THE Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau on Thursday said it had released a total of 272 safety recommendations and 82 accident reports of air crashes and various incidents recorded in the Nigerian airspace since inception. The Director-General, NSIB, Akin Olateru, disclosed while briefing newsmen in Abuja. Olateru said that this year alone, seven reports and 30 safety recommendations have been released so far by the bureau. He said 191 out of the total safety recommendations and 63 out of the total accident reports were done by the current administration from 2017 till date. Olateru noted that the released reports were essential to…
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A 13-year-old Nigerian girl from Kaduna State, Nasara James Dabo, has sparkled like a million stars in the International Mathematics Olympiad. Miss Nasara James Dabo amazingly solved 34 mathematics questions within a space of 172 seconds to emerge top in the competition. The extremely gifted girl is a student of Ideal International College, Narayi Kaduna state, and she was awarded a gold medal. Arewa Agenda gathered that the young prodigy finished the contest, gathering a total score of 145 points, solving 34 Mathematical questions in 172 seconds (less than 3 minutes). The record added a feather to her cap, as…
ELDER statesman, Tanko Yakasai on Thursday cautioned the emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farooq Umar to resist being used to destroy healthy political systems in Nigeria by reinventing tribal politics. Yakasai OFR in a signed statement titled “MY REACTION TO EMIR OF DAURA’S CODED CAMPAIGN MESSAGE FOR PDP” that was made available to INDEPENDENT in Kano, noted that the unwholesome strategy designed by the defunct Northern Progressives Elements (NPC) to hoodwinked gullible Arewa public has no place in Nigeria politics today. The elder statesman alleged that comment by former minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Sani Zango Daura that urged Northerners to…
A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Kano has dismissed a case filed by Jaafar Sani Bello, who is challenging Muhammad Sani Abacha as legally recognized member of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). In an originating summon, Sani Bello alleged that Abacha did not follow the procedure to register his membership at Local Government and ward levels respectively. In his judgement via Zoom,on Wednesday, Justice A.M Liman disagreed with Jafar Sani Bello, upheld that there was a waiver from the National level of PDP, stating that the respondent submitted the waiver to the court as exhibit. The presiding Judge also said the…
LESS than 24 hours after the kidnap of 45 residents in Aku Community, bandits have again abducted 16 people in another attack on Angwan Pa community in the same Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Monday at about 7:30 pm. News Point Nigeria learnt that the bandits invaded the community at about 7:30 pm and surrounded the entire village. According to him, 53 people were abducted but 37 of them escaped and returned home on Tuesday morning, leaving 16 others in captivity. He said small villages that are sparsely populated are…
THE Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has tasked security agencies to stop marketers from hoarding petrol to hike prices above the government rates. President of the union, Comrade Festus Osifo, stated this at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the union in Abuja. He said, “The persistent shortages of petrol has become a source of pain to the Nigerian people as the current shortages are being perpetuated by players in the downstream sector in order to hike the price far above the government approved threshold.” Osifo also said marketers have no right to hike…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has sent a message of condolence to former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’Abba, who lost his mother, Hajiya Rabi Umar Na’Abba. The deceased was a sibling of the late Bashir Usman Tofa, a political associate of the President. In the condolence message, President Buhari described the death of a mother as a painful experience and prayed to Allah to console the former speaker and the larger Na’Abba family.
BANDITS have killed no fewer than four farmers and abducted over 100 others including women and children from 14 communities in Mashegu and Rafi local government areas of Niger State in the last three weeks. The bandits imposed N3 million tax on each of the communities as a condition to stop kidnapping them and to allow them to harvest their farm produce, only one of the communities had been able to pay. The bandits are said to be also stealing food they already harvested. News Point Nigeria gathered that more than half of the victims were kidnapped while harvesting maize,…
TROOPS of the Nigerian Army in a joint military operation involving air and ground components have killed three Boko Haram commanders including Khaids Abbah Tukur, Maimusari and Bakura Jega and at least a 100 more terrorists in Borno on Tuesday. This was made known when the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Faruq Yahaya, and his counterpart, the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, arrived in Maiduguri on Sunday morning to celebrate the Christmas with frontline troops. According to BBC Hausa, a statement signed by Air Commodore, Edward Gabkwet said, a credible defence intelligence source said…
Fidelity Bank, First Bank and First City Monument Bank (FCMB) are the first three banks leading as the best-performing commercial banks in Nigeria in the Q3 of 2022. An analysis of the banks’ equity and financials shows that the 13 banks made the sum of N298.84 billion as profit before tax between July and September of 2022, showing an increase of 29.9 per cent compared to N228.54 billion recorded the year before. The banks remained strong despite solid headwinds, in which Nigeria’s GDP is slowing to 2.25 per cent from 3.54 per cent in the previous quarter and 4.03 per…
THE Kaduna Police Command says its operatives have arrested a notorious gunrunner in the state. The police spokesman in the state, Deputy Superintendent Mohammad Jalige, who disclosed this on Sunday, December 25, identified the notorious bandit as 33-year-old Bilyaminu Saidu of Shuwaki village, Bakori local government area of Katsina State. Jalige said the police recovered four AK47 rifles, 344 rounds of ammunition, 10 telephones, an operational motorcycle and charms from Saidu. He said, “On December 23, at about 17.30 hours, operatives attached to Tudun Wada, Zaria, while on surveillance patrol at Basawa area of Zaria metropolitan, intercepted two men on…