Northern senators, especially those elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have threatened to revolt against the party if the controversial zoning template for leadership of the 10th National Assembly was not revisited. Specifically, former Governor of Zamfara State and Senator-elect, Abdulaziz Yari, said the entire North would revolt over the issue. He spoke when some Senate presidency aspirants visited the National Working Committee, NWC, of the APC, yesterday, in Abuja. adopted Senators Godswil Akpabio and Jibrin Barau. It also zoned the Speakership and Deputy Speakership to North-West and South-East and chose Tajudeen Abass and Ben Kalu…
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The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone B Kaduna, said that it intercepted a sack of military uniforms and others with a duty-paid value of N628m in one month. The zone’s Area Controller, Musa Jalo, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. Jalo said the military wears which were intercepted between March and April 2023, were en route to Nigeria from the Niger Republic. He also said during the period under review, the zone made 188 seizures of 17 different contrabands at different locations in the zone. He said, “Our operatives, while on a stop-and-search operation, intercepted one Volkswagen…
The first-ever African Knockout Championship hosted by African Knockout and led by Kamaru Usman will kick off in Nigeria at SOL Beach by Box Mall, Oniru, Lagos, on Friday (today). 26 fighters from seven African countries will battle for ultimate bragging rights and rewards in the first edition of the tourney, which will run in different segments until the first-ever AKO champions are announced in December in the final event of the year. At a press briefing held on Thursday, Natasha Belousova, COO and co-founder of 54 Limited, the company organizing the championship, explained their vision for organizing the event…
France’s border police this week busted an illegal immigration ring leasing out real French passports to migrants from sub-Saharan Africa so they could enter the country, a police source has said. The scam first came to light in November, when border agents at the main Paris airport stopped a man who had travelled from Mali on a passport that did not belong to him, the source said on Thursday. “He told us he had paid 7,000 euros ($7,600) to fly from Bamako to Paris with an authentic French ID document,” the source said. Police uncovered the existence of a network…
Date: 2023-May-12 🎯TOPIC: BE ALERT! 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW 👇 https://youtu.be/ott3IzvFHcE ✝️ TEXT: 1 Thessalonians 5: 1-28(NKJV) 5:1. But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 5:2. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 5:3. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 5:4. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake…
Running a business in Nigeria can sometimes be challenging. This is largely due to the many issues the country is plagued with. From issues of insecurity and unavailability of competent staff to poor infrastructure, inadequate infrastructure and constant depreciation of the naira, many small and medium-sized business owners have over the years struggled to still be in existence. With the emergence of new tech heads in the country, a small percentage of business owners have effectively run their businesses with the help of the string of tech apps created by some of these Nigerian tech eggheads who fully understand the…
In a bid to stem the spate of road crashes in the country, the Sector Commander of, Federal Road Safety Corps in Bauchi State, Mr. Yusuf Abdullahi, has called for the inclusion of Sharia Law in the prosecution of traffic offenders. Abdullahi made the call during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Bauchi. According to him, the laws guiding road crashes are not stringent enough, hence the need for introduction of stiffer laws such as the Sharia Law into traffic rules. Abdullahi said the measure would instill discipline, encourage respect for traffic rules and promote…
The Lamidi Apapa faction of the Labour Party has released a statement distancing itself from calls for an interim government and agitations that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, not be sworn in on May 29, pending the resolution of the petitions before the presidential election tribunal. According to the Labour Party faction, swearing in Tinubu on May 29, “may not have any impact on the ongoing legal tussle on the presidential election involving our party, APC and INEC.” The Labour Party, in a statement made available to The Punch by the faction’s spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi, argued that the Electoral Act and…
The management of Babcock University has said that the school’s website has been hacked by some unknown persons. The school management confirmed this development in a statement signed by the Director, Communication & Marketing of the institution, Dr Joshua Suleiman, on Wednesday. The statement read in part, “The public is hereby notified that the Babcock University management information system has been violated by suspected unscrupulous persons with intent to embarrass, deceive and defraud unsuspecting university clients and stakeholders. “The criminals had gained unauthorized, illegitimate, illicit access to some of the university’s client inconsequential records from the front-end server of the…
The Budget Office of the Federation has said Nigeria now has a “limited borrowing space” due to its poor debt-to-revenue ratio, stressing that “trouble” looms for the country if it exceeds its limits. The Director-General of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, while addressing members-elect of the 10th National Assembly at their week-long induction ceremony in Abuja on Wednesday, pointed out that while Nigeria remains healthy with its debt-to-GDP ratio, the country is not with its debt-to-revenue ratio. Akabueze was speaking to the newly elected and returning members of the National Assembly, which is responsible for the consideration, amendment and passage…