The Police Command in Plateau has said that 10 persons were killed in Kashe (Sabon Layi) community, Kuru District of Jos South local government of the state. The spokesperson of the Command, ASP Ubah Ogaba disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Jos. Ogaba, who said the incident took place on Sunday night, explained that the killers invaded the community in Hilux van. “We received a report that ten persons were shot dead at a drinking joint at Sabon Layi, Kuru in Jos South by yet to be identified gunmen, who drove in with a Hilux and shot sporadically.…
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Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has advised candidates whose registration process is incomplete to visit special centres to finish the process. JAMB’s Head of Media Dr Fabian Benjamin gave the advice in a statement on Monday. Benjamin said the advice affected only those who could not complete their registration during the earlier scheduled registration period. He said only candidates whose names were compiled after giving reasons for incomplete registration process and had been contacted “are expected to visit the centres”. “At the end of the period originally scheduled for the 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry…
U.S. President Joe Biden is to take part in his debut NATO summit on Monday as the 30 countries look to turn their attention to external threats. The organisation will also seek to put the strained years of Donald Trump’s administration behind them. The NATO members are planning to call on China to respect international commitments and live up to its role as a major world power, NATO sources told dpa. They are also expected to urge the country to increase its transparency with regards to its nuclear abilities. This would be the first time NATO leaders take such an…
Mr Solomon Kumangar, the Director-General, Media to Adamawa governor Ahmadu Fintiri has boasted that, in project delivery, no representative of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from Adamawa could be compared to a council chairman under Fintiri administration. Kumangar was reacting on Sunday, to a statement credited to the opposition APC caretaker chairman in the state, Ibrahim Bilal that the APC lawmaker had performed better than the governor. Describing the statement as mere “jokes and fallacy”, Kumangar maintained that Bilal’s outburst against the governor was due to ignorance. According to him, if Fintiri’s government needed public rating of its stewardship, it…
Silvex International Ltd and Kano government are partnering to build an Agro-Industrial Park in the state. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Kano state governor Mr Abba Anwar made available to newsmen on Monday said the development is in a bid to ensure the transformation of commodity trading, stimulating agricultural value chain and food system efficiency. The proposed park, which objective is improve development of systematic agricultural value chain in various commodities in Nigeria and beyond, would be situated at Bunkure community within the Kano River Irrigation Project area. Receiving the company team led by Silvex’s CEO, Abubakar…
Bayero University Kano (BUK), has warned its students against protesting the death of a 200-level student, who was crushed by a moving vehicle. The Secretary, Information and Publication of the University, Lamara Garba, issued the warning in a statement on Sunday. He said that the deceased, Kamaluddeen Moshood of the department of accounting, died on Saturday at the National Orthopedic Hospital Dala, following injuries he sustained during the accident. Garba explained that Moshood was hit by a fast-moving vehicle outside the University on June 8, 2021, at about 10:00 pm. The secretary further said that on receiving the report of…
State governors under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have pledged to provide the needed platform for the party to return to power at the federal level in 2023. The Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum and Governor of Sokoto State, Governor Aminu Tambuwal, on Sunday made the pledge at a state banquet, organised by the Akwa-lbom state government, ahead of the forum meeting in Uyo. Tambuwal said that the PDP governors would not disappoint Nigerians who are looking up to them to actualise their yearnings for the party to return to power in 2023. “These star-studded leaders…
Governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will meet in Uyo, Akwa-lbom state, on Monday to discuss national issues, including economy, security and good governance. The Director-General of the PDP Governors Forum, CID Maduabum, in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, said that the governors will also discuss issues related to various agitations stretching Nigeria social fabric. Other issues on the agenda, according to Maduabum, includes emerging threats to democracy, rule of law and constitutionalism in Nigeria. He said that the governors would also discuss how to continue with good governance measures in their respective…
World Health Organisation (WHO) and COVAX partners on Sunday applauded G7 nations’ commitment to sharing 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to assist end the acute phase of the pandemic. WHO, in a statement, commended G7 countries for the commitment to delivering half of the 870 million doses by end of 2021. G7 countries are a group of the world’s seven largest advanced economies namely: United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Japan and United States “G7 reaffirmed their support for COVAX as the primary route for providing vaccines to the poorest countries,’’ it stated. In a landmark agreement at the…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Nigeria recorded only seven additional Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections, the lowest daily figure recorded since April 15, 2020, when the country registered 11 cases. The NCDC in an update posted on its website Monday morning, said the new infections had raised the country’s total infection tally to 167,066. While some countries such as the United States, Brazil, and India are witnessing a resurgence of the virus, Nigeria has witnessed a massive reduction in the rate of infection from an average of more than 1,000 daily cases between December 2020 and February 2021, to…