The Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has passed into law a bill for a Law to Prohibit all Forms of Violence Against Persons and Provide Maximum Protection and Effective Remedies for Victims. The bill stipulates that perpetrators of rape are to get life imprisonment to serve as deterrent to others and for peace to…
… Describes Passage as a great loss to Toto LG, the state and the country at large. Following the sad news of his death, Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly Alh. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, has condoled with the people of Shafan Abakpa in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State and the state at…
Habu Galadima, the Director General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Kuru, Jos, is dead. Chukwuemeka Udaya, the Secretary and Director of Administration of the Institute announced the death in a statement on Sunday in Jos. According to Mr Udaya, the DG died Sunday morning after a brief illness at the…
By Elempe Dele, Edo. The people of Edo State has again described Barr Ken Immasuagbon as a grassroot politician with midas touch who is committed to changing lives of his people irrespective of religion and political affiliation. The group made the commendation on Friday when the legal icon cum grassroot politician visited Ibillo area…
Kogi youth Ambassador, Comrade Hassan Zakari has commended Hon. Gambo Manzo, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on political matters. Amazo is receiving commendation from all angles for sponsoring over 500 on the ongoing Survival Funds program across 11 Local Government Areas of Gombe State. Zakari in a statement address to news men…
FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has hailed the appointment of Professor Olayemi Akinwumi, as the new Vice Chancellor of the Federal University- Lokoja. The minister noted that the appointment was indeed testament to Akinwumi’s legendary scholarship in African History. She also commended the State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello, in appointing…
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration would sustain policies on economic inclusiveness and continue far-reaching reforms that would engender sustainable development so as to provide necessary amenities to lift residents out of poverty. The governor said this in commemoration of the International Human Solidarity Day celebrated every year by…
“Our Abductors Were Not Boko Haram, they order me to link their activities to Boko-Haram insurgents”. Kankara school boy who spoke while in captivity on Boko Haram, speaks exclusively to Arise TV, claiming his abductors were not Boko Haram. “We were also told to inform our government to henceforth desist from using jets through…
…Says he got misleading figures from sources Presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, has expressed sadness over the misrepresentation of figures while reacting to the abduction of more than 300 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, last weekend. Shehu, during an interview granted the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),…
Idris Ahmed, Lokoja. The National Cotton Association of Nigeria has set up a caretaker committee in Kogi state to manage its affairs following the disbandment of its executive. A statement from the national Secretariat Kaduna, signed by the national President of the association, Anibe Achimugu and Secretary General Hassan Buhari Tafida which was made…
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has said the state government will place a bounty for useful information that can lead to the re-arrest of escapees from two correctional facilities in the state. Obaseki disclosed this on Friday when he received members of the 11-man Committee on the re-arrest of the escapee prisoners led…
On their part to response to the recent spike in covid-19 infections across the Country, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has directed the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Liquid Oxygen (LOX) Plant at the 103 Strike Group (103 STG), Yola to scale up the production of LOX for distribution…
The Ehtu of Elaite Community HRH Ahmed Akwu have congratulated the Executive Chairman of Ajaokuta LGA, Hon Mustapha Akaba, his Vice Chairperson and the councilors on their successful election and subsequent inauguration. The royal father thanked Governor Yahaya Bello for building bridges of unity and development in Kogi state and promised to continue to…
Following his electoral victory at the just concluded councils poll in Kogi State, the Executive Chairman of Okene Local Government, Engr. Abdulrazaq Muhammad paid royal homage to the paramount ruler of Ebiraland and Acting President, Kogi State Council of Chiefs, HRM, Alhaji Dr Ado Ibrahim (CON) to seek royal blessings before formally assuming office…
Kogi State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Comrade Thomus Ayodele NUT has felicitated with the New Democraticaly elected council Chairmen in kogi State on their well deserved electoral victory at the polls and subsequent inauguration by the executive Governor of the State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. The State Labour leader while felicitating with the…
As President Muhammadu Buhari clocks 78 years today, Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, has felicitated with the president and Nigerians on the birth day of the country’s number one citizen saying that Nigeria is a great nation. A statement by Press Secretary to the Speaker, Jibrin…
As part of measures to resolve the lingering chieftaincy selection in Wako community of Kwali Area Council, the FCT Area Council Service Secretariat has given the stakeholders one week ultimatum to come up for the final selection. Recall that after the death of HRH. Alhji. Ibrahim Usman, Etsu Mi Wako, about seven months ago,…
Indications have emerged that the price of rice – both foreign and domestic may likely crash this yuletide after Nigerian Government announced reopening of four closed borders. Although restriction on rice is still in force, there is indications that rice already imported and locked at the borders may likely flood the market this Christmas…
In his usual effort to put smile on the faces of his people in the State, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Barr. Ken Immasuagbon, has donated hundred of bags of rice to the images at the IDP camp as part of his usual magnanimity to the vulnerable people ahead…
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has taken a proactive steps to give Gov. Abdullahi Sule legal backing in his quest to transform the state health sector to international best standard and meet up with the health challenges of the people of the state. To this end, the House has put machinery in motion…
