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Maj.-Gen. Obinna Ajunwa, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division Nigerian Army, has urged the media to work with the Nigerian Armed Forces and security agencies to ensure a free and fair election. Ajunwa made the announcement on Thursday during a press conference with Defense Correspondents on Old Queens Road in Ikoyi, Lagos. The general elections are scheduled for February 25 and March 11, respectively. According to the GOC, there is no better security than preventing violent incidents before they occur, which can only be accomplished by disseminating appropriate information at the right time. “So, I urge the media to work…

An official confirmed that 38 people died in Jigawa from suspected Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM). Dr Salisu Muazu, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, told reporters in Dutse on Thursday that the state had recorded 398 suspected cases from October 2022 to the present. According to Muazu, the disease was discovered in 56 political wards spread across seven local government areas in the state that borders Niger Republic. According to him, the outbreak began in the neighboring Niger Republic and spread to border communities in the state via transborder activities. The permanent secretary listed the affected areas including Babura, Maigatari, Suletankarkar, Birniwa,…

CcOn March 21, the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) will start drilling the first oil well in Obi/Keana Nasarawa State. The disclosure was made by Malam Mele Kyari, Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd., during a courtesy visit to Gov. Abdullahi Sule on Thursday in Lafia. According to Kyari, the company began exploration activities in the state in 2010 and has technically discovered a petroleum environment. “We have seen a great potential for finding hydrocarbon in Nasarawa State and to confirm this, we are going to start drilling on March 21. “We are very optimistic that it…

Kaduna Governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has claimed that Federal Government agents were plotting to use the cash swap policy (naira scarcity) and fuel scarcity to create a crisis that would lead to a military takeover. He claimed that the Federal Government agents behind the naira redesign policy and fuel scarcity were people who lost in the APC presidential and governorship primaries, accusing them of causing the crisis on purpose in order to derail the 2023 elections. He claimed they were planning to install an interim government led by a retired general, paving the way for a military takeover. State Broadcast…

Nigerians from all walks of life joined Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, and the family today at St Jude Cathedral Church in Ebute Metta, Lagos, to celebrate the grace of God in the life of mama Olubisi Osinbajo, who turns 90 today. Funke Akindele’s mother passes away The church service was laced with singing and biblical ministrations in celebration of her life.

On Thursday, the National Examinations Council (NECO) stated that the November/December 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination results were made public. The statement was made in Minna, Niger state, by Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, the Registrar of NECO. A total of 59,124 individuals registered for the exam, including 31,316 male candidates (representing 52.96%) and 27,808 female candidates (representing 47.03%), according to the NECO chairman. Wushishi added that the number of candidates that sat for the English Language is 58,012 out of which 44,162, representing 76.13 percent got Credit and above, while the number of candidates that sat for Mathematics is 57,700,…

Tiwa Savage, an Afrobeats singer, will star as the heroine in a brand-new film, marking her acting debut. The movie titled “Water and Garri” would mark the debut of the singing sensation also as a director. Coincidentally, Tiwa’s second EP, which has five songs and was released on August 20, 2021, has the same name. The Number 1 African Bad Gyal plays the part of a fashion designer with a promising career in the United States who returned to her native continent of Africa to deal with the guilt she left behind in the film, which is set in the…

Raquel Welch, an American actress who is often credited with paving the way for modern-day action heroines in Hollywood films, has died at the age of 82. According to her manager, the actress died peacefully on Wednesday morning after a brief illness. In the 1960s, Welch became an international sex symbol, best known for her role as a bikini-clad cavewoman in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C. She also won a Golden Globe for her performance in The Three Musketeers in 1974. Born Jo-Raquel Tejada in 1940, Welch grew up in California, where she won teen beauty pageants and…

On Thursday, hours after his national broadcast on the cash crisis swap, President Muhammadu Buhari came under fire. Lawyers and public commentators chastised the President for instructing the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to keep only the old N200 notes in circulation as legal tender until April 10, 2023. His order contradicts the Supreme Court’s February 8 ruling that the old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes should remain legal tender. The Court reaffirmed the ruling on Thursday, rescheduling the case for February 22. Buhari, in a broadcast on Thursday morning, following violence in some parts of the nation over the…

On Tuesday, a Lagos state High Court at Tafawa Balewa Square ordered convicted billionaire kidnap kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, to refund the sum of €233,000 he coercively collected from one of his kidnap victims, Chief Donatus Dunu. Furthermore, Justice Olukayode Ogunjobi ordered the convicted kidnapper to pay N50 million in general damages to the claimant. Dunu, a pharmacist, was kidnapped on February 14, 2017, and held hostage for ransom paid by his family before escaping captivity. Dunu, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Maydon Pharmaceutical Company, later filed a civil suit, praying the court to order…