Breaking News in Nigeria Today Sunday 12th January 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Sunday 12th January 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
Read also
Troops clear Boko Haram enclaves, rescue captives in Borno
The Nigerian Army says its troops have cleared Boko Haram terrorists’ hideouts and rescued five captives including an octogenarian, three women and a minor across Borno State in the past few days. The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Iliyasu disclosed that troops of 121 Battalion deployed at Pulka in Gwoza Local Government Area, captured and destroyed the terrorists’ hideout at Zeledva Hills along Pulka – Bokko – Ngoshe Road on Wednesday. More elements of the Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgents,…
Southern Kaduna PDP leaders defect to APC
Governor Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Friday reiterated his administration’s commitment to improve security and development in the state. El-Rufai stated this while receiving some “heavy weights PDP members“ from Southern Kaduna who moved to the APC. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that among those who decamped to the ruling party were former commissioners, former Federal and State legislators, former Local Government Council Chairmen and other PDP officials. They were led by Chief Tony Hassan, the Dokajen Jaba, who said they came to align with Gov El-Rufai and…
Gbajabiamila, Wase eulogise Senate President Lawan at 61
Philip Nyam The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has eulogised the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, who is marking his 61st birthday. The Speaker said Lawan, who has been in the National Assembly since 1999 serving first in the House and later in the Senate, is one Nigerian that has actively contributed to the development of the country’s legislature. In a congratulatory message, he personally signed in Abuja on Saturday, the Speaker recalled the valuable contributions of the Senate President while he served…
We’ve power to probe Emir Sanusi, says Anti-graft agency
Muhammad Kabir The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti- Corruption Commission has insisted that the investigation of the finances of the Kano Emirate Council and the Emir Muhammadu Sanusi ll, is within its legal framework. Commission Chairman, Muhyi Magaji Rimin-Gado said this during a session with the media, adding that they have nothing personal against the Emir. The Emir had gone to the Federal High Court in Kano to seek a restraining order against the commission, saying he was not given fair hearing in the investigation. The matter…
Harmattan spikes asthmatic attacks, worsen health conditions, fuels wild fire
•‘People go about with cracked lips, feet, soles’ •We make more money during Harmattan –Spa The long held opinion that Harmattan does not occur in Lagos is currently being dismissed as the state is facing an intense harmattan, especially cold and haze, leaving children and adults with cracked lips, feet and soles. CHIJIOKE IREMEKA writes on how Nigerian can escape the scourge of this harsh climatic condition that has spiked crisis in asthmatic patient and others For a very long time in the history of Lagos…
2023: No plan to impose governor on Rivers –Wike
Emmanuel Masha Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that he will not impose any governor on the people of the state when his second term in 2023. The governor, who spoke yesterday during a solidarity visit by the Orashi Region of Rivers State at the Government House Port Harcourt on Saturday, noted that power cannot be given out as a gift. He cautioned against the politics of bitterness, which he said has denied several Rivers communities access to developmental projects. Wike urged the people of Orashi to…
179 law school students, new lawyers get Kwara scholarship
Stephen Olufemi Oni At least, 179 law students and new lawyers of Kwara State origin, have each been paid N100,000 scholarship after online application processes and verification that lasted weeks. The payment, made straight to beneficiaries’ accounts, was done in two batches after thorough screenings of the applicants, according to the statement by Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Hajia Sa’adatu Modibbo- Kawu. The statement said the first batch comprised 68 backlog students, who are still in the law school, out of the 89 who applied, while the…
Why Nigerians evade taxes –Ogunsanwo
Edwin Usoboh Oba-elect of Ilara-Epe and former Chairman of Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), Prince Olufolarin Ogunsanwo, has provided an insight into why people hardly pay taxes in Nigeria. Speaking at the annual Summit of January 9 Collective (J9C) with the theme: “The Tax Debate: For Young Business to Grow; Established Firms to Survive”, Prince Ogunsanwo, who was the Guest Speaker, said more people will be willing to pay if the money realised were judiciously used. He said: “What comes under periodic contest is the application or perceived misapplication…
We’ll be ready for the Olympics, says Dare
Charles Ogundiya T he Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has reiterated his initial stand that Nigeria will be ready to excel at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Speaking in Lagos on Friday, Dare said the welfare of athletes are his and the ministry’s priority at the moment. “Starting from their welfare, starting from the needed funds, making sure that we line them up to be at the different championships and trials they must attend,” he said. “We are working with federations to build up a calendar…
After the fall: can Alexander Zverev bounce back to tennis stardom?
The tennis player Alexander Zverev has blue eyes and shaggy blond hair and is 6ft 7in tall. His legs are stilts, and his face, journalists have pointed out, is that of an Abercrombie & Fitch model. Zverev actually has a modelling contract with Zegna, the Italian fashion brand, partly because he is a well-known tennis player, but also because he looks less like a tennis player and more like a luxury clothes horse. Zverev is 22. He joined the pro circuit in 2013, when he was 16. At the end…
Read also
You can also check
