Mrs. Eunice Elisha was murdered in Kubwa area of Abuja, FCT, in the early hours of the day. Her neck was slashed and she was also stabbed in the stomach. About a month ago in Kano, Mrs. Bridget Agbaheme, a 74 year old Christian was murdered at Wambai market due to an altercation with a Muslim man who came to the front of her shop to perform ablution. Her offence was that she objected to the Islamic washing rite in front of her shop
Author: NAN
In a statement on Tuesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose cited the unprovoked attacks on commercial motorcyclists and passers-by by APC members when they held a rally in the town last Thursday
The statement reads in part: “The attention of Engr. David Umahi, the governor of Ebonyi State has been drawn to the existence of accounts on Facebook, Twitter, etc operated by unscrupulous individuals asking unsuspecting people to apply for jobs and contracts on the social media by paying for forms
The Dean of the Microsoft 4Afrika Academy, Lutz Ziob, explained in a statement: “Most large corporations are looking at youth skills development in one form or another, because it’s important to their business
Udoma made this known when the Regional Director of the World Health Organisation, Dr. Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, visited him in his office.
He said: “This administration is committed to providing adequate fund for the health sector. We hope to up scale the budget for health next year compared to what is obtained in this year’s budget
The Chairman of the Ministerial Task Team on the recovery of the N9 billion owed the AEPB, Baba Shehu Lawan, made this disclosure after executing the Court Order on Tuesday
He said if value could be added to indigenous technology, it would not only create wealth for Nigerians and earn huge foreign exchange, but would give a direction to Nigeria’s technological development
In a motion he filed to challenge the alleged abuse of court process by the government, Dasuki said it was wrong in law and even against natural justice for the government to arraign him before two different high courts of the Federal Capital Territory on the same sections of the law and on the same alleged arms fund
Following the threat by the workers to embark on strike, the government had approached the court seeking an injunction, which was granted.
The court injunction had ruled that the strike action planned by civil and public servants in the State had become null and void and indeed of no effect
Nick Dazang, the Independent National Electoral Commission Deputy Director for Voter Education and Publicity, disclosed this in an interview with NAN on Tuesday in Abuja
The anti-graft czar urged legal practitioners to always play by the rule and avoid being used by corrupt elements to pervert justice, adding: “What is important is the interest of the nation, which should be placed above any other interest.”
A sister court, presided by Justice Saliu Saidu, had on June 14 granted the interim order against NICON Investment, Global Fleet Oil and Gas and Ibrahim, over an alleged N50 billion indebtedness
The Frenchman – Arsenal’s all-time top scorer – had been working with the side’s youth players as part of his UEFA A Licence course and was offered the chance to coach the under-18s by manager Arsene Wenger
An email to the Publisher of PRNigeria, Yushau Shuaib, from the Member Services Manager of IPRA, Janice Hills, stated: “I am delighted to inform you that your entry on ‘Managing Security Information on War on Terror in Nigeria’ in the Crisis Management Category is a winner in the 2016 IPRA GWA Awards… Please make a note in the diary for Saturday 5 November 2016 for the IPRA GWA Gala Awards ceremony in Doha, Qatar
The women 400m and the women 4x400m team is made up of George Patience Okon, Bamgbose Margaret, Omotoso Omolara Grace, George Regina, Ajayi Yinka, Ossai Rita Vivian, Mayungbe Blessing and Sogbesan Ekundayo
In a walk to sensitise the people around its environs, Ngonadi said the initiative was to walk against the spread of cervical cancer in the country, adding that Nigeria is the 10th in cervical cancer death worldwide where about 40,000 Nigerian women are at risk of getting infected by the disease
According to the PUNCH, the football house picked the Frenchman from a three-man shortlist that included Salisu Yusuf and Tom Saintfiet.
It is also understood that the NFF will consider Yusuf as an assistant coach
Schweinsteiger may well have played his last game for his country, with reports he is considering immediate retirement from the international game, but he did not touch on that in an open letter posted on the German Football Association’s Facebook page last week
In a message to the management of Tuns Farms Limited, the Managing Director of Livestock Feeds Plc, Modupe Asanmo, referred to NEGPRO as a “laudable programme which we believe will transform the poultry industry in Nigeria and will indeed enable the industry to fully achieve its potential as a major source of revenue and employment generation for the country”
The recruitment exercise, according to Komla, is part of the company’s objective of contributing to Ghana’s economic growth through job creation and honouring tax obligations, adding: “These are components of the Company’s mission in Ghana which is to stimulate its economy