The federal government has launched new Standard Operating Procedures, SOPs, to guide the implementation of its Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration, DDR, programme, with a clear warning that repentant terrorists accused of serious crimes will still face prosecution. Speaking in Abuja on Monday at the national validation workshop on the SOPs for DDR, Adamu Laka, National […]

The money is to support their accommodation and resettlement. The post Nigerian governor pledges N1m to South Africa returnees appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

Stakeholders at the Breakfast Roundtable on Bayelsa Infrastructure Rebirth have called for sustained investment in infrastructure across Bayelsa State, stressing the need to institutionalise ongoing development efforts to ensure long-term growth beyond any administration. The stakeholders made the call in a communique issued at the end of the roundtable held in Yenagoa on Monday. In […]

The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has assured its members and supporters that the judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal in Abuja regarding the party’s state congresses does not affect its candidates or the outcome of its direct primary elections. The psrty gave the assurance on Monday, shortly after the Court of Appeal, in a […] The post Appeal Court Ruling Has No Effect On Our Party, ADC Assures Members appeared first on OsunDefender.

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has been praised online after Nigerian writer and filmmaker Onyeka Nwelue, shared how the literary icon quietly settled his outstanding hospital bill following a major knee surgery. In a heartfelt post on social media, Nwelue recounted telling Soyinka that his knee surgery had cost about ₦39 million, with about ₦10 million […]

A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Kano has remanded a 20-year-old woman, Safiya Hussaini, in a correctional facility over the alleged murder of her co-wife. Safiya, a resident of Loko village in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State, was arraigned on Monday before Chief Magistrate Court No. 2, presided over by Magistrate Auwal Yusuf Sulaiman, […]

The principal of Community High School, Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, Mrs Rachael Alamu, has revealed that the kidnappers who held her and dozens of pupils and teachers captive deliberately killed two teachers to force the government to meet their demands. Alamu disclosed this on Monday while speaking with journalists after she, alongside […]

“You can only imagine it. It is like relieving the whole experience again. It was not easy. We were in the forest, in the open, most of the time, under the sun and under the rain, with the... The post VIDEO: How we spent 56 days under the rain, sun in the forest — Rescued Oriire principal appeared first on Tribune Online.

The 60-year-old abducted headmaster of Nomadic Basic School, Igbojaye, in Itesiwaju Local Government Area of Oyo State, Mr. Mathew Kolawole Owoade, popularly known as Onaiye, has regained his freedom after spending 48 hours in captivity. The headmaster was released at about 6:00 p.m. on Monday. The kidnappers had initially demanded a ₦30 million ransom. However, […]

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has arraigned two children of an Abuja-based businessman, Adimike Godwin, alongside another suspect before the FCT High Court over the alleged murder of the businessman in Guzape, Abuja. The defendants, Adimike Odirachukwu Anthony, Adimike Chinyere Stephany and Comfort Ajibade, were on Monday arraigned before the FCT High Court […]

…How he assisted in paying my children’s fees — Gowon By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA — President Bola Tinubu on Monday led governors, former Heads of State, ministers and other dignitaries in honouring late former President Muhammadu Buhari on the first anniversary of his passing, declaring that Buhari “gave everything he had to this country” without […] The post Buhari gave his all to Nigeria — Tinubu appeared first on Vanguard News.

The principal of the school in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State has disclosed yhat none of the victims wsd sexually assaulted by their abductors. Recounting their ordeals in an interview with the journalists after their handing over to the state government by the Nigerian Army, she ddescribed the experience as traumatic and emotionally […]