Five State branches of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), have endorsed Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi, as the youths’ candidates for the presidency in 2023. The NYCN, Kogi State chapter, recently embarked on the first phase of its state-to-state tour where it visited Ondo, Kwara, Niger, Nasarawa andContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 The Federal Government says it has planted 6,248,240 trees between 2019 and the second quarters of 2021. The Minister of State for Environment, Chief Sharon Ikeazor, said this at the 15th National Council on Environment (NCE), in Abuja. The theme of the NCE tagged:Continue Reading
By Aluta News Oct 22, 2021 The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, has intercepted 751 live ammunition concealed in a cassava flour. The Acting Controller of the unit, Deputy Comptroller Hussein Ejibunu, told a news conference in Lagos on Friday that the seizure was amongContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 An Osogbo Chief Majistrates’ Court, on Friday issued a warrant of arrest for a Facebook Blogger, Moshood Qaudri,for allegedly disrespecting the court supremacy . The Magistrate, Dr Olusegun Ayilara, had ordered the arrest of the blogger due to magnitude of the alleged offense committedContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 Some residents of Kaduna have lauded the decision of the Nigerian Railway Cooperation (NRC) to suspend train services on Abuja to Kaduna route for security reasons . Speaking to a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Kaduna, they saidContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will use the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Nigeria to promote strategic partnership to new heights. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, inContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 The Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), said on Friday in Abuja that a presidential panel has indicted Nnamdi Kanu for instigating subversive campaigns against the Nigerian state. Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra,Continue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 Women who conceive pregnancies after the age of 35 years stand the risk of being delivered of babies with Down syndrome, a speech therapist, Maryam Ibrahim-Maifada, has said. “The older the mother, the higher the risk of having a baby with Down syndrome,’’ Ibrahim-MaifadaContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 Sen. Ali Ndume, Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, has said that insecurity in Nigeria is reducing with hope that it will completely be eliminated. Ndume, representing Borno South, said while fielding questions from journalists after the turbaning of All Progressives Congress national chairmanship aspirant,Continue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 22, 2021 German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s EU counterparts lined up to pay her tribute on Friday at what may well be the conservative stalwart’s final summit after almost 16 years in office. Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg hailed her as a “great European,” while Luxembourg’s Prime Minister XavierContinue Reading