The Southern Governors Forum (SGF) has extended its condolences to the Governor of Katsina State, Alhaji Dikko Radda, over the passing of his mother, Hajiya Safara’u Barebari. The forum’s condolence was conveyed in a statement signed by its chairman, Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, and released to newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday. The forum…
The remains of the mother of Gov. Dikko Radda, Hajiya Sarafa’u, have been laid to rest in his home town, Radda in Charanchi Local Government Ares. She died in the early hours of Sunday in Abuja at the age of 93 after an illness. The funeral prayer was led the Katsina Chief Imam Gambo Mustapha,…
A mother and her six-year-old child died in a house fire in Sydney’s south-west on Wednesday morning, authorities in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) said. Emergency services were called to the single storey house in Heckenberg at 12:40 a.m. on Wednesday (1330 GMT Tuesday), NSW Police said in a statement. Fire and…
A middle-aged woman and her two children have lost their lives in a fire incident which occurred on Sunday night in Ondo State. The fire incident happened at Rainbow Street, Onipakala Junction, off Adeyemi Road, Ondo, in Ondo West Local Government Area of the state. A family source, speaking under anonymity, told the News Agency…
The sentencing of a twelve-year-old rioter in Britain has been postponed because his mother has flown to Ibiza on holiday. The boy appeared before a judge in a Manchester youth court for his involvement in the unrest that erupted across the UK following the tragic killing of three young girls in Southport at the end…
