By Aluta News June 30, 2021 Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State on Wednesday pardoned 36 convicted inmates serving various jail terms in the state. Sule during a visit to the Lafia Correctional Centre, said that the gesture was in fulfilment of his constitutional obligation. The governor, however, advised theContinue Reading
By Aluta News June 30, 2021 The Federal Government will, on Oct. 13, arraign the Managing Director (MD), Dana Air, Hathiramani Jacky Ranesh, in a Federal High Court, Abuja on allegations bordering on fraud. Justice Obiora Egwuatu fixed the date after counsel to the defendant, Ade Adedeji, SAN, told the court thatContinue Reading
By Aluta News June 30, 2021 Mrs Felicia Marinze, a 71-year-old PhD student of the University of Lagos, has emerged one of the best graduating students from the institution’s School of Postgraduate Studies (SPGS). The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe announced this at a news conferenceContinue Reading
By Aluta News June 30, 2021 Prof. Steve Nwokeocha of Sociology of Education, University of Calabar says plans are underway for teachers to bear the title “Distinguished” as borne by senators. Nwokeocha, who is Executive Director, Academics, Africa Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authorities, made this known in an interview withContinue Reading
By Aluta News June 30, 2021 The Senate on Wednesday passed the Firearms Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill 2021 raising the fine for illegal importation and sale of firearms from N1,000 to N1 million. The Bill was passed after it considered the report of its Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights andContinue Reading
By Aluta News June 30, 2021 Three Senators of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, resigned their membership of the party and defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). They are: Sen. Sahabi Ya’u (Zamfara North), Sen. Lawali Anka (Zamfara West), and Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi (Delta North). TheContinue Reading
By Mohammed Baba-Busu June 30, 2021 Etsu Nupe urges kinsmen to be united, brother’s keepers’ The Etsu Nupes and Chairman, Niger State Council of Traditional Rulers, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar has urged Nupes at home and in the Diaspora, to continue to be united, as well as be their brother’sContinue Reading
By Aluta News June 30, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of founding of the Communist Party of China. In a letter to the Chinese leader, according to a statement in Abuja on Wednesday by Femi Adesina,Continue Reading
By Aluta News June 30, 2021 Alhaji Yusuf Zailani, Speaker of Kaduna State House of Assembly, says the defection of Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara to All Progressives Congress (APC) is a pointer towards the party’s victory in 2023 . Zailani said this in a statement by his Special AdviserContinue Reading
By Aluta News June 30, 2021 A 40-day prayer was observed for the repose of the soul of late Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt,-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and other officers who died in the ill-fated Beach Craft King Air 350 crash in Kaduna on May 21. Others are the ChiefContinue Reading
