By Dorothy Odeh Make-up artists and hairdressers in Mararaba are making brisk business as Muslims in their numbers troop to saloons for different services for the Eid-al-Adha celebrations. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who visited some make-up and hair saloons on Thursday observed that a lot of womenContinue Reading
By Polycarp Auta A non-Governmental Organisation, Sightsavers Nigeria, has donated some modern equipment worth millions of naira to the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) to improve eye care services. Presenting the equipment on Friday in Jos, Dr Sunday Isiyaku, Country Director of the organisation, said the gestureContinue Reading
By Funmilayo Adeyemi The outgone Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, has formerly handed over to the most senior officer in the commission, Mr Chris Maiyaki. At the handover ceremony in Abuja on Friday, Rasheed said he had secured necessary approval from President Bola Tinubu toContinue Reading
By Emmanuel Oloniruha A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Friday said it would resist planned increase in the price of petroleum being allegedly worked on by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN). The CSOs made their position known in a statement jointly signed byContinue Reading
By Salisu Sani-Idris A female pilgrim from the FCT, Hajiya Amina Yunusa, passed away in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Malam Abubakar Evuti, the Director of the Federal Capital Territory Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, confirmed the sad incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Makkah. ” With totalContinue Reading
Zacch Adedeji By Abigael Joshua TEXEM UK, a renowned UK leadership development organisation, has congratulated Zacch Adedeji on his appointment as Special Adviser to President Ahmed Tinubu on Revenue Matters. TEXEM’s Director, Special Projects Caroline Lucas who spoke on behalf of the company said Adedeji’s exceptional achievements andContinue Reading
By Sumaila Ogbaje The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, has said that he left the Nigeria Armed Forces bigger, stronger and more capable to deliver on its constitutional mandate. Irabor stated this in his valedictory speech during the pulling out parade organisedContinue Reading
By Salisu Sani-Idris Alhaji Saidu Abdullahi, a member of the House of Representatives says the National Assembly will engage the appropriate Saudi Arabian authorities to provide improved services to Nigerian pilgrims in 2024. Abdullahi, who represents Gbako/ Bida/Katcha Federal Constituency of Niger, made this known at an interactive session withContinue Reading
By Salisu Sani-Idris Gov. Umar Bago has expressed his dissatisfaction over inadequate tents and poor facilities at the Niger pilgrims camp in Mina, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Bago, who stated this while addressing newsman shortly after inspecting the tents for Niger State pilgrims tent. He threatened to report theContinue Reading
By Salisu Sani-Idris Gov. Umar Bago of Niger has promised to build a first-class Hajj transit camp for the state pilgrims to ease their movement to Saudi Arabia. Bago made the promise in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Muna, an outskirts of the holy cityContinue Reading
