Twenty people, including two professors, were killed in Kano yesterday by unknown gunmen during a church service being held inside an indoor sports hall and outside a lecture theatre on the old campus of Bayero University, Kano (BUK). The professors were Jerome Ayodele of the Chemistry Department and Andrew Leo of the Library Department. About [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday described the public face-off between the National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the real cause of the Boko Haram crisis as a national embarrassment. In a statement issued in Lagos by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said [...]
Ahead of Edo state July 14, governorship election, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday said his convoy’s ghastly auto accident on Saturday was a suicide mission targeted at him, even as he alleged the incident was masterminded by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governor survived a fatal accident [...]
Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) situated in Shika, Zaria, in Kaduna state, was at the weekend thrown into mourning as one of their specialist medical doctors, Dr. Andrew Audu Abutu, was brutally gunned down by unknown assailants in Zaria on his way home around 9:30 pm from work. He was killed barely five months [...]
The federal government has released N1.92 billion for procurement of immunisation vaccines that will last for the third quarter of this year. Executive Director and Chief Executive, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Ado Muhammad, announced in a statement to mark this year’s African Vaccination Week. He said that government had put in [...]
Nasarawa state government last week took possession of the ultra- modern state House of Assembly complex in the state forcefully from the contractor handling the construction of the building in Lafia, the state capital. But the Commissioner for Housing, Environment and Urban Development, Honourable Yusuf Musa Oma’aki, in a telephone interview with Blueprint denied the [...]
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has tasked Northern state governors to learn from President Goodluck Jonathan’s gesture of commissioning new Almajiri model schools. The organisation said in a statement in Kaduna, signed by Anthony N.Z. Sani yesterday. It commended the president for the gesture, to which it appealed to the governors to replicate. ACF said, [...]
Late last year, precisely on October 30, 2011, it was reported that a retired fire fighter with the Benue State Government was assassinated in Gboko in the state. KULAS TER reports on the level of investigation into the case. It is no longer news that a retired fire fighting officer, Mr. Thaddeus Luka Ayabam was [...]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been petitioned by a member of the Agriculture and Allied Employees’ Union of Nigeria (AAEUN), Comrade David Tyoyila Tsumba, over alleged criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of funds and unethical conduct against the national President of the union, Alhaji A. D. Bangudu. In a seven-paragraph petition from [...]
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has provided $82 million in the last six months in aid to humanitarian organisations in the Sahel region. A press release by Public Information Officer, CERF Secretariat, in New York, Raquel Wexler, said the aides were meant to scale-up assistance in addressing “rising hunger, malnutrition and conflict-related [...]
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