June 2021

U.S. strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least seven Iran-backed militiamen, a Britain-based monitoring group said on Monday. The U.S. Pentagon said on Sunday that President Joe Biden had ordered the airstrikes…

No fewer than 18 All Progressives Congress, APC, governors are expected to receive Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State on Tuesday. The Chairman, Publicity Sub-Committee of the organising ceremony and Zamfara Commissioner for…

Governor of Gombe State, Inuwa Yahaya, has expressed excitement at the award of Best State for Ease of Doing Business given to the state. Gombe State won the Best MSMEs State One-Stop Shop at the fourth National Micro Small and Medium…

The Presidency has frowned at threats by a group, Niger Delta Avengers, to bomb nation’s oil installations unless their demands including restructuring of the federation were met by the Federal Government within 90 days. The Special…

The National President, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, Sanusi Fari, says that it's neither planning to go on strike nor planning to shut fuel stations nationwide. He disclosed this in a statement issued and…

Chief Medical Director of the Yola Specialist Hospital, Dauda Wadinga, in Adamawa has confirmed that a store was razed in a fire outbreak at the facility. Wadinga, who confirmed the incident on Sunday in Yola, said the cause of the fire…

The Kaduna State Government says troops of ‘Operation Safe Haven’, OPSH, have foiled an attack on Gidan Zaki town in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan,…

The Police Command in Edo State says it has arrested two hunters who allegedly shot and injured six persons at a funeral at Ama Community, Esan South-East Local Government Area. This was disclosed in a statement by the Police Public…

A 45-year-old man simply identified as Christopher, on Saturday night beat his 39 year-old wife to death over N2, 000. Our correspondent reports that the incident happened at No.1, Agbontaen Street, beside Ebvareke Secondary School, off…

The anti-terror and constitutional affairs bench of the Ethiopian Federal High Court on Monday sentenced the killer of the east African country’s former army chief to life imprisonment. Ethiopia’s late army chief, Seare Mekonen, was…