Authorities in China have banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country. The news follows a move by Britain’s communications regulator to strip the state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN) of its broadcast license in the U.K. last week. The CGTN was also found in breach of British broadcasting regulations last year, for…
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has said that he believes his counterpart in Kaduna state, Governor Nasir El-Rufai does not understand the issue of insecurity very well. Reacting to El-Rufai’s comment of North West Governors not winning the fight against insecurity in the region because they are fighting differently, Ganduje recalled speaking with El-Rufai and the governor of…
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has slammed Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, over his handling of the farmer-herder clashes. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the 2021 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bauchi State Council on Thursday, Feb 11 at the Command Guest House, Mohammed also faulted…
A 24-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a Filipina model who was found dead in River Severn in Worcester. Charles Byrne, 24, was charged with murder and attempted murder after the body of the woman, named locally as Christina Rowe, was found in Worcester, West Mercia police said on Thursday night. …
A young man identified as Muktar Akhtar, a resident of Kano, has been declared missing by his family. The man was said to have disappeared for almost five days without a trace. Tweets by his family and friends called on anyone with useful information about his whereabouts to contact them. “I never imagined it…
Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a 31-year-old prophet, Anietie Inyang from Ikot Ebak village, Essien Udim Local Government Area of the state, for allegedly sodomising a 12-year-old boy. Prophet Anietie Inyang was alleged to have engaged in anal sex with the victim, who lives with his grandmother at Ikot Ada Utor in Afaha Clan…
Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi has told Governors in the country to find other ways to address insecurity in their respective states rather than always going to the Presidency for solutions. Addressing reporters in Abuja on Monday February 8, Abdullahi said the Senate was disturbed that herdsmen/farmers’ crises, banditry and insurgency remain unabated. He…
Orduen Takema, the Senior Special Assistant to Benue State Governor on Revenue and Taxation, has died. Takema reportedly slumped and died on Monday night, February 8, few hours after he buried his late cousin, Hemen Nyikwagh at Tse Takema in Gboko. The deceased’s cousin, Smith Akôm Takema posted a photo they took at the burial…
Brig. General Mohammed M. Yerima has been appointed as the new Director of Army Public Relation. The Nation reported that Brig. Gen. Yerima will on Wednesday February 10, take over from Brig. General Sagir Musa who has been in the position in acting capacity since the exit of Brig. General Kukasheka Usmam. The new Nigerian…
A retired Assistant Comptroller-General of Immigration, Abdulahi Rakieu, and three other persons have been abducted in the Tungan Maje area of Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja on Saturday, February 6. The kidnappers were said to have raided the victims’ houses and whisked them away. This comes few days after a Punch…
