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The Kwara State Government  has announced the disbursement of N31 million cash compensation to 194 victims of a fuel tanker accident in Jebba in Moro Local Government Area of the state. This was disclosed by The Chairman of the Jebba Fire Disaster Relief Committee and Deputy House Leader, Kwara State House of Assembly, John Bello, made this known at the disbursement in Jebba on Thursday. In which he said; “We are going to pay 194 victims within three working days. His Excellency approved the sum of over N31m, and depending on the extent of the damage incurred, each victim will get between N30,000 and N1m. For some that their houses were burnt, we will give each of them between N800,000 and N1m, while the family of each of the deceased victims will receive the sum of N300,000.” Giv...

The presidency has denied reports stating that the nation’s seat of power, the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, went up in flames Saturday night. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, made note of this on behalf of the federal government, lamenting that there was no fire within the perimeter walls of the State House as speculated by the reports. “People in the country and even abroad have been expressing concerns over reports of a fire incident in Aso Rock Villa, the seat of the Nigerian government. “I would like to clarify that there was no fire inside the Presidential Villa. “In the evening of Saturday, March 6, a fire broke out burning shrubs between the outer wire fence and walls surrounding the Villa, precisely in the area betwee...

Around midnight on Sunday, Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum paid a suprise visit to Mohammed Goni College of Islamic Legal Studies in Maiduguri, where internally displaced persons from Abadam local government area of northern Borno were being camped. On arrival he ordered the sealing of the entrance and instigated a headcount to identify actual IDPs, so as to put a stop to rampant cases of dubious residents pretending to be displaced, who spend day times at IDP camps to share food meant for IDPs, and towards the night, they return to their various homes to sleep, with some of them benefiting from other means through which the state distributes food to vulnerable non IDPs in communities. His mission, ended past 1am, discovered that out of 1,000 households in the records ...

Gwamnatin Jihar Benuwe ta gargadi shugaban kungiyar Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu da kungiyar tsaro ta Gabas (ESN) kan cewa su fitar da Jihar daga yankin Biafra. Wannan ya biyo bayan barazanar da Kanu ya yi kwanan nan na aika mambobin ESN don kare 'yan kabilar Ibo da ke zaune a Benuwe. Kanu ya bayyana kananan hukumomin Ado da Oju a matsayin wuraren da suke bukatar jami'an tsaro ESN. A martanin Shugaban karamar hukumar Ado, James Oche, ya fadawa manema labarai a ranar Asabar cewa, yankin jihar ba zai taba zama karkashin Biafra ba. A karshe ya kara da cewa Gwamnatin Jihar tana gargadi Nnamdi Kanu da hukumar tsaro ta ESN da su dai na alakanta yankunan Jihar da Biafra.

Rikicin na batun barkewa a jihar Kwara, yayin da taron Baptist da Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, suka fada wa gwamnatin jihar cewa za su bijire wa sanya hijabi a makarantunsu ta dukkan hanyoyin da suka dace kuma sun nemi a dawo hanzarta dawo masu da makarantunsu. Dukkanin kungiyoyin kiristocin, a taron manema labarai daban-daban a Ilorin, babban birnin jihar, sun ce ba a tuntube su ba kafin a yanke shawarar. Muna so mu gargadi gwamnati cewa matakin da take son dauka ta hanyar amincewa da amfani da hijabi ga dukkan makarantun gwamnati da makarantun da ke ba da tallafi a cikin jihar zai haifar da yawan martani, wanda ba wanda zai iya yin hasashensa. Shugaba Majalisar Baptist na Kwara, Rev Dada, yace wannan matakin gwamnatin jihar ya nuna cewa Musulmai sun fi hakki a kan K...

Gwamna Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya na jihar Gombe ya rantsar da babban dan marigayi Mai Tangale a matsayin kwamishina. Christopher Abdu Maisheru, dan marigayi sarkin, an rantsar dashi tare da Idris Abdullahi Kwami da Abubakar Aminu Musa, bayan tantancewa da tabbatarwa da su da majalisar dokokin jihar Gombe tayi. An tura Maisheru zuwa Ma’aikatar Ayyuka na Musamman; Idris Kwami ya kasance ma’aikatar gidaje da ci gaban birane, yayin da Musa aka tura shi ma’aikatar ci gaban matasa. Gwamnan ya riga ya kori tsoffin kwamishinonin da suka hada na lafiya, Dr Ahmed Gana, Alhassan Kwami (Bayanai da Al'adu) da Mela Nunghe (Ayyuka na Musamman). A nasa jawabin, Gwamna Yahaya ya ce sabbin nade-naden sun dogara ne da tarihin aiki, sadaukar da kai ga aiki da kuma kyakkyawar gudummawa don ci gaban...

Tokyo 2020 organising committee Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Toshiro Muto, has lamented that the postponed Olympics would never be pushed back again or cancelled. He made this announcement in spite of COVID-19 state of emergency covering the Tokyo metropolitan area has been extended by two weeks. Muto told Japan’s Kyodo news agency: “There are people who say the games should be postponed, but from my view, pushing them back is impossible. “Holding them in July is the latest option.”  

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has cautioned the newly appointed service chiefs of the nation on friday that that they only a few weeks to secure the country. He gave the charge shortly after decorating the new service chiefs with their new ranks at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President said, “During our four-hour security meeting, I have taken the responsibility as the Commander-in-Chief for you to go out into the field and secure the country. “I have accepted responsibility for your action on the field. It is up to you to identify your competent officers irrespective of seniority and paper qualification and deploy them to make sure that we secure this country. “You have got a few weeks to do that because, by the rainy season, we expect people to...

Dr Ejike Oji, Chairman Technical Management Committee, Association for the Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP), has noted that the recently received almost four million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria will guarantee national immunity. In his interview with NAN he said; “According to National Primary Health Care Agency (NPHCA), over two million persons have registered for the vaccine; therefore people are willing to get immunity against the virus. “If the health workers who are front liners in the fight against COVID-19 get immunised, certainly infections and deaths will reduce,” he said. NAN reports that 3,924 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Abuja on Monday, the third and largest delivery so far to an African country by the global COVAX initiative. The COVAX program...

AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq the current Kwara state governor has appointed seven Special Advisers. They include Brigadier General Saliu Tunde Bello (rtd)-security; Prof Adekunle Dunmade–Health; Ahmed Yinka Aluko – Special Duties; and Attahiru Ibrahim— Sports and Youths. The former special adviser Political (SAPOL) Saadu Salau is now special adviser strategy while the former Special Adviser Strategy Abdullateef Alakawa is named the new SAPOL. The governor also appointed Mr. Bashir Adigun as special adviser political communications.