The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says it has carved out a new transmission region in Kano from the old Kaduna Region. This brings to 10 the number of TCN regional operation centres in the region. TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Friday. She said that the creation of the Kano transmission region became necessary owing to the rapid economic and industrial development being witnessed within Kano State and its environs. “Kano transmission region has under its supervision one sub-regional office and several Work Centres, all housing 13 Transmission…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Nigeria did not record any death from COVID-19 for the last 14 consecutive days, maintaining the death toll of 2,117. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said this through its verified website on Saturday morning. It, however, said infection rate was rising, reporting 13 additional cases as of June 18, 2021. According to it, the new cases are from Delta, with nine cases, while Gombe and Rivers, two cases each. The agency noted that five people were discharged after successful treatment at isolation centres across the country. It added that 163,540 patients were discharged from hospitals and isolation centres across…
A tanker conveying 45,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) crashed on Saturday, spilling its content at Community Road, Ijegun-Imore by Navy Town, Lagos causing panic among residents. The acting coordinator of the Southwest zonal office of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Ibrahim Farinloye confirmed the development. The incident occurred barely 48 hours after a truck carrying Liquefied Petroleum Gas exploded at Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos, killing five persons, injuring 11 others and destroying 25 vehicles in the explosion. The explosion also damaged a part of the Ogun State Property Investment Company (OPIC) Plaza, housing several…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto has disclosed that the state government is working on strategies protect informers, who provide intelligence to security agencies against criminal activities taking place in their domains. The governor made the disclosure when he received the new General Officer Commanding (GOC) 8 Division of the Nigerian Army and the Force Commander North-West (Operation Hadarin Daji), Maj. Gen. Usman Yusuf at Government House, Sokoto on Thursday. “The state government is working on how protection will be given to people who give key information to security personnel, because people are scared of giving useful information. “We have had…
The Kebbi State Police Command has revealed that the bandits that kidnapped students and teachers of Government Federal College Yauri used a vehicle belonging to the state High Court judge. The Command’s spokesperson, Nafi’u Abubakar in a statement on Friday said the bandits had earlier hijacked the vehicle along Kebbi- Yauri road. “The attention of the police has been drawn to reports made by some media stations that a police vehicle was used in kidnapping about 50 students of the Federal Government College. “A white Hilux van with registration KBSJ 29 belonging to a High Court judge with inscription of…
The Nigerian troops operating under Operation Hadarin Daji, have rescued two teachers and five students abducted on Thursday from Federal Government College Yauri, the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu said in a statement on Friday. According to him, the rescue by the troops who have been on a hot pursuit of the kidnappers and bandits, came after a fierce exchange of fire with the criminals. Nwachukwu however stated that a female student was found dead as a result exhaustion. “The rescue followed an initial encounter with the abductors in the early hours of today 18 June 2021…
By Lizzy Carr, Bauchi Death toll from cholera outbreaks in Bauchi state has risen to 42, the chairperson of the state primary healthcare develoment agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed has disclosed. Giving an update in an interview with ASHENEWS on Friday, Mohammed said Bauchi local government has the highest number of recorded death with 22 deaths and 2,185 infections, followed by Toro local government area, which recorded eight deaths and 212 infections. ASHENEWS recalls that Bauchi state, as at 16th June, recorded 2,874 cases in 16 local government areas and neighbouring Bassa local government area of Plateau state.
The Presidency says President Muhammadu Buhari will participate in the 59th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana, on Saturday. The President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this development in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Shehu said the president would depart Abuja on Saturday to join other Heads of State of Government of ECOWAS for the mid-year statutory meeting of the regional bloc. He, however, stated that Mali would not be participating in the summit following its recent suspension from the group. According to him, former President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, ECOWAS…
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the MTN Group to make available top- of-the-range service to its Nigerian subscribers. The president made the call when he received in audience members of the board of MTN Group, led by its President and Chief Executive Officer, Ralph Mupita, at the State House, Abuja, on Friday. Buhari said: “I congratulate you on your appointment as the Group President of MTN. I wish you all the best. “Nigeria is your most lucrative market in Africa, Asia and the Middle East as well as the source of a third of the income of the entire MTN…
Kaduna state governor, Nasir El’Rufai says the government sacked 99 political appointees as part of its right sizing. El-Rufai made the disclosure at news briefing on Friday, saying that the government was yet to disengage any state civil servant in the state. The governor explained that the disengaged political appointees constituted 30 per cent of political office holders in the state. The governor disclosed that only agencies connected to the local government system had disengaged staff and these included the 23 local government councils, SUBEB and the Primary Health Care Board. ‘’So far, 99 political appointees have lost their jobs but…