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The police on Friday broke its silence on the controversy surrounding the tenure of Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun. Egbetokun’s retention in the post has attracted interest in the country after he reached the mandatory retirement age of 60 on Wednesday. The Police Act requires officers to retire upon reaching the age of 60 or achieving 35 years of service. …

At least 20 people have died in the devastating floods that hit Bade local government area of ​​Yobe State since August. The Chairman of Bade LGA, Alhaji Babagana Ibrahim, disclosed this to journalists on Friday. He said most of the victims were trapped under the rubble of collapsed mud houses. Ibrahim said the floods destroyed more than 10,000 homes and …

The naira recovered against the US dollar on the official exchange on Friday. Data from the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM) showed the local currency strengthened by N46 to trade at N1,593/$1, down from N1,639/$ recorded at the official window the previous day. The highest and lowest intraday prices recorded on the day were N1,665/$1 and N1,580/$1 respectively, indicating …

Nigeria’s equity market closed the week with a gain of N128 billion for investors on Friday. This follows the increase in the prices of shares such as NSL TECH, OANDO, and UACN among others on the trading floor. After five hours of trading in the capital market, equity capitalization jumped to N55.3 trillion from N55.2 trillion recorded by the bourse …

President Bola Tinubu has expressed his readiness to emulate Chinese infrastructure in Nigeria. The President, according to a statement issued on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, stated this during a meeting with the Nigerian Diaspora Organisation in China (NIDO China) and the Nigerian community in Beijing. He stressed the need for innovative teaching methods …

Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh has expressed immense pride and joy as Onyinyechi Mark won Nigeria’s first GOLD medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, setting a stunning new world record in the process. Mark competed in the women’s Para-Powerlifting category up to 61 kg, breaking the previous world record by lifting an astonishing 147 kg, before further …

At least 467 Nigerians lost their lives in four states – Kaduna, Benue, Katsina and Plateau – between July and August 2024, according to a disturbing report by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The commission also revealed that more than 1,200 #EndBadGovernance protesters have been arrested and detained by security agencies across the country. Presenting the human rights situation …

The Kaduna State Government has partnered with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the Reaching Out-of-School Children (ROOSC) project, which aims to provide quality education to over 200,000 out-of-school children across the state. At a signing ceremony held at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House in Kaduna on Friday, Deputy Governor Dr. Hadiza Balarabe announced the initiative. She stressed that the …

The Sokoto State Chief Justice Court on Friday remanded Shafi’u Umar-Tureta in custody for allegedly spreading falsehoods against Sokoto State Governor Ahmad Aliyu and his wife through a social media platform. Tureta was the special assistant to former governor Aminu Tambuwal and was accused of spreading defamatory falsehoods and printing notoriously defamatory material. The case was first mentioned on August …

The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Friday, dismissed an appeal filed by two governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, seeking the disqualification of the party’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo, from the forthcoming governorship election slated for September 21. The appellants, Arthur Esene and Anselm Ojezua, have appealed to the court of appeal against the judgment …