BY JAMES AKINOLA Four persons have been killed by assailants in Gudum Village of Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. The attack according to accounts from residents of the village occurred on sunday night. The target of the attackers was the ward head of the village whose residence wasContinue Reading
Victor Osimhen has been crowned the 2023 African Footballer of the Year in a momentous event that solidified his status as one of the best players in the world. Osimhen saw off competition from Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi and Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah. Monday’s award capped off a sterling year forContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has made valid clarifications to the Senate Committee on Public Accounts on the debt sum of N1 billion, which the committee said was not clarified in the report of the Auditor General of the Federation. Mr. Mohammed Bello-Koko, the ,Managing Director of NPAContinue Reading
CBN Governor, Yemi Cardoso BY GODWIN OBI The manufacturing sector suffered a 400 percent increase in net foreign exchange loss to N466 billion in nine months ending September, reflecting the severe impact of the foreign exchange (Forex) market regime. Sector operators said the current forex situation has compounded the pressures emanatingContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI West African leaders meet on Sunday for talks with the region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts. After coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger since 2020, the Economic Community of West African StatesContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The leadership of the 10th Senate has donated 109 million naira to victims of mistaken army air strike at Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna Stat The Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, who announced the donation when he led other principal officersContinue Reading
Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, OFR and the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogala during a visit by the NIMASA DG to the Naval headquarters in Abuja BY GODWIN OBI The DG NIMASA Dr Bashir Jamoh OFR paid a working visitContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu says her nomination as a minister was an answer to her late last year prayer at Shiloh 2022. Shiloh, a yearly event by the Living Faith Church better known as Winners’ Chapel, attracts millions of Christian faithfulContinue Reading
*Lists Enugu as hot zone BY ADOLPHUS DURU The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has identified land scam and cybercrime as the challenges bedeviling the South-East. The anti-graft agency pinpointed Enugu State as a land scam hot zone, saying most of the matters it treats in the state botherContinue Reading
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) says it discovered over 4,800 illegal connections on oil pipelines in the country in what is a grim picture of the country’s major income earner. “We have over 4,800 illegal connections on our pipelines. That means in some lines, within 100 kilometres ofContinue Reading