A number of armed assailants stormed the hotel following a suicide attack on the building, and then holed up inside, Hussein said, adding that all of them had been killed in the subsequent siege.
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More than 2,000 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims arrived in Madinah for the 2019 Hajj as at Friday, Alhaji Ahmed Maigari, the Madinah Coordinator for the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, has said.
The governor noted that fight against godfathers in the state was the path that his predecessor and current National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, taught him and others and there would be no going back on it.
Malam Abubakar Yakubu, Head of Disaster Management and Control, Nigerian Red Cross, Abuja, presented the items on behalf of the corporations to Internally Displaced Persons settlement on Friday at Malkohi, Yola South Local Government Area.
Osinbajo stated this when he paid a courtesy visit on the Asagba of Asaba, Prof. Chike Edozien, on Friday in Asaba.
The airline meant to fly them from Abuja to Port-Harcourt.
Alhaji AbdurRahman Balogun, the Chairman of the forum, made this known to newsmen on Friday during a protest held at the Bodija Housing Estate Mosque in Ibadan.
The men moved to the ranks of Deputy Controllers/Commandants and Deputy Comptrollers-General across its four Services.
Speaking on behalf of the association, the APRA President, Yomi Badejo-Okusanya, expressed their enthusiasm on this new development and how it aligns with one of APRA’s key intervention areas: Promoting Economic Integration in Africa.
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Friday apologised to special needs children in the state over the decrepit condition of their school and the lack of facilities there.
In a meeting with the governor, the monarchs, under the aegis of Concerned Traditional Rulers’ Forum, led by Dr. Cletus Ilomuanya, said the adoption of the TSA will go a long way in ensuring prudent management of funds in the state and enthrone probity in governance.
Governor Sanwo-Olu also ordered members of staff earlier disengaged by the management to forward their letters of appeal to the school’s Governing Council within seven days for a review of the process of their disengagement.
The new monarch, who emerged on Friday after voting by the kingmakers, is Ogunoye Ajibade Gbadegesin.
Fourteen out of the 15 kingmakers voted for Gbadegsein as the 32nd Olowo of Owo.
The SFU claimed that while investigating Semasa James, a son to the late king, accused of defrauding his 26 siblings of their N500 million inheritance, they uncovered suspicious signatures purportedly signed by the dead king in documents of CAJ Industrial Enterprises, the deceased’s company.
The 40th career meeting between the golden duo with 38 Grand Slam titles between them swung this way and that before Federer seized control.
Abubakar, in a statement he personally signed, called for security agents to speedily bring the killers to book.
The deceased was reportedly shot on Friday along Kajola-Ore Road in Ondo State by those the police described as armed robbers.
The Nigeria Labour Congress has called on the Federal Government to sign up to the Paris Agreement to support climate resilience jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions before 2050.
The fast-growing light welterweight fighter and product of GOtv Boxing Next-gen Search, is billed to face Akeem “Sugar Boy” Olaiwola in a national challenge bout at GOtv Boxing Night 19 on 21 July at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos.
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Friday in Asaba, Delta State, paid a courtesy visit to the Asagba of Asaba, Prof. Chike Edozien, as part of his one-day working visit to the state.