The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Ministry of Education to ensure that security education is incorporated as a core subject in the Primary and Secondary Schools Curriculum. The House mandated the Committee on Basic Education and Services to ensure implementation. These resolutions followed the adoption of a motion titled, “Need to Incorporate Security Education as Core Subject in Nigeria’s Primary and Secondary School Curriculum” moved by Hon. Omirin Emmanuel Olusanyo. The House noted that Security Education is crucial for fostering knowledge and preparedness, enabling Individuals to understand potential threats and take appropriate measures to protect themselves and their…
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Operatives of the Nigeria Security Civil Defence Corps, Ungoggo Division, Kano State Command, have arrested suspected kidnapper, Ibrahim Usman, at Yar’adua quarters, Rimin Kebe, Ungoggo Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Ibrahim Abdullahi, a copy of which was made available to the News corespondent on Thursday. “The 85-year-old suspect, Ibrahim Usman, abducted the victim, a three-year-old boy who is a child in the neighbourhood and attempted to hide him in his friend’s residence situated at the Hotoro bye-pass in Kano State. “Having suspected foul play, his friend refused…
Nigeria’s men’s and women’s table tennis teams continued their quest for more medals at the African Games after they cruised to the next round of the team event, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. While the men’s team reached the quarter-finals of the team’s event, the women’s team zoomed to the semis on Wednesday. In Group 2 of the men’s team event, Nigeria’s Matthew Kuit and Amadi Omeh defeated Mauritania’s trio Ahmed El Hacen, Ahmed Youssef and Sagna Hamina 3-0 in their opening game before outclassing DR Congo duo Kassa Gedon and Christian Mbongia by the same scoreline in their second group…
Some bandits were reported to have invaded the LEA Primary School, Kuriga in the troubled Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, kidnapping scores of pupils on Thursday morning. A source, who is a resident of the area, said no fewer than 100 pupils were taken away by the bandits who stormed the town in large numbers. It was also gathered that the head teacher of the school as well as other staff were among those abducted by the hoodlums. Details of the incident were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report. Penultimate Thursday, bandits invaded the…
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, directed the Federal Inland Revenue Service to recover all taxes totalling over N5.19trn owed the Federal Government by Ministries, Departments and Agencies, oil companies as well as individuals. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion on the floor of the House on Thursday, moved by the member representing Oredo Federal Constituency of Edo State, Esosa Iyawe. Leading the debate on the motion titled “Alleged non-remittance and under-remittance of tax by Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government, oil companies and other organisations”, the Labour Party chieftain recalled that in 2021, “The FIRS revealed that…
The Nigeria Police, on Thursday, said that preliminary investigations conducted have unearthed compelling evidence indicting Mrs. Chioma Okoli’s alleged role in the violation of extant laws in the Erisco Tomato saga. This is even as the force cautioned members of the public against spreading misinformation and attempting to manipulate public sentiment, adding that the law operates impartially and that any attempt to subvert it would be met with the full force of legal action. The warning was issued by ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer, Force headquarters, Abuja. Adejobi said the recent developments in the case were deeply worrisome,…
The trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor, Godwin Emefiele, continued on Thursday before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja. Emefiele is standing trial before Justice Muazu on 20-count amended charges bordering on corrupt advantages, conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, forgery and obtaining by false pretenses to the tune of $6,230,000. At the resumed hearing, a forensic analyst confirmed that a document used to request the payment of $6.2million for foreign election observers was forged. The witness, Bamaiyi Meriga, called by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, informed the court that…
No fewer than 260,000 candidates on Thursday sat for this year’s Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination across 793 Computer-Based Test centres across the country. The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, made this known after monitoring some of the centres in Abuja. Oloyede, who expressed delight over the seamless conduct of the exercise nationwide, said the exam was to test the preparedness for the main UTME, which will commence on Friday, 19th April 2024. He revealed that the exam body also successfully conducted a recruitment examination for Nigerian Police on Wednesday, adding that the only few incidents recorded in the Mock…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, indicted banks as being linked to about 70 percent of the financial crimes in Nigeria. EFCC’s Chairman, Ola Olukayode, disclosed this while speaking in Abuja at the 2023 Annual Retreat and General Meeting of the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria. He pointed out that the banking sector was increasingly becoming a cesspool of fraudulent activities and this had been raising considerable challenges and concerns to the commission. Olukayode who was represented by the Director, Internal Audit, EFCC, Idowu Apejoye, said there was a need for concerted effort by…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, advised that Nigeria should approach the government of Zimbabwe for a solution to the current all-time high inflation in the country. He noted that since Zimbabwe was recently confronted with the same problem and came out of it, the southern African country would have useful advice for Nigeria. In its latest release, the National Bureau of Statistics put Nigeria’s inflation at 29.9 per-cent. The country is currently grappling with high cost of living, with pockets of protests breaking out across the country as Nigerians contend with increasing prices of foodstuffs. Obasanjo, speaking on Monday…