The palace of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi has been gutted by fire. The fire outbreak was suspected to have been ignited by suspected arsonists late on Friday night. ALSO READ [BREAKING] Court nullifies law dissolving 4 Kano Emirates According to sources, the fire destroyed a part of the palace at the Gidan Rumfa that the 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, occupies. ALSO READ Kano emirate: We must scrutinize professional conduct of lawyers, judges – NBA “It was the palace at Kofar Kudu. You know the palace has an entrance from inside while the main entrance is from the…
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Our debt-to-GDP ratio, which used to be far, far below 50, which used to be around 20 to 23, 25, is now close to 50%,” he said.
Bitcoin pumped to a near $60,000 following the announcement of the United States CPI yesterday but appears to have retraced from the surge at the time of the report. The total market capitalization of all crypto assets also dropped to a little over $2.2 trillion.
“The motive for profit must not overshadow the safety of lives. And we are going to take steps immediately to do a technical audit of all the schools, we are going to test their structural integrity to ensure that human beings can inhabit such buildings.”
Barely less than 24 hours after a school building collapsed on pupils in Plateau State, killing 22 and injuring 132, four people have been rescued after a section of a two-storey residential apartment collapsed in Abuja on Saturday morning. Unconfirmed number of other people are trapped in the rubble. It is also 11 days after another building collapsed at Unity House, Area 11, Garki, in Abuja. ALSO READ Truth under fire: The multi-front assault on facts during the 2023 Nigerian election One person is still trapped in the rubble of the residential building located in the Kubwa area of the Federal Capital…
“Our people don’t know how much states expend in bailing out local governments, and that’s the issue there.”
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has sued a member of the State, Henry Marah, and ChannelsTV claiming N3 billion as damages for alleged defamation. The suit followed an interview granted by Mr Marah on ChannelsTV on June 5 after an ad-hoc committee set up by the Kaduna State House of Assembly submitted its report on the eight-year tenure of Mr El-Rufai. In a concurrent writ of summons filed by his legal representatives, A. U. Mustapha and Co., dated July 8, Mr El-Rufai said the lawmaker’s utterances during the programme were malicious, defamatory, injurious and had caused him loss of…
A tragic incident occurred at Saints Academy in Busa Buji, Jos North of Plateau state, where a two-story school building collapsed on Friday morning, resulting in the death of at least 12 individuals and injuring dozens more. The collapse trapped more than 70 pupils and their teachers, transforming the educational environment into a scene of chaos and panic. Residents and emergency workers quickly rushed to the scene to assist with desperate cries for help filling the air. Rescue efforts involved both local volunteers and professional emergency workers battling the rubble to reach those trapped underneath. ALSO READ DMGS centenary building…
“An election was conducted, and the declaration was made on October 25, 2021, by the Returning Officer at the Birnin-Gwari Local Government Chamber,” Nagwari stated. “Despite a court order served to the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIECOM) on January 12, 2022, to issue a certificate of return to the winner, the order was not obeyed.”
“It is crucial to emphasize that Atiku Bagudu has consistently upheld the values and principles of our nation, which include respecting our cultural and religious beliefs,” the statement read.