Tinubu Sacks NIMASA, NPA Executive Directors, Appoints Fresh Hands
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has appointed some executive directors for the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Both agencies are under the Federal Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy. For the Nigerian Ports Authority, Ms. Vivian C. Richard Edet wasContinue Reading
Troops kill 10 terrorists, rescue 9 kidnap victims in Katsina, Zamfara
ADA EZEH Gusau—The troops of the Joint Task Force North West Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) have neutralised 10 terrorists, rescued nine kidnap victims, and recovered arms and ammunition including operational motorcycle and communication gadgets in Katsina and Zamfara states. The Force Information Officer, Operation Hadarin Daji, Captain Ibrahim Yahaya, saidContinue Reading
Uproar as impostors exposed in Army recruitment exercise
BY GODWIN OBI, CHIGOZIE EZEH, JAMES AKINOLA, ADOLPHUS DURU/ EFE MODESTUS Anger was the word, yesterday, as the Nigerian Army, NA; Lagos State Government; Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area; former Minister of Communications, Maj. Gen. Tajudeen Olanrewaju, retd; and other stakeholders reacted to a viral video of some northerners seeking recruitmentContinue Reading
Tinubu’s men happy over N100b allocation to school feeding programme
BY JAMES AKINOLA Yetunde Adeniji, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on School feeding has extoll his principal, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the allocation of N100 billion on School Feeding Programme in the 2024 budget. In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, Adeniji notedContinue Reading
Gunmen kidnap 8 people in Rivers
BY GODWIN OBI Suspected Fulani herdsmen have abducted eight persons in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. They struck around the Port Harcourt International Airport Roundabout, Omagwa and whisked away their victims. The incident happened on Tuesday evening along the Obiri-Ikwerre-Airport Road. It was gathered that the criminals had blocked the leftContinue Reading
How Tantita fulfilled a promise of 3-bed Room Flat, Self Contained Apartment to One DJagbo Bassist
BY AMBROSE OBIOMA OKEHI It was like a dream come true for a beneficiary of a 3-Bed room flat, a Self Contained apartment, Mr. Simeon DJagbo Bassist, as Chief Kestin Pondi, the Managing Director of Tantita Security Services Ltd recently fulfilled his promise. According to reliable sources, the Tantita MDContinue Reading
FG To Suspend Degree Certificates From Uganda, Kenya, Others
“We are not going to stop at just Benin and Togo,” Education Minister Tahir Mamman said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday. BY ADA EZEH Following the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo, the Federal Government has said the sanction wouldContinue Reading
Killings in Middle-Belt, threat to Nigeria’s existence — Clark, Adebanjo, Iwuanyanwu, others
BY GODWIN OBI, ADA EZEH AND ADOLPHUS DURU Leaders of thought, elder statesmen from four of the six geo-political zones of the country, under the aegis of Southern and Middle Leaders Forum, SMBLF, have written President Bola Tinubu, asking him to nip in the bud the incessant killings and wantonContinue Reading
Sanwo-Olu arrests soldier riding okada for driving against traffic
Screenshot BY GODWIN OBI Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, arrested a soldier and some commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as okada riders, for driving against traffic, along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway in the state. The governor arrested the suspects while returning from Lagos State University, Ojo where he went to commissionContinue Reading