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January 31, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Commiserates With Innoson’s CEO Over Mother’s Death

President Muhamadu Buhari has Commiserated with the Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Group of Companies Limited, Innocent Chukwuma, over the passing away of his mother, Madam Martina Chukwuma, at the age of 101. The president, in a statement issued by his Spokesman,...

January 27, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Ex-Customs Boss, Hamman Ahmad

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed heartfelt condolences to the Ahmad family on the passing of the former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Hamman Ahmad. In a condolence message released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media an...

January 26, 2022 No Responses

Wife, Three Others Arrested Over Hotelier’s Death In Lagos

The Police in Lagos have arrested the wife of an hotel owner and three others after the wife was alleged to have stabbed her hotelier husband to death. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the wife of the...

January 22, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Murdered 5-Year-Old Hanifa

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the nation’s condolences to the family of the five-year-old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in Kano after nearly two months of fruitless search. The president, in a sta...

January 12, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Shonekan

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the news of the death of a great statesman and former Head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan. The president, in a statement by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Tuesday...

January 8, 2022 No Responses

Police Pledges To Rescue Kidnapped Retired Customs Officer

The Police Command in Kwara State on Friday pledged to do everything humanly possible to rescue a retired Customs officer, Mohammed Zarma, abducted in the state. The command Spokesman, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, in a statement explained that as part of...

January 5, 2022 No Responses

Customs Confirm One Death In Sokoto Checkpoint Accident

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Sokoto and Zamfara area commands, have confirmed the death of one person in a checkpoint accident which occurred at Asara village, Sokoto-Illela road. The command’s spokesman, Mr Balarabe Yusuf, in a statement on Tues...

January 4, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Bashir Tofa

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the passing of one-time Presidential Candidate in a two-horse race, Bashir Tofa, ”a politician of note, who was also a promoter of Islamic culture and civilization’.’ The president made his feel...

January 3, 2022 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Olubadan

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the government and people of Oyo State, the Royal Family, the Olubadan-in-council and the people of Ibadan on the passing of Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji. In a condolence message released by his....

December 31, 2021 No Responses

NUJ Visits Bonnie Iwuoha’s Widow, Children

The leadership of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos State Chapter, on Tuesday, visited the Surulere home of the former National President of the union, Mr. Bonnie Iwuoha, where they condoled with his widow and four children. Bonnie Iwuoha died.....

December 27, 2021 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Archbishop Desmond Tutu

President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africans and the global Christian body, particularly Anglican Communion, over passing of Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu at 90. The president’s condolence message was issue...