The Imo Police Command said it arrested 56 suspects for various criminal offences, including armed robbery, kidnapping, child trafficking, cultism, murder and terrorism between January and June. The Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde, said this at the command’s headquarters in Owerri, while briefing newsmen on the recent exploits by...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Troops of 3 Division Nigerian Army deployed to quell the crisis in Mangu LGA of Plateau has killed three bandits in the area. This is according to a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu....
Nigeria on Wednesday, redeemed a 500 million dollars 10-year tenor Eurobond with the due date of July 12, 2023. A statement by the Debt Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday, said that the Eurobond was issued in July 2013 as part of a dual-tranche one billion dollars Eurobond for a...
The construction firm handling the renovation of the National Assembly Complex, Visible Construction Ltd., has assured users of the complex of stoppage of leaking points soon. Project Engineer, Mr Tajudeen Olanipekun gave the assurance on Wednesday while reacting to report made by some bloggers on rain water leakages at...
The Police Command in Osun has arrested a 17-year-old girl who allegedly lured her victim from Lagos to Osun, through the social media. The Command Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, made this known on Tuesday in Osogbo. Opalola said the victim was lured to Ikire in Irewole Local Government Area...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (lNEC) on Wednesday objected the adoption of the deposition made by one of its staff who appeared as witness before the Governorship Election Petition Court in Kaduna. The witness, Mr Bonet Gwaza, a Senior System Analyst with INEC, had on July 11 presented some...
There exists no ambiguity to the fact that Nigeria is a Federal state with three tiers of government, which consists of the Federal Government at the centre, 36 federating states and 774 Local Government Areas. What is however newsy is that like its global counterparts, the Federal system currently...
Thunder strike has reportedly killed three suspected kidnappers in the agrarian Oro Ago community in the Ifelodun LGA of Kwara State.t
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Vice President, Sen. Kashim Shettima has solicited more support from commercial banks and government-owned Development Finance Institutions for key government interventions for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The Vice President stated this today when he received some chief executives of Development...
A financial expert, Prof. Uche Uwaleke, has described as commendable, President Bola Tinubu’s request for legislative approval of N500 billion as palliatives to cushion removal of petrol subsidy. Uwaleke, a Professor of Capital Market at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, said this in an interview with the News Agency...
Brig.-Gen. Obinna Onubogu, on Wednesday assumed duty as the 21st Commandant of Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peacekeeping Centre (MLAILPKC) Jaji, Kaduna State. Onubogu took over from Maj.-Gen. Emmanuel Undaindeye who was appointed by President Bola Tinubu as Chief of Defence intelligence. In his address before the handover, Undaindeye thanked...
Olu Verheijen, the Special Adviser to the President on Energy, said on Wednesday that the development of gas was a priority for the President Bola Tinubu administration. Verheijen said this at the opening of the “Decade of Gas” secretariat in Abuja. “It has been a long journey with gas...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday in Abuja assured Nigerians that the framework for palliatives to remedy the effects of fuel subsidy removal is being worked out, explaining that the decision to phase out the subsidy was taken in the best interest of the...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has said that literary giant and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, remains Nigeria’s pride, as he clocks 89 years. Soyinka, a 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature winner and the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category, clocks 89 on Thursday, July...
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By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The veteran Nollywood actress, Cynthia Okereke, has reportedly died. The actress died on Wednesday morning from an undisclosed ailment. Her death was announced by her colleague, Joseph Okechukwu, in a post on his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday. Sharing a photo of...
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, met with the class of 1999 Governors at the council chamber of the Aso Villa, Abuja. The ex-governors were at the State House to identify with Tinubu, who was the governor of Lagos State from May 1999 to 2007, and to express solidarity...
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, met with the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulkarim Chukkol, at the Aso Villa in Abuja. Wednesday’s meeting occurred about four weeks after the President suspended Abdulrasheed Bawa indefinitely as the anti-graft agency boss on June 14, 2023....
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Wednesday, impounded 16 vehicles, four cows and arrested seven beggars in Abuja. The vehicles, beggars and the cows were seized during the enforcement of zero tolerance to unapproved motor parks and herding of cows in restricted areas. The FCTA officials impounded 16...