The Police in Lagos, in a joint operation with the Edo State Command, has nabbed the mastermind behind the syndicate group, comprising over ten fraud groups impersonating the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), under the name “CBN Helping Hands Investment Scheme,” to defraud unsuspecting members of the public. The...
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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested no fewer than 654 suspected criminals for armed robbery, arson, cultism, and other vices, while 557 of the suspects have already been arraigned in a law court to answer for their crimes. This disclosure was contained in the monthly Police Activity Report...
Scientists have identified Earth’s smallest known reptile, warning at the same time that sustained destruction of forests in northern Madagascar threatens its survival. Tiny enough to perch comfortably on a fingertip, the ultra-compact chameleon — dubbed Brookesia nana — has the same proportions and world-weary expression as its larger...
The Lagos State Police Command has assured motorists of adequate security, along the designated diversions, as the third mainland bridge closed from 12 midnight to 7 p.m on Saturday. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, gave the assurance in a statement he issued on Friday. Adejobi said...
Public primary school teachers and head teachers in Edo, under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Teacher (NUT), on Friday, suspended their three-week old industrial action with a call on the state government to urgently meet their demands. The union’s decision to suspend the action was contained in...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Friday, demolished a two storey building located on plot 4545 at SIL Estate, Mbora District, Abuja, for contravening the land use act and for being built on a plot designated as an open area. Addressing newsmen after the demolition, on behalf of...
The Oyo State Government has approved the establishment of a Centre of Excellence that would provide training and certificates, in energy and solid minerals, Mr Taiwo Adisa, Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Seyi Makinde, said in a statement on Friday, in Ibadan. He said that the State Executive Council...
Hundreds of people have rallied in Myanmar’s main city, Yangon, to protest against this week’s military coup. “Military dictator, fail, fail; Democracy, win, win,” chanted the crowd, the largest protest seen since the military took over. They called for release of the elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and...
Barcelona captain Lionel Messi would not make a decision over his future until after the March 7 presidential election. Off contract in June, Messi is a confirmed target for Manchester City and PSG this summer. And after the leaking of contract details last week, it was suggested Messi had...
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, has ordered that a 44-year-old man, Mohammed Usman, who allegedly trafficked 12 girls to Libya, be remanded in a correctional centre. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), charged Usman, who resides in Walambe Quarters of Nasarawa Local...
The Kano State Government says it has arrested 500 beggars for allegedly violating the law that bans street begging in the state. The State’s Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr Zahra’u Muhammad-Umar, made the disclosure while repatriating the beggars in Kano on Friday. Dr. Muhammad-Umar said that...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says three quarters of all COVID-19 vaccinations were only in 10 countries, accounting for almost 60 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, who revealed this during a regular press briefing on COVID-19, in Geneva, on Friday,...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige says any strike by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) would be illegal and might prompt the ministry to take legal actions. Dr Ngige while speaking to State House correspondents...
The Federal Government has lifted the suspension placed on Emirates Airlines operations in Nigeria. Notice of the permit to resume operations was contained in a communique put out late on Friday by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). In its statement, the NCAA’s Director-General, Capt. Musa Nuhu said the...
The United States Government says it was now backing Nigeria’s candidate for the top job at the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Recalled that The US, under the administration of Donald Trump, had favoured South Korea’s Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee. But Ms Myung-hee, earlier on Friday, announced that she...
The Kwara Beach Soccer Association says its plans to organise a maiden edition of a female U-17 Beach Soccer Tournament in Ilorin, the state capital, had reached advanced stages, having received approval from the Women’s Development Committee of the African Beach Soccer Union, South Africa. Chairman of the Local...
Public primary school heads and teachers in Edo, under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Teacher (NUT), has suspended their three weeks industrial action over wage issues. The union suspended the strike after an emergency State Wing Executive Council (SWEC) meeting in Benin on Friday. The News Agency...
A group of eminent leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara has rejected the Membership Registration Committee sent to the state by the National Secretariat of the party. The leaders, operating under the aegis of APC Integrity Group, declared that the seven-member committee headed by Sen. John...
Mr Ahmed Nagode, Director-General, National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN), says Nigeria and France are collaborating to make the institute world class. Nagode told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday that the bilateral agreement was signed in 2016 by the two countries to improve vocational...
The Oyo State Government has reiterated its commitment to putting an end to cancer by organising free breast and cervical cancer screening programme for women of reproductive age in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Bashir Bello, gave the reassurance on Thursday at a sensitisation programme organised...