The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay the oil communities in Ibeno LGA of Akwa Ibom a cumulative damages of 81.9 billion over oil spillage. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment debt, ordered that the...
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A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Monday remanded an estate agent, Chidi Nwaya, who allegedly obtained N28 million under false pretences. Justice Modupe Nicol- Clay ordered that the estate agent should be kept at acorrectional centre. The defendant is standing trial on a three-count...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it arrested 2,180 drug traffickers and seized over two million kilogrammes of assorted illicit drugs in five months. The Chairman of NDLEA, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, disclosed this while addressing newsmen to mark the International World Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking...
The United States on Monday reiterated its readiness to hold talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme without any preconditions. “We continue to hope that North Korea will respond positively to our outreach and offer to meet anywhere, anytime without preconditions,’’ U.S. special envoy Sung Kim said. Negotiations between Washington...
Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have decried the increase in the prices of tomato in the market. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that the price of the product had increased by nearly 50 per cent in the last two weeks. They...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Kwara State Governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq on Monday presented the letter of appointment to Oba Ibrahim Alebiosu, the new Olupo of Ajase-Ipo in Irepodun Local Government Area of the State. While speaking during the presentation ceremony in Ilorin, the Commissioner of Local Government,...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – A Federal lawmaker representing Nasarawa West Senatorial Zone, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has distributed no fewer than 315 water pumping machines to farmers in the state, which are part of the efforts to improve agricultural activities among farmers in rural communities The presentation ceremony which...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is set to register, certify premises of chemical manufacturers in order to boost the nation’s economy. It has also agreed with manufacturers of chemical products in Nigeria to explore the international market with chemical products to enhance the...
Drone image shows aftermath of a deadly crash of 18 vehicles on interstate 65 in Butler County, Alabama, on Sunday June 20, 2021, leaving 10 dead – 9 children and one adult. Nine children and an adult were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on an Alabama highway as...
A mineworker who had a habit of feeding crocodiles was killed by the reptiles on Indonesia’s Belitung island, an official said on Monday. Juperi Ahmad, 53, went missing on Friday while manning a sluice gate in a lake at the mining site in Dendang district, said Danu Wahyudi, the...
The management of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, has announced June 21 as the resumption date for its 2020/2021 academic session. Mr Ade Adeyemi-Adejolu, the Institution’s Director, Protocol, Information and Public Relations, who made the announcement in a statement on Sunday, said this was contained in a circular issued by...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL,Sokoto – Sokoto State Governor, Amimu Waziri Tambuwal has said the unity of Nigeria is very crucial hence the call on all and sundry to continue to work towards sustaining a country that works for all irrespective of region, religion, political inclination and ethnicity. Gov. Tambuwal, who...
Throughout the 2021 economic recovery, American Petroleum Institute’s (API) data have demonstrated the intertwined relationship between the nation’s recovering economy and affordable, reliable energy. Leading economic indicators have continued to rise, and along with them, so has oil demand – even as global oil drilling and investment have fallen....
Ethiopians citizens are voting in key elections amid rising tensions and a bloody conflict in the northern Tigray region. This pandemic-delayed poll is Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first electoral test since coming to power in 2018. He hopes to secure a popular mandate by winning a majority of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Nigerian Army troops of Sector 2 Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI in conjunction with the Air Task Force on Sunday 20 June 2021 inflicted heavy casualty on Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) Terrorists groups who were camping...
Nigeria is likely to make N462bn the electronic money transfer levy as a source of stable revenue in 2021, The World Bank has projected. EMT levy is a singular charge of N50 on every transfer of money deposited in any financial institution on any type of account on sums...
By BASSEY EFIONG, Uyo – The Transaction Advisor/Consultants to the IDSP and Free Trade Zone project has said that the relocation of the $4.6 billion Ibom Deep Sea Port (IDSP) from Okposo to Ibeno is not political but based on professional and engineering decisions, says Felak Concepts Ltd. In...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has expressed shock over deaths and bodily harms occasioned by the reported misuse of firearm by a police operative in Enugu. The governor was reacting to the killing of five persons dead and four critically injured in Sunday’s...
Qatar authority has said it would only allowed vaccinated fans to attend the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which it is set to host. “By the time of the World Cup, most countries in the world would have vaccinated their citizens,” Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdul...