Category: City Beat
UN moves to create new country out of Nigeria, Cameroon
…The Nigerian communities in the proposed country By July 10 this year, Nigeria may lose 24 local councils, by way of ceding, to a new country to be known as...
Lovers in Ogun police net for faking own kidnap
The long arms of the law have caught up with a 17-year-old girl, Seun Adekunle, and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Basit Olasunkanm, for allegedly faking kidnap of...
Bello warns against fertilizer price increase
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has warned against the sale of fertlizer above government approved price. Governor Sani Bello gave the warning when he visited Savannah...
Aso Rock: Soyinka says Buhari not in charge
Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says he does not believe that President Muhammadu Buhari is in charge of the country. Speaking on Thursday during an interview...
Deep seaport investment only way to make Nigeria’s ports efficient NPA MD
The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, has said the focus of the agency going forward is to aggressively drive investment in...
Mayhem in Kogi as many feared killed in bank robbery
The relative peace that has reigned in Kogi after last years governorship election was punctured Thursday as an unspecified number of people were said to have...
Horror in Ibadan, 19-yr-old girl raped, killed in parents’ house
A 19-year-old female student, identified as Barakat Bello, has been raped and stabbed to death in Ibadan, Oyo State, by yet-to-be identified persons. The year one...
Budget slash for education, health in preferfnce for NASS insensitive – PDP
… Demands immediate 100% Increase The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the slashing of the 2020 budgetary allocations for basic health care from N44.4...
FCC: Senate confirms appointment of 37 nominees
…As Buhari seeks confirmation of REC, replaces dead nominee on Commission The Senate on a Tuesday confirmed the appointment of 37 nominees forwarded to the upper...
Bello calls for end to Almajiri system
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has advocated end to the current practice of the almajiri system of seeking Islamic knowledge in a country far away from the...
