President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed “overwhelming joy” over release of abducted female students of Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe, in Zamfara. While reacting to the development in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Tuesday, the President said: “I join the families and people of Zamfara in welcoming and celebrating the release of these traumatized female students.” President Buhari said he was excited that their ordeal came to a happy end without any incident, adding that “being held in captivity is an agonizing experience not only for the victims, but also their families and all of…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says the power sector has recorded an all-time national peak of 5,615.40MW. A statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos by Ms Ndidi Mbah, General Manager, Public Affairs, TCN, said the new record was achieved on Feb. 28. The statement said the power generated was efficiently transmitted through the nation’s transmission grid at a frequency of 50.20Hz by 9.30pm on the said date. According to the statement, this transmission surpassed the previous peak generation of 5,593 40MW which occurred on Feb. 25 by 22.0MW. It said : “Also, on Feb.26, 2021, TCN equally transmitted a…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced eight deaths and 360 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths to 1,915 and infections to 156,017 in the country. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday. The 360 infections marked an increase from Sunday’s report of 240 in the country. The NCDC said that the new infections were reported across 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory. “One hundred and twenty (120) of the new cases were reported in Lagos, 38 in Edo, 25 in Kaduna, 23 cases each in FCT and Imo…
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo will pick dates on which they will be vaccinated publicly, with the first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which is about four million doses, expected to arrive in Nigeria on Tuesday. The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 briefing on Monday in Abuja. Shuaib said that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and chairman of the PTF on COVID-19, Mr. Boss Mustapha, would liaise with other key strategic persons to fix the date for the public…
One of the victims of last Friday’s Zamfara Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, abduction, Hafsat Anka, said the captives threatened to kill, fry and eat them if they misbehaved. Hafsat, while narrating her ordeal at the Government House, Gusau, shortly after regaining freedom, stated that they trekked over a long distance from the school, had a stopover for some hours before they reached their destination. “There was no clean water or good food, and we felt we had already spent years even though it was our first day and the bandits kept firing into the air to scare us. “They…
Governor Bello Muhammad of Zamfara says repentant bandits in the state assisted security agencies in the operation that led to the rescue of Jangebe school girls. The governor, who received the girls at about 5a.m on Tuesday in Gusau, said the 279 girls were returned safely without paying any ransom. “This is the result of our peace effort and putting to shame all those saying there is no security in this country. “We have been in discussion since Friday with the abductors and reached agreement on Monday by 4pm that the girls were released. “We are happy that all 279…
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, says he doesn’t drink at all, in reaction to a statement credited to a serving Senator who described him as a drunk. Ikpeazu said at the launch of the autobiography of Sen. Eyinnaya Abaribe (PDP-Abia) “Made in Aba”, in Abuja on Monday that he doesn’t drink at all. “Permit me to say that I don’t drink at all and I don’t begrudge those who drink. “In other places or countries that have lesser problems, their leaders discuss issues of security, big issues of economic development, infrastructure development, they don’t talk about what people do and…
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said that Nigerians under the age of 18 years will not receive the COVID-19 vaccines in the country. The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora, said that the Federal Government planned to cover 70 per cent of Nigerians within two years. Mamora warned that private organisations were not permitted to procure, distribute and administer the coronavirus vaccines. To ensure a smooth management of the four million vaccines arriving on Tuesday, Mamora said the PTF had approved the TEACH strategy and the electronic management immunisation system. He said that the strategy…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has jammed the signals of a pirate radio claiming to be “Radio Biafra” in most parts of Lagos, an official of NBC has said. Mr Ekanem Antia, the Deputy Director, Public Affairs of NBC, made the disclosure in a statement by the management of the commission on Monday in Abuja. Antia explained that the illegal radio which broadcast incendiary messages was notorious for spewing fake, inflammatory and inciting content. “The NBC Act, CAP N11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 spells out in chapter two, subsection two, that: No person shall operate or use any…
Adamawa state governor, Ahmadu Fintiri has observed that before the scourge of drug abuse destroys Nigeria, governments at all levels in the country, should join hands with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in the war against the menace. The governor made the call when he received the Chairman of NDLEA, Buba Marwa, who paid him a courtesy visit on Monday while on familiarisation and assessment tour of the state Command of the Agency. The governor thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing Marwa to lead the war against drugs in the country. “As our son and leader in Adamawa,…