A former Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, has said that 52 developing countries are suffering severe unsustainable national debt burdens. He said the increase in the costs of debt servicing associated with climate vulnerability has become an issue of serious concern. Fagbohun stated this on Monday in Abuja while presenting a keynote address at the 2nd National Conference on Climate Change 2023, organised by Corporate Accountability & Public Participation Africa’s (CAPPA), with the theme: “Creating Agenda for Sustainable Climate Finance for Nigeria”. According to him, For emerging markets, low and medium-income economies in particular, climate vulnerability and…
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The Governor of Niger State, Mohammed Bago, says his administration has developed strategies to tackle the lingering security challenges in the state. Bago, who disclosed this on Sunday in Minna, at a dinner organised by the Niger State Government for the House of Representatives Press Corp, however, assured that the protracted won’t stop the state from making developmental strides. He said: “Niger State is the largest in terms of land mass in Nigeria, with 76,300 square kilometres of arable land. Niger State also has four Hydropower dams. That is Kianji, Jeba, Shiroro and Zungeru. We have the only white sand…
The operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Gombe State Command, has arrested 76 suspects and foiled a plan by some individuals to host a same-sex wedding. Out of the 76 suspects, 59 are males with 21 said to have confessed to being homosexuals, adding that 17 females were also arrested at the scene. The State Public Relations Officer, Buhari Sa’ad, disclosed this while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters. He said, “They were arrested at Duwa Plaza along Bauchi-Gombe Expressway while holding a homosexual birthday and they had plans to hold a same-sex wedding before…
The Kaduna State Schools Quality Assurance Authority (KSSQAA) has sealed Al-Azhar Academy, in Zaria, over alleged beating of a student to death. Director-General of KSSQAA, Dr. Usman Abubakar, in a statement issued on Sunday said the state’s Ministry of Education, representing the state government, along with the school, had launched a fact-finding mission. TheHintsNews reports that a JSS 3 student, Marwan Sambo, 19, was reported to have died from severe beating and corporal punishments by some teachers, over absenteeism. To this end, a team from the state government visited Zaria on a fact-finding mission to unravel transpired from the Al-Azhar…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 40-year-old businessman, Sherif Egbo, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja while attempting to board a flight to Paris, France. The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued Sunday the operatives of the agency arrested Egbo, based in Madrid, Spain, was apprehended on October 14. He said a body scanner revealed that he had ingested wraps of illicit drugs in his stomach, leading to his arrest. Babafemi said, “He was subsequently placed under observation at the agency’s exhibit recovery room where he excreted 93 pellets of heroin weighing 2.222…
The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has said that the downpour on Saturday evening in the nation’s capital has claimed the life of a 31 year old motorcyclist, Yakubu Lucky. Its Head of Public Affairs, Nkechi Isa in a statement issued Sunday said Lucky drowned after he drove into the pool of water at Dogongada in Lokogoma District of the territory. She said: “The deceased who defied warnings from the local divers stationed at Dogongada by the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), also navigated through the barricade placed by the Agency. “The Search and Rescue team of FEMA…
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has called on the country’s security agencies to arrest a Kaduna based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, over his recent public outburst against the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. TheHintsNews reports that Gumi had in a video posted on his official Facebook page last Thursday labelled Wike as a “Satan” for receiving the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria in his office. The cleric in the sermon also asserted that President Bola Tinubu would be stopped from serving for eight years. However, Nabena, in…
Troops of 33 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have neutralised an armed bandit in an ambush staged against the group on Friday in Bura, Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi state. Director Army Public Relations, Brig-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu in a statement issued Saturday said the troops acting on actionable intelligence laid in wait for the bandits and unleashed fire on them, killing one, while others fled with gunshot wounds leaving traces of blood. He said the troops recovered one AK-47 rifle, 14 live rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, a mobile phone and a fetish amulet from the bandit. Nwachukwu added…
As the country continues to battle insecurity, the Nigerian Army has passed out over 6000 Recruits of the 85 Regular Recruit Intake (RRI) in Kaduna state. Director Army Public Relations, Brig-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu in a statement issued Saturday said the journey to soldering by the 6,315 passing out recruits, began after successfully undergoing a painstaking selection process, and reporting for training at the Depot Nigerian Army on 3 June 2023, culminating in today’s POP. Addressing the Passing out Recruits, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, reaffirmed that the Nigerian Army will continue to give troops’ training and welfare…
Ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Kogi state, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says the allegations made by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) that the staff of the commission are allegedly reconfiguring Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) as false. The commission noted that three persons mentioned were not associated with the configuration of the BVAS machines and not even in Kogi State at the moment. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, in a statement issued Saturday said the configuration of BVAS is done simultaneously and exclusively in the commission’s offices in Bayelsa, Imo…