ASHENEWS reports that Sambo Danchadi has been posted to the Ministry of Information, as Sokoto state governor, Ahmed Aliyu assigns portfolios to the 25 new commissioners and members of the State Executive Council, who were sworn in on Tuesday evening.
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Reigning champion Tobi Amusan won her qualifying heat in the women’s 100 metres hurdles on Tuesday in Budapest to secure a spot in the semi-finals.
Tennis great Serena Williams has given birth to her second child, a girl named Adira River Ohanian.
ASHENEWS reports that the Kaduna state government says that 210,000 households will benefit from a special palliative program in the state.
The Sokoto state governor, Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto has appointed Labaran Lumu Dundaye as the Managing Director of the Sokoto State media Corporation.
On August 16, one of northwestern Nigeria’s most notorious bandits, Dogo Gide, released a video in which he claimed his fighters were responsible for downing a Nigerian air force helicopter in Shiroro, Kaduna State; this attack killed 20 soldiers and three senior military officers (premiumtimesng.com, August 16). Shiroro is where Ansaru, an al-Qaeda-affiliated and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)-loyal faction, attempted to recruit villagers and establish hideouts in 2021 (dailytrust.com, June 28, 2021). Ansaru also employed the same tactic when it shot down another air force helicopter en route from Kaduna to the Nigerian capital of Abuja in 2020 (punchng.com, February 6, 2020). These factors combine with reports of Dogo Gide allying with Ansaru to lend credibility to Gide’s claim that his group brought down the aforementioned helicopter (humangle.ng, June 9, 2020).
I must continue to beat the drum of peace as heinous fire is threatening my neighborhood, Niger republic. The Nigeria-Niger border has seven states – Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe, and Borno covering a distance of 1,608 km. Firing one shot in Niger will massively inject colossal wave of refugees into these states and escalate gigantic fire arms and ammunitions in the hands of non-state actors for nefarious activities. Is the restoration of President Mohamed Bazoum to power worth igniting the calamitous action of war in the West African Sub-region? Whose interest is ECOWAS trying to protect?
Nigeria’s vice President, Kashim Shettima, will depart Abuja for Johannesburg, South Africa to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 15th Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) Summit of Heads of State and Government. The Director Information, Office of the Vice President, Mr. Olusola Abiola, made this known in a statement, on Monday in Abuja. BRICS is a group of five major emerging and developing economies. He said Shettima would join other business and political leaders across the world at the Summit scheduled for the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg from August 22 to 24. Abiola disclosed that notable leaders…
ASHENEWS reports that the Kaduna state governor, Uba Sani on Monday announced the reduction of school fees for all state-owned institutions in the state.
The journalists who were brutally assaulted on Tuesday, August 15, 2023, in Bayelsa state have told IPC’s Centre for Safety and Protection of Journalists (I-CSPJ) that it was a needle-eye escape from the jaws of death.