A 44-year-old man, David Eludi, who allegedly obtained the sum of N352,000 from a woman under false pretences, has been dragged before an Ojo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The defendant, said to be a pastor, was arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy, obtaining by false pretenses and...
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stern Nigeria Security Network (code named Amotekun Corps) in Osun, has arrested three suspects in connection with exhuming corpses from graves and removing body parts for rituals This is contained in a statement by Spokesperson of the Corps in Osun, Mr Adeniyi Brown, and made available to newsmen...
Afrobeat Nigerian artist, Daniel Anidugbe, a.k.a Kizz Daniel, has released two upbeat tempo singles titled ‘Twe Twe’ and ‘Too Busy to Be Bae’. Chief Executive Officer of Artmatazz Media, a media company to the superstar, Christian Agadibe, disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of...
The Federal Government on Tuesday said it plans to restructure the Transmission Company of Nigeria(TCN) to align with the Electricity Act 2023 and the industry demands. Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu said this in Abuja at the Ministerial Retreat on the Integrated National Electricity Policy and Strategic...
Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Tuesday in Abuja unveiled a bold vision for reforming Nigeria’s transportation sector. Shettima, represented by Special Adviser, General-Duties, to the President, Office of the Vice-President, Aliyu Modibbo, unveiled the blueprint at the 5th National Summit of Chartered Institute of Transport Administration (CIOTA). He said...
The Nigeria Navy has arrested three suspects over alleged falsification of its approval for shipment of 150,000 litres of suspected adulterated diesel in Rivers. Commodore Desmond Igbo, Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, disclosed this on Tuesday in Port Harcourt during the handover of the suspects to the...
By MARGARET TIZE, Abuja – Independent Capital – a visionary project finance firm, has blazed the trail in the country by championing green innovation and facilitating as well as supporting green innovative projects in Nigeria. This is coming on the heels of the plan by the Nigerian government to...
The Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Oil), Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, says Nigeria will meet and surpass the 2024 crude oil production budget benchmark of 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd). Lokpobiri said this at a stakeholder’s interactive session on Creating Value and Enabling Investments in Nigeria’s Oil and...
Afrobeat star, Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake, has topped the list of the most-searched artistes on Google in Nigeria in 2023. According to the list of 10 Most Searched Topics and Persons in Nigeria in 2023 released by Google, Asake’s song: “Lonely at the Top’’ also topped...
The trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, accused of the murder of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Micheal Ataga, on Tuesday, was again stalled due to the absence of a prosecution witness. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the case could not go on due to the ill...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, has deployed Commissioner of Police, (CP) Fayoade Adegoke to take over as new CP, Police Command in Lagos. The Force Secretary, AIG Olanrewaju Oladimeji, announced the redeployment in a statement issued on Tuesday. ...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tajudeen Lagbaja on Tuesday commissioned a block of classrooms in Zajiri area of Bolori II community of Maiduguri metropolis and a solar powered industrial Borehole at Jiddari Polo community of Maiduguri City. The...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A community based and development foundation, Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development on Tuesday in Maiduguri organized a one day intensive training workshop for community advocates on Transitional Justice in Borno State. The community stakeholders were drawn from Jere, Konduga, Mafa,...
The Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) is flexing muscles over 11 months of unpaid salaries. Its Chairman, Comrade Ade Arikawe, told a news conference on the school’s campus on Tuesday that members were no longer able to discharge...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has on Tuesday, sworn-in nine (9) out of the newly appointed Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs). Mahmood disclosed that the tenth REC-designate will be sworn-in next month on the expiry of the...
I featured on an Arise TV Program, last month, where I “advertised” myself as a gubernatorial aspirant in search of a godfather that will help me achieve my gubernatorial aspiration in Edo state, and make me the democratically elected governor of the state come 2024. My interviewer laughed...
No fewer than 10 persons died in an accident that occurred on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Tuesday. The Public Education Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, Mrs Florence Okpe, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta. She noted that the accident involved Iveco truck marked KRA...
Against the backdrop of the recent accidental military air strike at Tudun Biri village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has called on the Federal Government to provide adequate funding for the military and...
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has arrested no fewer than 522 human traffickers and their victims in 2023, the Comptroller General, Mrs Caroline Adepoju, has said. Adepoju, who made this known while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja on activities lined up to mark the International Migrants Day...
Some Vice-Chancellors, (V-C) Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other stakeholders on Tuesday expressed concern over the decline in the number of lecturers in the nation’s universities. The university education stakeholders bared their minds in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). President Bola Ahmed Tinubu...