President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) Fouzi Lekjaa detailed Morocco’s conditions for its participation in the 2023 African Nations Championship (CHAN) set to be held in Algeria. According to Morocco World News, Lekjaa demanded that the Atlas Lions home-based team team be able to travel on a direct flight on Morocco’s flag carrier Royal Air Maroc from the Read More
The Kaduna State Traffic Enforcement Authority (KASTLEA) will commence the release of motorcycles that were impounded in batches starting from Tuesday. A statement issued by the acting Corps Marshall and Chief Executive Officer of Kastlea, Carla Abdulmalik, also said the release will be effected after five steps have been completed. He further said various categories of fines will be paid Read More
Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum and Ethiopia’s Amane Beriso became the third-fastest men’s and women’s marathon runners in history with victory in Valencia. Kiptum, 23, completed his debut race in two hours one minute 53 seconds, while Beriso, 31, triumphed in 2:14:58. Her time pushed Briton Paula Radcliffe’s 2003 London time of 2:15:25 – a world record for 16 years – to Read More
The national president of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Chris Isiguzo, has asked media practitioners to observe their professional code of ethics in the discharge of their social responsibility by complying with the ethics of the profession. He also called on media owners in Nigeria to improve on the remunerations and hazard allowances and provide adequate working tools for journalists for the Read More
The two non-teaching staff unions of Nigerian Universities have given federal government a two-week ultimatum to reverse the sharing formula of the just approved N22.127 billion for payment of earned allowances for the university staff. Blueprint can authoritatively report that out of the approved amount, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ( ASUU) is to take a lion share of 75 Read More
The District Head of Adogon Malam, Alhaji Saidu Abubakar, and his younger brother, Salihi, have been reportedly killed in what appeared like reprisal attack in Mashegu local government of Niger state. Bleuprint learnt that the attack occured Monday morning at about 10am after the killing of 18 people in Maza-Kuka village.It was further learnt that some youths including vigilantes from Maza-Kuka village Read More
A group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on the aiges of APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign (APC-LAC) has commended the firm responses of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administratiom to the Covid-19 pandemic. The group, which is a voluntary think-tank group of the governing party, particularly lauded President Buhari’s setting up of an Economic Sustainability Committee chaired by the Vice Read More
The Kogi state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello, has procured Nigeria’s first hyperbaric oxygen treatment chamber to strengthen the state’s healthcare system and provide quality healthcare Services. The newly acquired equipment is hoping to strengthen the critical institutions and systems required to effectively provide affordable and quality healthcare service to the people. The governor, in a statement, signed by the Read More
Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Salihu Moh Lukman, has called urgent radical reforms of the current security structure in Nigeria. Lukman believe the government can also do more especially in relation to getting the Nation’s security agencies to be more accountable. In a release Friday in Abuja titled Read More
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has issued a memo listing conditions that customs brokers must comply with before subletting their licences to others. Customs brokers, also known in Nigeria as licensed customs agents, must statutorily be licensed by the NCS before they can be involved in the clearance of goods at airport, seaport and land borders. However, very few clearing Read More
For Nigeria’s democracy to develop and the welfare of Nigerians improved, a call has been made for an improved relationship between the Nigerian government and the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). In a statement released to newsmen Monday in Abuja, Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) and a chieftain of the governing party, Salihu Moh. Lukman, said part of Read More
The Coalition of Gender Based Violence (GBV) Responders has condemned the spate of propaganda embarked on by the Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja in an alleged attempt to evade being found complicit in the rape of 14 year old Keren-Happuch Akpagher, who died as a result of condom left inside her, which infected her with sepis, leading to her death. Speaking Read More
The Nigerian Army on Saturday said Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists now resort to video propaganda in order to seek relevance and replenish their depleting fighting force as a result of the sustained military bombardments from both land and air components of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK). A statement by Director Army Public Relations Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, said troops sustained Read More
The Minister of Defence Maj.-Gen. Bashir Salihi Magashi (retd) has urged Muslims to render sacrifice for national security and unity in their prayers for this year’s festival of sacrifice, known as Eid’il Adha. A statement issued Tuesday by Special Assistant to the Minister on Media Mohammad Abdulkadri, General Magashi stated this in a message to felicitate with the Muslim Ummah Read More
Ogun State-based football club, Easy Well FC was on Saturday involved in a fatal Accident with the driver of the ill-fated bus reported dead while players were critically injured. The club, according to report, were on their way to Ibadan for a scouting programme The accident occurred at Guru Bridge, Ibadan, Oyo State with the driver confirmed dead and most Read More
The Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the authourisation of N2.343 trillions! ($6.183 billion USD) as External Borrowing in the 2021 Appropriation Act. This was just as it directed the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, the Director General of the Debt Management Office, Patience Oniha, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Read More
Nigeria and The Gambia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on military cooperation at the Ministry of Defence, Abuja. A statement issued Friday in Abuja by the special assistant to the minister of defence on media and publicity, Mohammad Abdulkadri, indicated that the MoU “will boost intelligence-sharing, capacity-building, tactical and technical synergies between the two countries.” It added that Read More
The Federal Capital Terriory (FCT) Grade 1, Area Court at Karu satellite townhas remanded a driver of Guinness-Owned truck, Wilson Aniete at the Suleja correctional centre over attempted murder of Vehicles Inspection Officer (VIO). The remand order was issued by the Presiding Judge of the court, Inuwa Maiwada, at the weekend. It will be recall that the driver of the Read More
The National Committee of the Heads of Colleges of Agriculture and Related Disciplines (NACHCARD) has called for establishment of entrepreneurship centres and support from the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with international donor agencies be extended to State Colleges of Agriculture across the country. NACHCARD in a communique issued Wednesday in Abuja at the end of its 59th regular meeting Read More
The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has condemned the renewed communal clashes between the people of Enyibichiri, Izzi in Abakaliki Local Government Area and Echialike, Ikwo, Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi state over a lingered land dispute, demanding an end to the hostility. The Ebonyi indigenes also condemned in totality the abduction of some Izzi Read More
Following insisant attacks and harassment of firefighters at fire scenes by mob action, the Federal Fire Service (FFS) has proposed to have an Arms Bearing Unit known as fire police to protect firefighters. The agency is also demanding an upward review of hazard allowance considering the nature of hazards faced by its personnel. Addressing a press conference Wednesday in Abuja Read More
In this piece, BODE OLAGOKE, takes a look at the recent presentation to the Senate Committee on Interior on the need for the establishment of the National Unity and Peace Corps (NUPEC) by Dr. Chinedu S. Nneji. The challenges facing Nigeria as a nation call for all hands to be on deck, most especially the challenge of insecurity, peaceful co-existence Read More
Following the ongoing strike action in Kaduna state, the Action Democratic Party (ADP) has asked governor Nasir El-rufai to immediately reverse all the policies considered against the wellbeing of workers in the state. The opposition party also called on the labour union to take cognisance of its members and the wider populace by being flexible and amenable to negotiations that Read More
No one can be more Biafran than this writer. I have seen Biafra. I have lived Biafra and been bathed in Biafra. Let me tell you something: It is not funny. I was about nine years old in May 1967 when Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu pronounced what is today known as the South-east together with a good chunk of the present South-outh Read More
Determined to make lottery a major source of revenue for the country, the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) said it will introduce a central monitoring system that would ensure all earnings due to government on lottery are collected with precision. Director General of the commission, Lanre Gbajabiamila who made the disclosure Sunday in Abuja, said with the new system, all Read More
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