Abubakar Aliyu
8 Apr
Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to pay the university’s non-teaching staff of their four months withheld salaries.
12 Dec
The Katsina State Police Command, yesterday, said it successfully neutralised three suspected kidnappers during a shootout at the Kankara-Dutsinma federal highway.
29 Nov
The Katsina State police command, yesterday, confirmed that its operatives successfully neutralised three bandit kingpins in Kwarare area, Jibia local council of the state.
29 Nov
Three suspected terrorists lost their lives during an exchange of gunfire with security operatives in Katsina State. Spokesperson for Katsina police command, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, stated, yesterday, that the incident occurred over the weekend...
12 Nov
Security operatives have neutralised a notorious terrorist, Nazifi Ibrahim, 22, during a shootout at Yankar village, in Faskari Council of Katsina State.
6 Nov
The police in Katsina have rescued a kidnap victim, who was shot on the leg by his abductors, Tukur Adamu, 40, at Masaku village, in Kankara Local Council of the state.
19 Jun 2023
The Nigerian Police Command in Katsina State has killed five suspected terrorists.
16 May 2023
Less than two weeks to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the failure of the much-hyped Nigeria-Germany electricity deal, expected to be implemented by Siemens, re-echoed yesterday, even as the national grid collapsed again, throwing the nation into darkness.
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A fire incident disrupted flights at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, on Thursday morning. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), in a statement on Thursday, said smoke was detected emanating from the E54 bridge at 05:29 hrs. FAAN's director of public affairs and consumer protection, Obiageli Orah, said the airport engineers immediately…
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The death toll from a migrant boat disaster off Djibouti this week has risen to 24, the UN's migration agency said, highlighting a sharp increase in the number of people returning from Yemen to the Horn of Africa nation this year.
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US far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit is filing for bankruptcy, its founder said Wednesday, as it battles a string of lawsuits alleging it promoted misinformation related to the 2020 election.
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Honduras is experiencing a femicide "emergency," a United Nations official warned Wednesday, with at least 66 women murdered so far this year according to activists.
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The widespread use of alcohol and e-cigarettes among adolescents is "alarming", according to a report released on Thursday by the World Health Organization's (WHO) European branch, which recommended measures to limit access.
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Despite the exodus of university teachers and attendant shortage of manpower in public universities nationwide, the non-retention policy of the Federal Government has caused over 5,032 first-class graduates to languish in the job market and far away from the tertiary institutions that erstwhile retained them.
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As the whereabouts of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, remain unknown a week after he was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and placed on a watch-list by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)
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Data sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) suggest the economy may be relapsing to cash hoarding again a year after the chronic currency scarcity even as the proportion of currency in circulation that is held outside the banking system has returned to the pre-naira redesign level.
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As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark the 2024 World Malaria Day, the progress in national malaria control is being threatened by the continued rising cost of anti-malaria drugs, which have gone beyond the reach of many Nigerians.
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African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, said that Africa's immense economic potential is being undermined by non-transparent resource-backed loans that complicate debt resolution and compromise countries' future growth.