The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has announced that corps members will begin receiving a monthly allowance of N77,000 starting from February 2025. General Ahmed made this announcement on Thursday while addressing the 2024 Batch ‘C’ Stream 11 corps members in Katsina. He explained that the new…
The Nigeria Police Force has apprehended Private Bara’u Tajuddeen, a soldier with service number 22NA/82/3441, over alleged theft of military ammunition and anti-aircraft rounds. Tajuddeen, assigned to the 19 Special Force Brigade in Maiduguri, was detained at the Maiduguri motor park en route to Kano, reportedly attempting to sell the stolen weapons to bandits. According…
A student who wrote the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) shared her result after it was released. The student had earlier signed out of secondary school like a university student on the day she finished her WAEC examination The result shows that the student passed her WAEC in flying colours as she got an…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has announced that 800 former Boko Haram fighters are undergoing deradicalisation and rehabilitation. This programme, tagged Operation Safe Corridor, aims to reintegrate these ex-terrorists into society. Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief programme on Monday, Maj.-Gen. Emeka Onumajuru, Chief of Defence Operations, said the deradicalisation process takes about a year…
Former military president Ibrahim Babangida has revealed that he proposed an interim government led by MKO Abiola following the annulment of the 1993 presidential election, but Abiola rejected the offer. In his newly launched autobiography, A Journey in Service, Babangida detailed his attempts to resolve the political crisis, including meetings with Abiola through traditional leaders….
The Rivers State Police Command has a new helmsman, in person of CP Olugbenga Adepoju Adewole, psc,mnips. with unique crime fighting strategies. He is a seasoned Police Officer with exceptional service records and great wealth of experience in modern policing. He assumed office on 24th December, 2024 as the 47th Commissioner of Police, Rivers State…
Iranian authorities arrested a female student on Saturday after she staged a solo protest against harassment by stripping to her underwear outside her university, reports said. The woman, who has not been identified, had been harassed inside Tehran’s prestigious Islamic Azad University by members of the Basij paramilitary force who ripped her headscarf and clothes,…
A Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Maryam Sabo on Friday, jailed one Shamsu Adamu to 14 years imprisonment with sundry work in a correctional centre for defiling girl. The convict, Adamu, an adult resident of Kunture in Ungogo Local Government Area, was found guilty of rape contrary to section 283 of the…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he will sign an executive order to make new Attorney General Pam Bondi the head of a task force “to eradicate anti-Christian bias.” “The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the…
Two Ugandan TikTok users, 21-year-old David Ssengozi, known as Lucky Choice, and 28-year-old Isaiah Ssekagiri, have been remanded to Kigo prison on charges of insulting President Yoweri Museveni, First Lady Janet Museveni, and Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Magistrate Stella Maris Amabilis ordered their detention until 13 November, when they will make an initial court appearance, BBC…