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Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, on Saturday, vowed to take back over N5.4 billion workers’ pension contributions yet to be deposited by the last administration in the state. The governor stated this at the launch of the payment of N5 billion in gratuity to 4,000 pensioners in the state. He stressed that pension payments are not a privilege but …

Heat wave – Kano begins planting three million trees. The World Bank’s initiative on agro-climate resilience in semi-arid landscapes aims to plant three million trees within the next 365 days. The Kano State government has launched an initiative to plant three million trees to combat the heat waves occurring in the state.

The Labor Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, on Saturday demanded the release of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, #ENDSARS protesters and others still detained. In a chat with journalists in Onitsha, Anambra State, the LP candidate also decried the worsening insecurity in the state. The former governor of Anambra state challenged government …

Truck loses control, killing 14 worshipers in Kano. A tragedy occurred on Friday in Imawa town of Kura Local Government Area of ​​Kano State along the Zaria-Kano Highway as a moving truck lost control and killed no less than 14 worshippers. It was learned that the accident occurred along the highway when the truck hit the worshipers returning from Juma’at …

Several guests at a wedding party were feared killed on Saturday when a female suicide bomber detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Gwoza town, Borno State. Many others also suffered serious injuries at the wedding venue in Tashan Mararaba in Gwoza town. One of the survivors told reporters that the bomber stormed the venue carrying a baby on his …

Justice DE Adokeme of the Bayelsa State High Court, Yenagoa, has sentenced a 41-year-old man, Baridapsi Needam, to 14 years in prison for impregnating his daughter. The victim gave birth to a baby girl during the trial. Bayelsa State government charges rape convict. Prosecutor Pere Amanda Egbuson told the court that investigations revealed that the defendant began abusing her daughter …

Gunmen kill 2 policemen, wound 1 in Aba. Two policemen were shot dead and one was wounded after unknown gunmen attacked their checkpoint in Aba. This happened just a month ago, after some still unidentified gunmen attacked a military checkpoint at the Obikabia intersection, killing five soldiers and burning their patrol vans. The accident which occurred at Opobo Junction, along …

Controversial social media activist, Martins Vincent Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), went on a social media rampage, attacking Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo, her boyfriend Paulo Okoye and celebrity barmaid, Obi Cubana. Verydarkman had started the news shortly after the wedding ceremony of Afrobeats star, Davido and his long-time partner, Chioma on Tuesday when he took to social media to …

For the 2024 fiscal year, the Nigerian government has provided funding of N3,556 for the educational needs of every school child aged 5-17 years, based on data analysis by Ripples Metrics. The analysis is taken from the 2024 budget review of the Ministry of Education. In the 2024 budget approved by President Bola Tinubu, the Ministry of Education was allocated …

Rivers Governor Siminalayi Fubara said he was not fighting anyone. “I am, rather, defending the state from predators; I am protecting Rivers from those who feel they own the lives of others,” he said in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, when the Senate Committee on Privatization and Commercialization paid him a courtesy call. Fubara said the failed attempt to detonate an …