The Police Command in Rivers has arrested a suspected leader of an unnamed cult group alleged to have been involved in numerous criminal activities across Rivers. SP Grace Iringe-Koko, the command’s spokesperson, disclosed this to journalists on Tuesday in Port Harcourt. According to Iringe-Koko, the suspect, identified as Innocent...
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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has suspended implementation of the 4 per cent charge on the Free On-Board (FOB) value of imports. The Spokesman of the service, Abdullahi Maiwada, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, the FOB charge essential to drive the...
The People Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) has described the purported suspension of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Sen. Adolphus Wabara, as unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect. The NWC, in a statement issued by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba on...
Reigning champions Real Madrid fell behind twice but fought back to claim a dramatic 3-2 win at Manchester City in the first leg of their clash in the Champions League last 16 play-offs. Jude Bellingham scored the winner in stoppage time to give Madrid an important advantage ahead of...
The New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) has said it would not take part in the forthcoming local government elections in Katsina State, scheduled for Feb. 15. The state secretary of the party, Alhaji Tijjani Zakari-Kafinsoli, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Katsina...
Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd. (SNEPCo) says the country can achieve its oil and gas production targets and drive development programmes by focusing on its deepwater resources. The company said that the country could achieve this by maintaining policies that encourage investment and enhance output in the...
The Senate through its Committee on Capital Market, on Tuesday, asked the Minister of Finance, Mr Wale Edun, to approve N10 billion special funding to finance literacy development in the capital market. Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Osita Izunaso, made the appeal when Edun and the Director-General, Securities and...
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, has signed the amended Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is contains in statement signed and made available to newsman in Abuja by Mr Tunde Moshood , the Special Adviser to...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said charges would now apply anytime customers use the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) of banks other than theirs. This was contained in a circular dated February 10, 2025, and addressed to all banks and financial institutions, the apex bank’s acting Director of...
Nigeria has been ranked 140th position out of 180 countries in the world on the 2024 corruption perceptions index, according to a report by Transparency International. The TI’s latest ranking released on Tuesday sees the continent’s most populous nation move up 5 spots when compared with 2023 ‘s report...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday ordered forfeiture to the Federal Government, of Sigma Golf Nig. Ltd. rights, title and interest in 6,250,000,000 units of the Keystone Bank Ltd. ordinary shares of N1.00 each. The court also ordered winding up of the company. The News Agency of Nigeria...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – Plateau State Police Command has arrested nine suspects in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an 11-year-old boy, Tasiu Abdullahi, in Jos North Local Government Area. The state Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Adesina, disclosed this on Tuesday at the Command’s headquarters in Jos....
A teacher accused of stabbing an 8-year-old student to death at an elementary school in the central city of Daejeon said she was “annoyed”after being excluded from a class, police said. “I got annoyed just three days after returning to work,” she was quoted as telling the police, after...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has directed security agencies to monitor the influx of people that could pose security threats into FCT. The Commissioner of Police in the FCT, Olatunji Disu, disclosed this while briefing journalists on the outcome of the FCT Security Committee...
Pope Francis sharply criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s mass deportations of migrants in an open letter on Tuesday to U.S. Catholic bishops. The head of around 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide described the crackdown on irregular immigration initiated by Trump as a “major crisis” for the United States. A nation’s...
The Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province on Tuesday appealed to Nigerians to be agents of hope in their activities by being “Good Samaritans” to one another. The bishops, in a communique issued at the end of their meeting in Ibadan, urged Nigerians to be driven by the words...
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has announced that the budget defense report for the N54.2 trillion 2025 budget will be presented to the Senate in plenary. He confirmed that members of the Committee on Appropriations will present the report either Wednesday or Thursday this week. Akpabio made this statement on...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged security agencies to tackle menace of vote buying during party primaries for the Nov. 8 Anambra governorship election. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made the call during the regular meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) on Tuesday...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – In continuation of their annual Corporate Social Responsibility, BUA Cement on Tuesday donated drugs and other medical consumables to 16 hospitals in Sokoto State. The drugs worth over 35 million naira were handed over to representatives of each of the 16 benefiting communities. Addressing...
Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPCL), Malam Mele Kyari, has reiterated the company’s commitment to strengthening collaboration with stakeholders in the oil and gas sector. He said this on Monday at the ongoing Sub-Saharan Africa International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (SAIPEC) in Lagos. The...