[ad_1] Universal Insurance PLC has said it paid N471,500 million as claims to Next Cash and Carry, a supermarket in Abuja which got burnt in 2021. The insurer said it has remained steadfast to the issue of prompt claims payment to policyholders. The company said a total of N1.2 billion was paid as claims to…
[ad_1] The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has expressed support to the federal government to remove sex education from the Basic Education Curriculum (BEC). This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the Chairman, Kano State chapter of MURIC, Malam Hassan Sani Indabawa. The group condemned the media attack against the Minister of Education,…
[ad_1] Residents of Yewaland in Ogun West Senatorial district, Ogun State, on Wednesday stormed Governor Dapo Abiodun’s office in protest against deplorable conditions of infrastructure in the region. The aggrieved residents from all the five Local Government Areas of the region, Ipokia, Imeko-Afon, Yewa North, Yewa South and Ado-Odo/Ota, expressed frustration over alleged marginalisation of…
By Gom Mirian The Federal Government has spent N14.6 billion on 160,572 individuals in six northern states, the National Coordinator, Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES), Mr. Abdulkarim Obaje has said. Obaje who disclosed this on Wednesday at the end of a ministerial town hall meeting, said the fund was part of the…
By Gom Mirian Nigerians, according to the Federal Government, may now ask their commercial banks to issue them with a debit card that also serves as their country’s identification card. Rising from the Federal Executive Council meeting held in Abuja under the chairmanship of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Minister of Communications and the Digital Economy,…
[ad_1] Governor-Elect of Kaduna State, Senator Uba Sani, has approved the appointment of Muhammad Shehu Lawal as his Chief Press Secretary. Lawal served as Special Assistant to the outgoing governor of Kaduna on Political Matters between 2019 and 2023. In a statement he personally signed, the Governor-Elect said the appointment took effect on May 23,…
By Gom Mirian The Labour Party (LP) and Peter Obi, its presidential candidate, have three weeks to submit their cases to the presidential election petition tribunal, which is sitting at the court of appeal in Abuja. The five-member tribunal panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, who revealed this while the hearing’s resumption on…
[ad_1] Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria accounts for 14 percent of the world’s maternal death burden due to largely preventable causes, including lack of services that skilled birth attendants could provide. He said 80 percent of these death burdens occurred at the primary healthcare and community levels. He spoke in Abuja yesterday while launching…
[ad_1] Some students and followers of Kano Islamic cleric convicted for blasphemy, Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, have alleged that some clerics were ganging up to frustrate his appeal. Daily Trust reported that Kabara was convicted by a Kano sharia court for blaspheming Prophet Muhammad (SAW) but has appealed the judgement at a Kano high court….
[ad_1] The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) Sunday suspended its five-day warning strike. Its president, Orji Emeka Innocent, told Daily Trust last night that work would resume 8am today. The association had embarked on the strike last Wednesday following the inability of the federal government to meet its demands. The NARD president said: “Progress…
