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29/03/2024

THE POLICE Command in Delta has handed over King Clement Ikolo, the traditional ruler of Ewu Kingdom in Ughelli South LGA of the state to the military authorities. The spokesperson of the command, SP Bright Edafe, confirmed the development to newsmen on Friday through a terse message in Warri. The e...

29/03/2024

PRESIDENT Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, headlined a star-studded fundraiser with former President Bill Clinton on Thursday, offering a robust defense of the White House's handling of the Gaza crisis as protesters interrupted the event. Biden, who traveled with Obama on Air....

29/03/2024

ISRAEL sustained its aerial and ground bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing dozens of Palestinians, as fighting raged around Gaza City's main Al Shifa hospital, Palestinian officials and the Israeli military said. Palestinian health officials said two Israeli strikes on the Al-Shejaia su...

29/03/2024

THE WORLD Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave's Palestinian population and halt spreading famine. But Gaza's Hamas rulers said a ceasefire was needed to halt...

29/03/2024

IT IS in the genre of fairy tales. A virtually unknown 43-year-old in 2023, makes a Facebook post alleging that Macky Sall, the ubiquitous President of his country, Senegal, was trampling on the fundamental rights of citizens. His post was in support of jailed opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, and t...

29/03/2024

I HAVE been in Senegal as part of the ECOWAS Election Observation Mission led by Professor Ibrahim Gambari and the story of the 2024 polls is a pleasing one. The Senegalese people have the capacity to throw out ruling presidents when they derail. In other words, they understand the theory of democra...

28/03/2024

By Amos Aar GOVERNOR Hyacinth Alia on Wednesday inaugurated Benjamin Omakolo as acting chairman along with other members of the State Executive Committee (SEC) of the Benue State chapter of the All Progressives Congress. The inauguration fills the vacuum said to have been created by those who allege...

21/01/2024

By Amos Aar MORE dead bodies of officers of the Operation Whirl Stroke who were killed on Thursday in the course of repelling an attack by suspected herdsmen militia against Okokolo and other communities in Agatu local government area of Benue State have been found. This was disclosed by Hon. Yakubu...

19/01/2024

IN A CHAPTER he contributed to a book of tributes to mark my 50th birthday, some 14 years ago, Seun gave a riveting account of our first encounter in October 1979 when we reported, as freshmen and as undergraduates at the University of Jos, Jos, Plateau State. I disagreed with the character attribut...

15/01/2024

THE RIVERS State House of Assembly will on Wednesday re-screen and re-confirm nine former commissioners who resigned from the state executive council in the wake of the crisis between Governor Fubara and Nyesom Wike, former governor of the state and current governor of Rivers State. This is containe...

29/12/2023

VENEZUELAN Special Envoy and Ambassador to the African Union, Alex Nain Saab Morán, who, against the established diplomatic practice of immunity, had been illegally detained in Cape Verde for sixteen months and in the United States for two years, was freed on Wednesday, December 20, 2023. He was ex...

29/12/2023

By Amos Aar FORMER Nigerian President, General Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd), has congratulated his Special Assistant (SA), Mr Atom Lim, on his emergence as the President of Mount Saint Gabriel's Secondary School Old Boys Association (MSGOBA), Set 2001. The former Nigerian president expressed confidence i...

29/12/2023

By Amos Aar THE BENUE State Government has directed that elections in all students and Alumni’s associations in the state be put on hold until further notice from the government. Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Hyacinth Alia on Youth Mobilisation and Empowerment, Hon. Mkeenem Moses, con...

29/12/2023

By Amos Aar THE BENUE State Police Command has told residents of Makurdi, Benue State capital, not to panic when they hear bang sounds at midnight on December 31, 2023 as the police are going to display government-sponsored fireworks. Benue State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Superintenden...

29/12/2023

FIXING the Nigerian economy was arguably PMB’s toughest challenge. The Buhari economic years witnessed double-dip recession, with unprecedented number of unemployed people and widespread poverty. Nigeria’s fiscal position became more uncertain, disruptive, and precarious. All Federal Government ...

29/12/2023

ONCE again, there is outrage throughout Nigeria as armed men invaded communities in Plateau State over the Christmas weekend killing an estimated 200 innocent villagers and forcing tens of thousands to flee their land in search of self-preservation. For Plateau State, it has been over twenty years t...

29/12/2023

Last year, National Record published a detailed investigative report of how Dangote Coal Mines Ltd, and Dangote Cement Plant, subsidiaries of Dangote Group, in their exploration of mineral resources in Benue State caused extensive environmental pollution in their host communities. The two-part repor...

28/12/2023

A FEDERAL High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, extended the 15 December interim order stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from taking any action against the 26 Rivers House of Assembly members who defected to the All Progressives Congress...

28/12/2023

THE NIGER State Government has debunked media reports claiming that the government has through the state’s Liquor and Licensing Board, prohibited the sale of alcohol in some local government areas of the state, including Suleja. The state government noted that Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago never is...

28/12/2023

Sowore, Sahara Reporters, Aduda Listed as Co-defendants. By Vera E. Abah FORMER Nigerian Ambassador to Namibia and Head of Mission in Jamaica, Ambassador Lilian Onoh, has sued the immediate past Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, for defamation in a court in Texas, U.S.A.....

27/12/2023

By Amos Aar BENUE State governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has again debunked claims that he has serious dispute with his supposed godfather, Senator George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Alia made the disclaimer Tuesday at the Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi du...

27/12/2023

A FORMER Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’Abba, is dead. He died in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja. Na’Abba, who was elected Member of the House of Representatives in 1999 from Kano State, became Speaker of the House of Representatives following the resignation of th...

27/12/2023

ARRANGEMENTS are almost completed to swear in Lucky Aiyedatiwa, Acting Governor of Ondo State, as the state governor following the death of the governor, Rotimi Akeredolu. Media reports reveal that Aiyedatiwa was in his hometown for the Christmas break when the news of the governor’s death broke, ...

25/12/2023

By Amos Aar THE SECRETARY to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, on Sunday flagged off free Diarrhea treatment programme for ten thousand (10,000) children in Wannune, his hometown of Tarka LGA. Represented by Dr Emmanuel Tyover, who is the Rector, Wannune Federal Polytechn...

25/12/2023

By Amos Aar BENUE State governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, and members of his cabinet were all absent during the homecoming reception held in honour of Senator George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), who arrived Benue on Saturday ahead of his 70th birthday anniversary a...

25/12/2023

AMBASSADOR Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, stepped out on Thursday, December 21, 2023 to explain to Nigerians the four-dimensional space built by the Tinubu administration for the country’s foreign policy. Tuggar, 56, a player in the oil and gas industry had in th...

24/12/2023

By Amos Aar THE CHIEF Press Secretary (CPS) to Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State, Tersoo Kula, has confirmed that there is a rift between his principal and his supposed godfather, Senator George Akume the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). The frayed relationship between the tw...

23/12/2023

By Amos Aar BENUE State governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia has unfrozen bank accounts of the Benue Investment and Property Company (BIPC) limited locked since his inauguration into office on May 29, 2023. Information Officer of the agency, Mr Peter Asema, confirmed the unfreezing of the accounts to Na...

23/12/2023

THE CATHOLIC Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) last Wednesday made its views public on the controversy trailing Vatican’s recent Declaration issued on December 18, 2023 which some interpret as green light for the same-sex union by the Catholic Church. But the CBCN says the Papal Declaration onl...

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