VIDEO: Sultan Announces End If Ramadan Fasting — Sunday Is Eid-el-Fitri GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, is scheduled to announce the end of 2025 Ramadan soon, as a new moon has been sighted. In a broadcast on Saturday, the Sultan, who is president of the Supreme Council for Islamic…
The Jigawa State Commissioner for Special Duties, Auwalu Danladi Sankara, has returned N301 million unspent funds to the state treasury following the conclusion of the 2025 Ramadan feeding programme. The refund was made public during a state executive council meeting chaired by Governor Malam Umar Namadi. The commendable act followed the allocation of N4.8 billion…
Suspected terrorists, locally dubbed as bandits, have abducted a newly wedded bride and four bridesmaids in the Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The tragic incident happened on Saturday at Kwaren Gamba, near Kuka Teke, a village plagued by repeated attacks from armed groups linked to notorious bandits leader, Bello Turji. Eyewitnesses reported…
Gunmen have shot and macheted to death a politician, Oluwatosin Onamade, in the Ijede area of Ikorodu, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Onamade, until his death, was an aspirant for the chairmanship position of Ijede Local Council Development Area under the banner of the All Progressives Congress. His distraught brother, Oluwafemi Onamade, who managed…
The Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘B’ of the Nigeria Customs Service, Kaduna, has intensified its clampdown on smuggling with the interception of 250 bags of foreign parboiled rice cunningly concealed in a fuel tanker. The Unit also handed over seized pharmaceutical products and hazardous chemicals to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and…
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has officially signed the Lagos Electricity Bill into law. The ceremony which was carried out at Lagos House Alausa Ikeja, had in attendance the state deputy governor Kadri Hamzat, members of the State assembly, as well as the state executive council members. Governor Sanwo-Olu commended the state House of Assembly…
President Bola Tinubu has declared that governors under the All Progressives Congress (APC) remain leaders of the party in their respective states. Tinubu made the declaration on Saturday at the official reception of Gov. Agbu Kefas into the APC held in Jalingo. Represented by Sen. Kashim Shettima, Vice President, Tinubu announced that Gov. Kefas has…
The newly elected chairmen of the 30 local government councils in Osun State have received their Certificates of Return. On Saturday, the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) swept all the chairmanship and councillorship positions in the South-Western state. A day after, the commission presented the winners with their…
Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has officially resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Malami announced his defection to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Tuesday, July 2, 2025, citing the party’s alignment with a new coalition aimed at rescuing Nigeria from what he described as…
The federal government has condemned Israel’s “pre-emptive” strike on Iran which triggered an escalation of hostilities between the two countries. On Friday, Israel launched a fusillade of attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and military leadership. Israeli defence officials said the missiles killed members of Iran’s general staff, including Hossein Salami, commander-in chief of Iran’s Islamic…
