Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, has said his administration will leverage on the high tech innovation and services offered by the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) to advance its e-governance strategies. The governor stated this when he hosted the management of NIGCOMMSAT, led by its Managing Director, Abimbola Alale, at…

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has generated the sum of N66 billion from stamp duties between January and May. The FIRS Director, Communications and Liaison Department, Abdullahi Ahmad, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Mr Ahmad said the Executive Chairman of FIRS, Muhammad Nami, disclosed…

Nigeria, on Friday, recorded 288 cases of COVID-19, its highest daily figure for the week. Four people also died from the virus on Friday. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), with Friday’s figure, the total tally of infected people in the country rose to 5,445 from 5,162…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the number of reported COVID-19 cases in the WHO African Region has increased from 33, 000 to over 34, 000 in the past 24 hours. The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO on…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has abruptly ended activities at orientation camps across the country. The Batch A orientation camps for graduates started last week, March 10, and were supposed to last for 21 days. Corps members in the camps were, however, shocked when they were told in the…

The latest James Bond movie franchise ‘No Time to Die’ will premiere in Nigeria for the first time in March. Heineken, a leading beverage company in Nigeria announced that it would facilitate the movie’s premiere in Nigeria next month. This was disclosed at a press conference held in Lagos on…

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja advised Christian and Muslim leaders, and preachers generally, in the country to give more attention to issues that strengthen the family, and build society, describing them as “custodians of our values and of social ideals’’. Speaking at the Joint National Conference of Nigerian Supreme…

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has fixed April 30 to deliver judgement in the case of a 37-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Emmanuel Idoko, accused of sexually assaulting his 12-year-old daughter by testing her virginity with his fingers. Justice Sybil Nwaka fixed the date after the prosecutor, Jide Boye,…

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday said Australia would evacuate more than 200 of its citizens onboard a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship being held under quarantine in the Japanese port of Yokohama. Mr Morrison said the passengers would depart on Wednesday and will be taken to Australia’s tropical north, where they…

Several residents of Tarkwa Bay, an island near the Lagos harbour, have been rendered homeless as armed soldiers stormed their homes to forcefully evict them, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. The residents' homes were also demolished. It is unclear if the eviction was meted only on residents whose homes were situated…

An Osogbo Magistrate Court has sent Sadiat Jimoh, a 30-year-old woman, to jail for stealing a goat. The woman said she stole the goat to settle her son's medical bill. Mrs Jimoh was sentenced to six months imprisonment after she was found guilty of stealing a she-goat, valued at N45,000.…

The Northern Youths Assembly (NYA) has advised Zamfara State Government to shelve its proposed N7 billion Government House project in the best interest of the people. This is contained in a statement signed by Mannir Haidara the state’s NYA Chairman in Gusau on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…

A total of 525 kidnap victims have regained their freedom from their abductors in Zamfara State, the Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Abubakar Dauran, has said. Mr Dauran stated this in Gusau, the state capital on Tuesday when members of the state Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of…

Some yet to be identified gunmen have kidnapped Ibrahim Pada, a third class traditional ruler of Rubochi in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Rubochi, Michael Ada, who confirmed the incident on Wednesday, said the traditional ruler was abducted at his…

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the failure to repay $7 billion disbursed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to 14 global asset managers and their Nigerian counterparts. This is sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Abubakar Ahmad (APC-Gombe) at the plenary on Thursday.…

A human rights lawyer, Morakinyo Ogele, on Thursday dragged the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, before a High Court in Ado Ekiti seeking N1 billion in damages over the killing of two students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE). Also joined in the suit is the Commissioner of Police…

There was a clash between students of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, and truck drivers on Thursday. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the clash occurred when some students holding a rally for their upcoming union election blocked the road. While this was going on, a truck driver hit…

At least 27 children were killed in a fire at an Islamic school in Monrovia, Liberia on Tuesday. The police told BBC that "they are still looking for bodies in the Paynesville area" where the fire occurred. According to a police spokesman, Moses Carter, the first fire broke out while…

Imminent River by Anaele Ihuoma; Prima - Narrative Landscape Press, Lagos, Nigeria; 2018; 347pp There is the compelling need for me to go back to the publishing of Alex Haley’s Roots in 1976 to find a book that bears comparison to Anaele Ihuoma’s debut novel Imminent River. Just as after…

The elections of Uche Ekwunife and Ifeanyi Ubah as senators from Anambra have been validated by an election tribunal. Both lawmakers were elected during the February 23 National Assembly elections across Nigeria Mrs Ekwunife of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated Victor Umeh of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA)…

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday inaugurated its Agro-Rangers unit to check farmers and herders clashes in the state. The State Commandant of the Corps, Lucy Samu, said during the occasion that the inauguration presented an opportunity for the nation to be hopeful security-wise and embrace…

Zimbabwe hiked fuel prices on Monday for the second time in a week but most pumps remained dry, with no end in sight to shortages that are helping drive inflation rapidly higher. The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority said in Harare a litre of petrol would now cost 7.45 Zimbabwe dollars,…

Officials on Wednesday reported that a dam in Maharashtra’s coastal Konkan region breached following incessant rain, and in the tragedy, dozens of houses in the downstream areas were washed away. District officials said Tiware dam in coastal Ratnagiri district developed a breach on Tuesday night after heavy rain. The officials…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has ignored a letter by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nominating Kingsley Chinda as the Minority Leader of the House. The Speaker instead announced Ndudi Elumelu as Minority Leader, amidst protest by many lawmakers. The opposition party had in a letter…

Senate President Ahmed Lawan has announced a six-member ad-hoc committee on Media and Public Affairs. He made the announcement at the start of plenary on Wednesday. “We are going to set up an ad hoc committee on Media and Public Affairs for the meantime before the reconstitution of the standing…