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Maiduguri, March 2, 2023 – Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno on Thursday said the fire incident at the Monday Market in Maiduguri on Sunday destroyed 13,000 shops. Zulum said this while briefing President Muhammadu Buhari, who visited the scene of the fire incident on Thursday. He said the fire affected at least 20,000 traders. Zulum told the president that the North East Development Commission (NEDC) through the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, had provided support for the victims. “In addition to this, the Borno government …

Lagos, Feb. 27, 2023 – Armed soldiers have been deployed on the streets of Lagos following the mayhem caused by hoodlums after the release of the result of the presidential election. Bola Tinubu, an indigene of the state and the APC Presidential Candidate, came second to Peter Obi, an Igbo man and Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the election. The Global Business News (GBN) reports that armed soldiers were sighted in different parts of the state after the mayhem broke out. Hoodlums took to the streets in parts of …

Asaba, Feb. 27, 2023 – An INEC staff was killed by policemen, while some youth corps members were injured in Delta State on Saturday after the elections. Udoh Tom, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Delta, told journalists in Asaba on Monday that the policemen, at a checkpoint in Ukwuani Local Government, shot at the commercial bus conveying election materials. Udoh Tom said the commercial bus was shot at after the driver refused to stop at the police checkpoint. He said the injured youth corps members were receiving treatment at …

Abuja, Feb. 24, 2023 – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has appointed Aihaji Isa Abdulmumin as the Acting Director of Corporate Communications Department of the bank. Abdulmumin is taking over from Osita Nwanisobi as head of the Corporate Communications Department following his retirement from service on Friday. Abdulmumin, a Deputy Director, has been in the Corporate Communications Department of the CBN since he joined the bank. Nwanisobi took over from Isaac Okorafor in 2020. (GBN)

Abuja, Feb.  24, 2023 – The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday dismissed the appeal filed by Abba Kyari, a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, seeking reversal of an earlier ruling by a High Court in Abuja refusing his bail. Justice Stephen Adah read the unanimous judgment of the three-member panel which held that Kyari’s appeal was without merit. He said that Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who had earlier rejected the bail application to Kyari exercised his discretion in refusing to grant Kyari bail. …

Lagos, Feb. 23, 2023 – The partnership between NAFADC and University of Medical Sciences in Ondo will formalise collaboration between the two institutions and commit them to working closely in the areas of training and capacity building. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director General of NAFDAC, said this in Lagos on Tuesday at the official signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Agency and the nation’s premier University of Medical Sciences (UniMed), Ondo, Ondo State. Adeyeye said the two institutions would be collaborating in the areas of scientific …

Abuja, Feb, 23, 2023 – Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday ordered a tenant, Mrs Oyindamola Ogundipe, to pay an accumulated rent amounting to N11.2 million to her landlord, Mr Monguno. The total amount comprises rent arrears of N6.4 million which accumulated between 2019, 2020 and 2021, as well as N267,000 monthly payments between August, 2021 and February, 2022 respectively. The payment also included N267, 000 monthly as mesne profit, from March 1, 2022 to date until when the defendant completes the payment and vacates the property. Delivering the …

Lagos, Feb. 21, 2023 – An employee of the Lagos State University, Ojo, Mr. Johnson Ademola, died on Monday afternoon while trying to withdraw money in a bank within the institution. It was gathered that the incident happened at a branch of Wema Bank in the university where the deceased went to withdraw some money. Ademola, who until his death was a financial officer in the Faculty of Law, was said to have slumped while waiting in the queue for his turn to withdraw cash. Efforts to revive him reportedly …