Afro beat crooner, Mohbad, dies At 27 after a brief illness. Mohbad made his marks after some remarkable top hits in the Nigerian Pop scene. Details in the days to come… The post Just In: Mohbad Dies At 27. appeared first on this websites

Barely two weeks after Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri launched a mass tree planting campaign in Adamawa to check the effects of climatic change, the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi Arid Landscape (ACRESAL) project, in conjunction with the state government has taken its climatic change sensitisation campaign to stakeholders at the grassroots. The sensitisation programme, which took place, Monday in Yola, brought …

  The chairman of Asari Toru local government area of Rivers state, Hon. Onengiyeofori George, has inaugurated the Asalga Agriculture Development Advisory Committee with a commitment to facilitate the radical development of the agric sector in the area.  Hon. George took the initiative as the LGA joined the rest of the world in celebrating this year’s World Food Day with …

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Ahmed Galadima Aminu to serve as the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) for a term of four years in the first instance. The President directed Aminu to serve in acting capacity until the commencement of his fresh term years in office, beginning on December …

The Conference of Civil Society for Peace, Security and National Development (CCSPSND), a civil society organisation, has praised the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.- Gen Taoreed Lagbaja for his courage and determination to decimate insurgency, banditry and other criminal elements in the country since assumption of office.  The CSO in a press statement jointly signed by its conveners, Dr. Adamu …

The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Wednesday, commended the Kano State Government for the commitment demonstrated in arresting the diphtheria outbreak in some parts of the state. The WHO Country Representative in Nigeria, Walter Kasadi, said the state had displayed exemplary leadership in bringing epidemic to stand still in some parts of the state. Kasali described Kano state as a …

The officers of the Delta State Police Command have rescued no fewer than four kidnapped victims in Orerokpe, Okpe Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed this to newsmen in the Warri area of Delta State on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Edafe said the victims were rescued by a combined team of police operatives …

A Nigerian Air Force MI-171 Helicopter on a casualty evacuation mission crashed today at about 1.00pm near Chukuba Village in Niger state.A statement by NAF spokesperson Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet on Monday disclosed that the aircraft had departed Zungeru Primary School enroute Kaduna but was later discovered to have crashed near Chukuba Village in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger …

  The immediate-past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Dr. Boss Mustapha Gida, has commissioned laboratories in his alma mater, Government Secondary School (GSS) Hong, Adamawa state.  The Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Agriculture laboratories were built in 1967 and not renovated until 1992 when the school was managed by Denish missionaries as Government College Hong.  However, the dilapidated …

Gunmen have killed one person and abducted seven others, including an Emir’s son, during an attack on Bungudu, the headquarters of Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State. It was gathered that the incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, August 14, 2023. It was learnt that the gunmen killed one person and abducted seven other residents, including the …