The police in Katsina have arrested a 13-year-old boy suspected to be providing information to armed bandits. Police spokesman Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu disclosed this in Katsina. “On July 3, the command, in collaboration with members of the Katsina State Community Watch Corps (KSCWC) attached to Dansoda village, Dandume Local Government Area, succeeded in arresting the 13-year-old boy. “He resides in Sheik Abdullahi quarters of Dandume town. He was arrested in connection to a suspected case of aiding and abetting armed banditry. The suspect was arrested following intelligence tips on his nefarious activities. He specialises in providing information on potential targets to…
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The National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has closed down a bakery for using unfortified sugar and banned bromate in Sokoto. The NAFDAC coordinator in Sokoto, Garba Adamu, said on Friday that its officials detected the bakery during a special raid. “We discovered that the bakery was using saccharine, an unregistered foreign sugar, as a sweetener along with banned bromate in their productions. The items were seized for destruction, and the bakery is shut down until it complies with regulations and directives,” Mr Adamu said. Mr Adamu emphasised that only fortified registered sugar containing vitamin A with…
The Federal Government has launched the National Cleantech Innovation Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, an initiative aimed at fostering innovation and supporting startups and SMEs in the country. The announcement was made by the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, in a statement obtained from his official X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday. The launch event in Abuja was organised by the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme Nigeria, a UNIDO-led initiative sponsored by the Global Environment Facility. “We launched the National Cleantech Innovation Entrepreneurship Ecosystem to bridge the commercialisation gap faced by cleantech startups. Despite their potential to drive economic development…
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero on Thursday gave reasons why the Organised Labour accepted the proposal of N70,000 minimum wage from the President, Bola Tinubu. Ajaero, who spoke to State House reporters after the meeting with the President, said the unions agreed to the offer because of other incentives attached. He said another reason for accepting the offer is because “ the President promised a review every three years as against what obtained in the past.” President Bola Tinubu on Thursday approved the sum of N70,000 as national minimum wage, his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo…
The House of Representatives has resolved to cut members’ salaries by 50 per cent for six months to support President Bola Tinubu’s government in providing succour to Nigerians suffering untold hardships due to Mr Tinubu’s harsh economic policies. The resolution followed a motion of urgent public importance by Ibrahim Isiaka (APC-Ogun) during a plenary in Abuja on Thursday. In an amendment to the motion, the deputy speaker of the House Rep, Benjamin Kalu, pleaded with the lawmakers to cut their salaries by 50 per cent for six months. This he said, was to support the government in providing succour to…
At least 100 psychiatric doctors left the country to practise abroad in one year, Taiwo Obindo, the president of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria (APN), said on Thursday. Mr Obindo said this in Lagos while examining the brain drain rate in Nigeria’s psychiatric profession in 2023. He decried that the psychiatric profession was the worst hit by the trending brain drain syndrome ongoing in the Nigerian medical sector. He said brain drain was affecting the psychiatric profession more than other professions in terms of the psychiatric nurses, psychiatric doctors and all other caregivers and health workers in the field.…
The Abuja Division of the Appeal Court on Thursday dismissed an application filed suspended alleged drug dealer and disgraced cop Abba Kyari, requesting that the unlawful drug deal charge against him be dropped. A three-member panel of justices dismissed Mr Kayri’s appeal, marked CA/ABJ/CR/516/2023, for being unmeritorious. Justice Adebukola Banjoko who led the panel, held that there was no reason to tamper with the findings and conclusions reached on the issue by Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in the ruling he delivered on March 22, 2023. “In conclusion, this court finds no reason to disturb the findings…
During the 2024 policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Minister of Education Prof. Tahir Mamman declared that candidates under the age of 18 will no longer be admitted to tertiary institutions in the country, effective immediately. “JAMB is hereby notified that there is now a ban on underaged students, those under the age of 18 into our tertiary institutions from this 2024 admissions,” Mamman said. The minister, said the Federal Government was considering the adoption of 18 years as the entry age for admission into universities and other tertiary institutions of learning.
By: Joy Enamuna The House of Representatives Committee on Federal Character, Wednesday slammed the Director General (DG) of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dayo Mobereola for not showing respect to the committee following his failure to appear before the committee despite being duly invited. Instead, the NIMASA Boss had sent the Agency’s Director of Administration of Human Resources, Isichei Osamgbi to represent him before the Committee. Osamgbi, was however turned back with the committee issuing a summon to the DG to appear before it unfailingly by 30th of July 2024. The Chairman of the Committee, Idris Wase,…
A former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, Hon. Ebenezer Alabi, has resigned his membership from the opposition party. Alabi made this known in a letter dated 18th, July, 2024. Details later.