The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says Abayomi Dairo, a flight lieutenant, survived after one of its fighter jets crashed in Zamfara. There was a report of the crash on Sunday, but Edward Gabkwet, NAF spokesperson, said the air force was still trying to get the report of the incident. (Flight Lieutenant Abayomi Dairo with the Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky …
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A Nigerian military aircraft has reportedly gone down. The location was given as “somewhere in Kaduna State”. A source told DAILY POST that the crashed plane is an Alpha jet. “The fighter jet left Yola, the Adamawa capital, this morning to go clear bandits”, the informant added. Nigerian Air Force spokesman, Air Commodore Edward Gabwet, could not be reached as …
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Outbreak only declared when large cluster of cases is an emergency — NCDC The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, and health officials in Dallas, Texas are investigating a case of monkeypox in a traveller who arrived from Nigeria. In a statement, the Director of the Dallas County Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Philip Huang, stated: …
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A few years to the next round of fresh national elections, Nigeria is in the midst of a protracted, bitter, often violent, and sometimes deadly struggle to determine what kind of society and government structure it will have and what kind of future Nigerians can hope for. Two years from the 2023 general elections, it is too early to know …
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A group, Arewa 2023 Agenda for Peaceful Transition, has said that Nigerians may not have the last of the crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) as the plot to make former President Jonathan the party’s candidate in 2023 with Malami as running-mate, thickens. National Chairman of the group, Usaini Ibrahim Kano, said in a statement on Sunday, that already, …
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Nigeria recorded one death and 203 new cases of coronavirus infections on Sunday, authorities have said. According to the data released on its Facebook page on Sunday night by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), this is the first time the country is recording more than 200 cases since May 31 when the same number was reported. The new …
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The Nigerian Bar Association on Sunday took a swipe at the National Assembly over its decision on the electronic transmission of election results. The National Publicity Secretary of the NBA, Rapulu Nduka, in an interview with one of our correspondents, said the decision to attach conditions to the electronic transmission of election results had whittled down the powers of the …
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The All Progressives Congress has said that all aspirants contesting for the position of youth leader must be aged between 18-35 years. While granting waivers to new members and returning executives to contest, the party also announced that aspirants of various offices must present evidence of financial membership. The National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee, John Akpanudoedehe, …
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• Lagosians unaware of FreeTv as designated sales centres yet to begin The plan by the Federal Government to complete the country’s digital switchover (DSO) by December 7, 2022, might not be realised following the failure of the government to keep to the timelines set. Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)• Digital transition is on course, says …
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Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered Murtala Nyako (rtd) to enter his defence in the alleged N29 billion money laundering charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). Justice Abang gave the order on Monday while ruling on the no-case-submission filed by the former Adamawa governor, his son Abdul-Aziz …
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