Jubilation As FG Approves Increase In Corps Members Feeding Allowance, Others The Kaduna State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Hassan Taura, said that the Federal Government has approved an upward review of feeding allowance for corps members. The coordinator made this known while fielding questions from journalists on Tuesday, shortly after the opening/swearing-in ceremony for the 2023 Batch B stream 2 orientation course in Kaduna. Mr Taura, who did not specify the amount reviewed, said: “first, the federal government in its wisdom has reviewed the feeding allowance of the corps members.” The coordinator who promised to prioritize…
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What Nigerians Will Experience Under President Tinubu – Kumuyi The General Overseer of Deeper Life Church, Pastor Williams Kumuyi has charged Nigerians to be hopeful that God will rebuild the country through President Bola Tinubu. Kumuyi said God has not forsaken the country and Nigerians will witness a new country through the President. While speaking ahead of his church’s monthly Global Crusade scheduled for Osogbo on Thursday, he expressed optimism about the new administration. Kumuyi said Tinubu’s new cabinet was carefully chosen, made of people with antecedents, advising Nigerians to cooperate with the new administration God will make the country…
Tension As Nigerian Woman Kills Co-wife’s Newborn Baby The Police Command in Bauchi State has arrested a 24-year-old woman, Furera Abubakar, over alleged murder of her four-day-old stepchild at Bantu village in Ningi Local Government Area of the state. This was contained in a statement by the Spokesman of the Command, SP Ahmed Wakil, on Tuesday in Bauchi. He said that operatives of the Command arrested the suspect over alleged culpable homicide. “The incident was reported to the Ningi Divisional Police headquarters on the 19th of August, 2023 which revealed that the four-day-old baby was born on the 15th of…
People Selling Corn, Others In Abuja Are Responsible For Insecurity, Criminalities In FCT — Wike, Reveals Next Action The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has announced a ban on street trading in Abuja, saying that people who sell corn and engage in other street hawking are responsible for insecurity and criminalities in the nation’s capital city. Wike, the immediate past governor of Rivers State, made the announcement on Tuesday while reading the management staff of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) the riot act. He urged them to be committed to…
Man Kills Son, Burns His Body In Akwa Ibom The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has arrested a man who allegedly killed his own son and burnt his corpse in Ebe Ikpe, a village in Essien Udim Local Government Area of the state. According to the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko Macdon, who spoke with journalists on Tuesday, the incident was reported at the Essien Udim Divisional Police Headquarters by the village head of the community, Chief Akpan Aniekan, and the village council chairman, Sylvester Akpan. SP Macdon told journalists: “They reported that one Innocent Uko of…
Pastor Arrested, Church Sealed Over Electrocution Of 5 People Rivers Government has arrested an assistant pastor and sealed a church (names withheld) over electrocution of five people during the installation of a giant billboard at Obiri-Ikwerre flyover, Port Harcourt, in the state capital on Monday. The billboard was being erected for the church under a high tension wire tension wire near Obiri Ikwerre flyover, along East West road when it fell on on electric pole leading to instant death of five of the workers involved in the construction. Four others involved in the erection of the billboard also sustained different…
BREAKING: Tinubu Sacks NIMC CEO, Makes Fresh Appointments President Bola Tinubu has directed the commencement of 90-day pre-retirement leave for the Director-General/CEO of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Abubakar Aziz. This is to take effect from August 24, 2023, leading to his eventual retirement from service on November 24, 2023, Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity said in a statement on Tuesday. He said, “The President approves the appointment of Engr. Bisoye Coker-Odusote to serve as the Acting Director-General/CEO of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) for a 90-day period, with effect…
PHOTO: Nigerian Man Stabs His Wife To Death Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Nigerian Man Stabs His Wife To Death A Nigerian man, Conrad Irabor Iyayi has been jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years for murdering his wife in their kitchen as their son slept upstairs. Iyayi stabbed Kathryn Iyayi, known as Katy Harris, seven times in the chest at their home in Oak Crescent, Littleover, Derby, UK in February 2022, The News reports. Harris, a 52-year-old art teacher for SEND children and mother-of-three, suffered “a violent death” at the hands of Iyayi, who had taken…
Real Reason I Accepted Tinubu’s Ministerial Appointment — Wike Finally Opens Up The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that he sought the approval of the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, before accepting to serve in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet. Naija News House reports that Mr Wike, who is a chieftain of the opposition party, was among the 45 ministers inaugurated by Mr Tinubu on Monday. During the build-up to the 2023 presidential election, the former Rivers governor had led G-5 governors that worked against the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar. For…
Nigerian Govt Bans Politicans From Bringing Personal Assistants From Outside The Lagos State Government has banned commissioners and other political appointees from appointing personal assistants from outside the civil service. The Head of Service (HOS), Hakeem Muri-Okunola disclosed this in a circular, saying that all political appointees would not be allowed to employ personal assistants from outside the civil service. According to the HOS, “It is hereby notified for general information that appointments of Personal Assistants from outside the State Public Service by the Honourable Commissioners and Special Advisers, (Cabinet & Non Cabinet Rank) in the discharge of their day…