By Aluta News March 28, 2024 TikTok has unveiled plans to launch online election centres on the platform as part of its efforts to support electoral integrity during 2024. The video-sharing site said more than two billion people in more than 50 countries were expected to go to the pollsContinue Reading
By Aluta News March 28, 2024 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disowned Wednesday’s Labour Party (LP) National Convention in Anambra. Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday. Oyekanmi saidContinue Reading
By Aluta News March 27, 2024 The Chief Whip of Senate, Sen. Ali Ndume has urged the Federal and State to intervene by subsidising the Hajj fare pegged at N5million, to enable first timers attend this year’s Hajj to the Holy Land. Ndume made the call in a statement onContinue Reading
By Aluta News March 27, 2024 The House of Representatives has commended the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, and other security agencies on their proactive efforts against insurgency and curbing of civil unrest in the country. The lawmakers also said it would organise a fact-finding mission intoContinue Reading
By Aluta News March 27, 2024 Nigeria’s public debt stock increased from N87.91 trillion (114.35 billion dollars ) in the third quarter of 2023 to N97.34 trillion (108.23 billion dollars ) in the fourth quarter of 2023. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said this on Tuesday in its NigerianContinue Reading
By Aluta News March 26, 2024 Israeli President Isaac Herzog has vowed that Hamas leader Yehya al-Sinwar will be gotten dead or alive. Herzog sees the Hamas leader as the lynchpin in the Gaza war and key to getting Israel’s hostages held in the Gaza Strip released. “In the end,Continue Reading
By Aluta News March 26, 2024 Police in Katsina State have rescued five persons suspected to have been kidnapped while travelling from Abuja to Zamfara. Police spokesman, ASP Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu, confirmed the rescue when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Katsina on Tuesday. He said aContinue Reading
By Aluta News March 26, 2024 The Minister of the Federal Capital (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has sought for huge investments from Indian investors, as part of strategies to fast tract the development of the capital territory, Abuja. Wike made the call when the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, MrContinue Reading
By Aluta News March 26, 2024 A Kano High Court sitting on Tuesday, sentenced a Chinese National, Frank Geng-Quangrong, 47, to death by hanging for stabbing his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22, to death. Frank, who lives in Railway Quarters Kano, was convicted on one count charge of culpable homicide.Continue Reading
By Aluta News March 26, 2024 The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) says it is working to resolve the shortage of Ramadan umrah visa for Nigerians. Mrs Fatima Sanda-Usara, the Assistant Director, Public Affairs,NAHCON, Mrs Fatima Sanda-Usara, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. She said thatContinue Reading
