The Zamfara State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called on the state government to create special camps to contain the surging Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). ASHENEWS reports that the plea is contained in a Communique issued at the end of the union’s congress meeting held in Gusau on Saturday. “The Congress express deep concern over the high rate of IDPs occasioned by security challenges in the state and called on Zamfara state government to either establish IDP camps. “As part of the resolutions unanimously reached at the congress is call on the state government to either…
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Argentina has emerged winner of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Argentine team beat France 5-3 to win the cup. ASHENEWS reports that Messi scored one goal at penalty kick with Angel Di Maria scoring the third for the South American country. However, France’s Kylian Mbappe scored an exhilarating hattrick in to take the 2022 World Cup final into extra time. Two of those goals came in 97 seconds interval from Mbappe. However, Argentina went on to win the eventual penalty shootout.
Nigerian Christian pilgrims totalling 300 and sponsored by Enugu state government, have arrived Amman, the capital of Jordan for the 2022 pilgrimage in the Holy Land. They arrived in the early hours of December 17 for a 9-day pilgrimage to historical sites of the teachings of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Bible. At the first day of visit, the pilgrims were conducted round the historic site of the Citadel that is located on a hill in Amman’s downtown area. The Citadel is home to the remains and incredible creations of past civilizations that occupied Jordan’s capital city. At the…
By The Quest Times Mr Fidelis Okoya arrived Lagos, Nigeria, from the United States on December 5, 2022 and commenced processes to renew his international passport and obtain his NIN (National Identification Number) almost immediately. “I wanted to renew my passport in the US but I reckoned that doing it back home would be swifter and easier, more so because the President Buhari-led federal government and the Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola, have been talking a lot about how the passport issuance process has been reformed and how you can get your passport in double-quick time,” Okoya tells Quest Times. While…
North Korea test-fired a pair of ballistic missiles with a potential range of striking Japan on Sunday, in a possible protest of Tokyo’s adoption of a new security strategy to push for more offensive footing against North Korea and China. The launches came two days after the North claimed to have performed a key test needed to build a more mobile, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the U.S. mainland. The two missiles traveled from the country’s northwest Tongchangri area about 500 kilometers (310 miles) at a maximum altitude of 550 kilometers (340 miles) before landing in the waters between the Korean Peninsula…
“What happened today is an earthquake; from this moment we consider Saied an illegitimate president and demand he resign after this fiasco” Tunisia’s “Salvation Front” opposition coalition called for President Kais Saied to quit office, saying he had lost his legitimacy after Saturday’s parliamentary election had a preliminary turnout figure of less than 9%. The election was part of a series of political changes made by Saied after he shut down the previous parliament last year and then rewrote the constitution in moves his critics have called a coup. The Front, made up of several political parties including the Islamist…
A political group known as the Igbo Political Voice (IPV) on Saturday said that only credible candidates would earn its support in the 2023 general elections. The Convener of the group, known for its grassroots voter mobilisation, Mr Earnest Okoye, stressed the position of the body at a political retreat held at Amuwo Odofin, Lagos. The event, which attracted political gladiators from mainly the Labour Party, was to streamline the political permutations for candidates in the area. Potential voters and IPV members were sensitised to take the message of voting for credible candidates, irrespective of their political parties, to the…
A socio-cultural group, Iko Udama has called on Nigerians to pick up their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from designated centres as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Chairman of Iko Udama, Mr Amodu Achema, said this at the end of the group’s Annual General Meeting in Abuja on Saturday. He said it was better for Nigerians to turn out en mass while the forthcoming elections were still months away than wait till the last minute. Achema said while it was not bad to speak about one’s preferred candidate, what would determine the outcome of the election was…
The Nigeria Police Force has warned Nigerians to shun acts capable of jeopardising the 2023 general elections. The spokesperson for the Force Headquarters, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi gave the advice when he spoke on Sunday in Ibadan at the close of a conference organised for police spokesmen. Adejobi noted that elections must be peaceful to produce the good governance for which Nigerians yearned. He called on Nigerians to shun hooliganism, thuggery, vandalism and acts that could affect free, fair and credible election process. “We all want to have free, fair and acceptable elections in 2023 and we need to work toward…
By Bernice Eke Horrible insecurity happening in the camp of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militia group, Eastern Security Network (ESN), where human bodies were roasted and used to make soup in Udah, Orsu local government in Imo State have been discovered by joint operatives of the various Nigerian security outfits comprising the military, police and Department of State Security (DSS). During the raid, one of the rescued kidnap victims narrated how she and four other ladies were kidnapped and locked up in a room where they were brutally tortured. She said the commander of the…