon after midnight and that more than 200 people were evacuated.

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A senior emergency official told TASS news agency that …

Move Exams From Sallah Day, Islamic Group Urges NECO

5 States Are Still Owing Us Over ₦2bn – NECO Laments

July 29, 2022 9:09 pm

The National Examinations Council (NECO) which is an examination board in Nigeria has revealed that five states in the country are yet to remit their examination fees of their candidates which is worth over ₦2 billion, spanning from 2012 to date.

Prof Dantani Wushishi who is the Registrar of NECO had made this revalation in an interview with newsmen on Friday, in Lagos.

He was in the state to monitor the ongoing 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) organized by the council.

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Wushishi said; “We are using this opportunity …

EFCC Apprehends 140 Suspected Yahoo Boys In Lagos

EFCC Storms Bureau De Change Firms As Naira Crashlands

July 29, 2022 9:08 pm

Some Economic and Financial Crimes Commission the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,  EFCC operatives have on Friday raided the Abuja Wuse Zone 4 which is the  home to most bureaux de change isitutuitios in Abuja.

The raid which had been conducted on other locations across the country had been undertaken days after the CBN blamed currency speculators for exacerbating the crash of the naira against the dollar and other foreign currencies.

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An authoritative source at the commission told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the raid …

Seven Reported Dead In UAE Flooding After Unseasonable Rains

Seven Reported Dead In UAE Flooding After Unseasonable Rains

July 29, 2022 4:59 pm

It has been reported that at least seven people have been killed in the United Arab Emirates after a barrage of unseasonable downpours had triggered flash flooding in eastern districts of the normally parched Gulf state, authorities said.

“We regret to announce that six people of Asian nationalities have been found dead as a result of the floods,” the interior ministry’s chief of central operations, Ali al-Tunaiji, said.

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The ministry later announced the death of a seventh Asian migrant.

July temperatures in the UAE regularly hit 40 …

Army Reshuffled As Top Officers Are Redeployed Due To Insecurity

Army Reshuffled As Top Officers Are Redeployed Due To Insecurity

July 29, 2022 12:41 pm

As a result of the rising spate of insecurity in the country, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has made the approval of the redeployment of some top military officers and also the  appointment of new ones as insecurity rages in Nigeria.

The appointments had been announced in a statement issued by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, on Thursday in Abuja.

Nwachukwu said the new postings and appointments were done in an effort to reposition the army for operational efficiency.

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According to him, …

How 727 Nigerian Doctors Migrated To UK In 5 Months - Report

UNIOSUN Resident Doctors Down Tools Over Rate Of Insecurity

July 29, 2022 12:33 pm

Some of the members of the Association of Resident Doctors in the Osun State University chapter have on Friday, convened an emergency general meeting which was to discuss the spate of insecurity in the hospital environment.

The association had also described the working environment around the hospital as porous and life-threatening while adding that their members were daily exposed to incessant attacks by hoodlums.

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This was contained in a statement signed by the President of the association, Dr Solomon Ilori and Secretary, Dr Felix Olaomi, the …

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Atiku Congratulates New CAN President, Mulls Interfaith Relations

July 29, 2022 9:35 am

Atiku Abubakar  who is the the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), 2023 Presidential candidate, former Vice President, has also congratulated and felicitated with the newly elected President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Most Rev. Daniel Chukwudumebi Okoh.

The Waziri Adamawa had also charged the new CAN President to forge interfaith relations in Nigeria. He also assured him of total support for the promotion of peace and unity in Nigeria.

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Atiku on his verified Facebook page, on Friday, stated “I wish to congratulate Archbishop Daniel Okoh, the General …

Sheikh Gumi Smashes Buhari Over Abuja Terrorist Attacks

Sheikh Gumi Smashes Buhari Over Abuja Terrorist Attacks

July 29, 2022 9:20 am

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi who is the Controversial Islamic Cleric, has finally reacted to terrorist attacks on the Guards Brigade and some other places in Abuja.

Gumi had reiterated that insecurity should be expected because President Muhammadu Buhari rewards failure with an Ambassadorial appointment.

He was reacting to the Federal Government’s plan to sanction the BBC Africa Eye and Daily Trust over their recent reports on the issue of politics of insecurity.

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A statement by Gumi blamed illiteracy for the insecurity in the North.

“What do you expect from a society (Fulani) that …

Hanifa Kano Court Sentences Proprietor To Death By Hanging

Hanifa: Kano Court Sentences Proprietor To Death By Hanging

July 29, 2022 6:42 am

The Kano State High Court has sentenced the proprietor of Nobel Kids Academy and North West Preparatory School, Abdulmalik Tanko, to death for the kidnap and killing of five-year-old schoolgirl, Hanifa Abubakar which had generated outrage a few months ago.

The Presiding Judge, Justice Usman Na’abba, also sentenced Tanko to five years imprisonment for the four-count charges leveled against him.

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, earlier this year had vowed to sign the death sentence without further delay if given by the court.

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Until her death, Hanifa was a pupil of …

Nigeria Is Broke, Can’t Fund Capital Projects In 2023 - Ngige

Nigeria Is Broke, Can’t Fund Capital Projects In 2023 – Ngige

July 29, 2022 6:34 am

Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige has claimed that the country is bankrupt at the moment noting that even the funds for capital projects in 2023 will be a major challenge. 

Addressing a media briefing, on Thursday in Abuja, to mark the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour, the minister stated that the Federal Government does not have money to prosecute capital projects next year, a development which might worsen unemployment and poverty.

He equally told students of federal universities that negotiating separately with members of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would not resolve …

Nigeria Approves Increment Of WAEC Fees

Nigeria Approves Increment Of WAEC Fees

July 29, 2022 5:59 am

The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) increase their examination fees from ₦13,000 to ₦18, 000 for West African Secondary School Certificate (WASSC internal).

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the rise in fees was also applicable for external candidates who would love to participate in the examination.

Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who confirmed the planned increment at a meeting with officials of WAEC in Abuja, on Thursday, confirmed that the upward review of WAEC fees was in response to the rising cost of operations and other logistics required for …

Nigerian Govt Moves To Halt Exportation Of Raw Minerals

Nigerian Govt Moves To Halt Exportation Of Raw Minerals

July 29, 2022 5:51 am

The Federal Government of Nigeria has revealed that it has now embarked on a move to end the exportation of raw minerals in the country to aid in the diversification of the economy, job creation, and industrialisation of the country.

Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, disclosed this while briefing journalists in Abuja, today.

He lamented that Nigeria is up till now still exporting crude oil as traded for refined petroleum products.

He said the state would take advantage of the abundant solid minerals in their area to improve its revenue generation.

He said: ‘As we started …

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