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Angry youth in the early hours of Monday set ablaze the school where the kidnappers of Hanifa Abubakarb buried the remains of the five-year-old girl in Kano. The private school, Noble Kids Comprehensive College, is located at Kwanar Dakata in Nassarawa local government area, in Kano metropolis. Hanifa was abducted on December 2 by her teacher, Abdulmalik Tanko, who is also the …

The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has joined several Nigerians calling for capital punishment for the killer of Hanifa Abubakar, the five-year-old Kano girl that was abducted and murdered by her teacher. Mrs Buhari shared a short clip of a sermon by an Islamic scholar, Abdallah Gadon Kaya, demanding justice for the late Hanifa. In the video, Mr Gadon Kaya called on the …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released guidelines for the newly-introduced electronic invoicing (e-invoicing) and evaluator for exporters and importers, saying the process commences on February 1, 2022. The new regulation, it stated, is aimed at determining the accurate value for goods leaving the country or otherwise. The migration was announced in August, last year. At the weekend, the …

Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) in Edo State has encouraged residents of the state to embrace its plastic waste recycling scheme to curb indiscriminate waste disposal, especially plastic, aluminium and other non-degradable materials. The Coordinator of Edo NEWMAP, Dr. Tom Obaseki, made the call during an address to stakeholders at a one-day training workshop on the pilot deployment …

Confidants of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), are currently waiting for him to reveal his preferred aspirant among the presidential hopefuls in the ruling All Progressives Congress, according to Sunday PUNCH. This, according to findings, explains why the confidants, comprising serving ministers, close aides and his kitchen cabinet, could not make any open commitment to any of the …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – A septuagenarian widow, Mrs. Rebecca Omorodion and her tenants have been rendered homeless after fire destroyed her residential building, cash and household property worth millions of Naira in Benin City, last Friday. It was gathered that the fire started in one of the rooms after electricity was restored to the area about 5pm …

As jostling for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential ticket gets tougher, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has warned his supporters against insulting or abusing APC National Leader and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Osinbajo served as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos under Tinubu. Both men are eyeing the APC 2023 presidential ticket, …

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has given the management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund(NSITF) a January 2022 ultimatum to re-adjust the staff salary structure of the fund. The Minister who addressed the closing ceremony of its two-day Management Performance Review, Saturday, at the Nigeria Airforce Centre, Abuja also gave the agency three months to …

• Buhari’s Clueless Regime Has Mortgaged Nigeria’s Future With Indebtedness — Ayu Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, foreclosed any chance of returning to partisan politics, insisting that no amount of persuasion would make him rescind his decision, which is final. Obasanjo who said that he had left party politics for good, however, noted that he would continue to contribute his …

Some members of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly, have disclosed that they had not stopped on the process of amending the country’s 1999 constitution, assuring Nigerians that the amended document  would be ready before the end of the ninth national assembly. While speaking with journalists in Ibadan yesterday, at a town hall meeting with their constituents, the …