File image. At least five children and six adults have been feared dead as two wooden boats capsize in Rivers State. It was gathered that the two boats that were travelling to Bonny Island from Ngo in Andoni Local Government of the state capsized on Tuesday morning leaving a numberContinue Reading
… Nobody was abducted by bandits – Police BY CHIGOZIE EZEH The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the exchange of gunfire between terrorists and security operatives penultimate Sunday along Kaduna-Abuja highway. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer PPRO of the State Command, ASP Mansur Hassan, said sixContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court Abuja has fixed further hearing for March 4, 2024 in a fresh N1 billion suit filed by the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Federal Government and three others. The othersContinue Reading
BY ADOLPLPHUS DURU President Bola Tinubu has directed a major slash of travel delegations for all Federal Government official trips within and outside the country. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this on Tuesday during a press briefing at the State House in Abuja. HeContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, has expressed readiness to partner with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat for enhanced trade facilitation in the African Continent. The CGC made this known on Monday, 8 January 2024, when heContinue Reading
•Says debt burden’ll soon wreck economy Peter Obi BY CHIGOZIE EZEH LABOUR Party, LP, presidential candidate during the February 25, 2023 General Elections, Peter Obi, has kicked against what he described as Federal Government’s disturbing pattern of huge borrowing and profligate spending on non-essential procurements, warning that such pattern wouldContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday quizzed ex-Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, over an alleged laundering of N37.1 billion Farouq was still at the office of the EFCC as of 6pm on Monday as she wasContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI After days of sizzling outrage against the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, over a messy disbursement scandal, President Bola Tinubu announced the first suspension of a member of his 48-man cabinet on Monday, removing the 37-year-old from office with immediate effect. In a statementContinue Reading