Jigawa state government has paid the sum of N1.7 billion to 707 retirees of the state civil service for the month of February, 2023. Addressing reporters at the state Pension House on Wednesday, the executive secretary of the board, Alhaji Kamilu Musa, said the beneficiaries include all categories. “It includes the retirement, death, death pension balance, refund of 8 percent Read More
The President and members of the Olympic and Commonwealth Games Movement in Nigeria have commiserated Guardian Newspapers at Rutam House over the demise of its Photo Editor, Femi Adebeshin Kuti, 57, who died January 6, 2023. He passed at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta during a brief ill-health A statement signed by the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) PRO, Tony Nezianya Read More
A frontline advocacy group against Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) – Men Against Rape Foundation (MARF) has warned the Lagos State Police Command to desist from being used to intimidate and harass the mother and brothers of late Bimbo Martins Ogbonna at the instance of her husband, Ikechukwu Ogbonna. Bimbo, documented by some respected anti-domestic violence non governmental bodies Read More
Eighteen months after the killing of Samuel Okoro, a personal assistant to Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a Division of the federal high court sitting in Anambra has ordered the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Department of State Services (DSS) to pay N150 million as damages for his death. The court also ordered them to pay the sum of Read More
No fewer than 19 people have been killed by a group of armed bandits in Riyoji village under Birnin Tsaba district of Zurmi local government area in Zamfara state. A resident of the area, Lawali Birnin Tsaba, in a telephone interview, said the bandits invaded the village at around 10:00pm Wednesday and began shooting sporadically into the air. He said Read More
The Federal High Court, Abuja Division has granted leave to Men Against Rape Foundation (MARF) to commence legal process to compel the speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamilla and members of the House of Representatives to comply with its own resolution to conduct investigative public hearing into the rape and death of 14-year old boarding student of Premiere Read More
I saw the sad news on Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde’s timeline and called to confirm only for it to be repeated. “Abdulrauf ko, kayi hakuri ban kira ba,” that was what my uncle Maikudi Kalunga told me immediately after he picked up my call. At that moment, I knew the meticulous Abdulrauf Musa has indeed passed away. He died on Read More
Not fewer than four people died and many sustained injuries as a result of the outbreak of rabies in Dukku local government area of Gombe State in the last two years. Chairman of the local government Honourable Jamilu Ahmed Shabewa disclosed this Wednesday during the flag off of the nationwide mass anti- rabies vaccination organized by the federal ministry of Read More
A 45-year-old woman and another five-year-old girl, were part of the fatalities that were recorded after a stampede that was recorded at at the Comfort Life Mission International Church, Lagos on Thursday, the Lagos State Police Command, confirmed on Friday. Spokesperson for the command, Benjamin Hundeyin, a Superintendent of Police (SP), who confirmed the incident, was quoted by the News Agency Read More
I would have been seven days dead, close to that, or more than, when this piece must have been published, if the ethnic militiamen have had their way. My corpse would have been lying in one of the forest of the moutainous terrains of Takum local government area, in Taraba state, Nigeria, having been abducted by ethnic warriors in Takum Read More
At least two persons were burnt beyond recognition at Umunya, Oyi local government area, Anambra state as a Mack tanker with no registration number crashed behind an urban shuttle bus. An eyewitness, Mr. Ikechi Otu, told Blueprint that the accident occurred around 10am, Tuesday, along the Enugu-Onistha Expressway as a result of over-speeding on the side of the petrol tanker Read More
A leading organisations working against rape in Nigeria on the aiges of Make A Difference Initiative (MAD) and Federal Government Girls College (FGGC) Gboko Old Students Chapter have asked Benue State Government to Appeal the court judgement of Benue State High Court in Makurdi, which acquitted Andrew Ogbuja, a lecturer at the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, of raping and causing Read More
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed the death of a missing corps member, Stephanie Se-Ember Terungwa, with State Code Number FC/21B/5807. The Scheme also revealed that investigations were on-going to unravel the identity of the perpetrators of the dastardly act in order to bring them to justice. A statement issued Friday by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Read More
A viral video has captured the moment some men were digging the grave of a deceased pregnant woman. Report has is that the pregnant woman was due for delivery but died under mysterious circumstances with the baby reportedly crying inside the grave. Some men decided to destroy the grave to see for themselves if the baby crying is real or Read More
One of the victims of last Monday Kaduna train attack, Sergeant Muhammad Haruna Funtua (rtd), has died as a result of multiple gunshot injuries he sustained during the attack. The deceased, who was shot by the bandits in the head and the chest during the attack on the Kaduna bound Abuja train, was among those rescued by security agencies. Blueprint Read More
Actress Takor Veronica has been found dead in a hotel room in Benue state one week after celebrating her birthday. Veronica was found dead in a hotel room at Nyinma area of Makurdi, Benue State, just after celebrating her birthday on March 12. Circumstances surrounding her death are still sketchy but the state police spokesperson, SP Catherine Anene, said three suspects have been Read More
The secretary-general, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Malam Murtala Aliyu, has expressed sadness at the death of the forum’s publicity secretary, Chief Emmanuel Yawe, describing his death as “a shock.” Yawe, a retired journalist, died Friday morning from what was believed to be a long-term sickness. He was, however, active as the image-maker of the pan-Northern socio-cultural organisation till his death. Read More
The executive director, Gabasawa Children Empowerment Initiative, Evangelist Doris Yaro, has announced the death of her mother, Rev. Rahila Wakshama, who slept in the Lord on February 6, 2022, in Lagos, after a brief illness. A statement released by Evangelist Doris Yaro indicated that her late mother, who was born on August 30, 1950, in Borno state, did her theological Read More
Osun state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has condoled with his Sokoto state counterpart, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal over the death of his elder brother, Alhaji Muhammadu Bello, the Wazirin Tambuwal. Oyetola said he received news of Bello’s death with a heavy heart and also condoled the entire Tambuwal family on the passing of their patriarch. The governor’s condolence message was contained in Read More
The executive secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Yakubu Pam, has announced the passing away to glory of his mother, Ngo Zimi Pam, who, according to him, slept in the Lord on January 15, 2022, at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital (JUTH), after a protracted illness. This was contained in a prAdoyi M. Abess statement issued by the Read More
Late Barr. Rabo Barde
A renowned Kano-based Islamic scholar, Dr. Ahamed Bamba, died in the early hours of Friday, after a brief illness at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. His death came six days after the demise of the renowned politician, business man and elder statesman, Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, whose sad incident occurred at the same hospital. During his life time, the deceased Read More
The remains of late Archbishop Desmond Tutu has arrived at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town where it will lie in state for two days. The Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end apartheid in South Africa died on Sunday December 26, 2021, aged 90. His remains will be laid to rest on January 1, 2022 after the lying-in-state period, Read More
Disaster struck at the weekend in Niger state when a family of four including a man, two wives and a son along with three other people got drowned in a boat mishap in Zungeru dam. The family were said to be travelling from Zhigiri village in Shiroro local government area of Niger state to Dnaweto, a neighbouring village for naming Read More
Mrs Mary Abiola Wayas, wife of former Senate President, Late Joseph Wayas, has passed on barely 12 days after her husband died in a London hospital. Late Mrs Wayas’s husband died in the United Kingdom on November 30th, 2021. She died in a London Hospital on 12th December 2021 after a brief illness, Joseph Wayas Jnr has revealed. She is survived Read More
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