By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 President Muhammadu Buhari has received a comprehensive briefing on the coup attempt to oust President Umaru Embalo of Guinea-Bissau on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the coup was, however, aborted by loyal forces in that country. Mr Femi Adesina, theContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 The U.S. government is once again threatening Russia with the shutdown of the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the event of an invasion of Ukraine. U.S. President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan issued the threat in an interview with broadcasterContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized over 22,160 kilograms of Codeine syrup, Methamphetamine and Skunk at Apapa seaport and a notorious drug den at Akala, Mushin, Lagos State. The Director of Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, made the disclosureContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 Prof. Pat Utomi, a political economist, says Nigeria needs a selfless, pan-Nigerian nationalist and intellectual leader to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Utomi, a former presidential candidate on the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), stated this in an interview with theContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 At 27.4 per cent, Anambra has topped the list of states where married women use traditional contraceptives to control childbirth with Yobe having the lowest figure at 0.3 per cent. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) made the disclosure in its Demographic Statistics forContinue Reading
By Aluta Me Feb. 6, 2022 The Presidency has criticised the wrong perceptions in David Piling’s article on Nigeria published by the Financial Times on Jan. 31. One of the President’s spokesmen, Malam Garba Shehu, condemned the article in a statement on Sunday, in Abuja, while expressing reservations over theContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 Igbo Women Forum, a political group, says it will mobilise at least 25 million votes for Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi in the 2023 Presidential election. The group stated this in a statement by its President, Mrs Uju Obi, in Abuja on Sunday. SheContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 Ponzi Schemes, easy money promised through an elaborate network in which participants pool money for individual’s benefit, may have cost Nigerians more than 486 million dollars (N200 billion) in recent years, financial experts have said. The experts, Mr Yomi Babalola; Mr Tunji Adepeju andContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed has dragged an online publication, Pointblank News, before an Abuja High court over alleged libel. In a copy of the Writ of Summon obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, the minister is seeking theContinue Reading
By Aluta News Feb. 6, 2022 Muslim women from different Islamic Organisations, under the aegis of Coalition of Nigerian Muslim women, on Saturday converged in the Unity Park, Abuja, to create awareness on the significance of wearing Hijab. They called on relevant government agencies to protect women wearing Hijab fromContinue Reading
