BY GODWIN OBI President Bola Tinubu at a Ramadan dinner with members of the Federal judiciary in Abuja on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 President Bola Tinubu has declared that individuals involved in despicable crimes such as kidnapping must be treated as terrorist The President made the declaration on Tuesday atContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Veteran Nollywood actor, Amaechi Muonagor, has died after a prolonged illness, at the age of 62. This was disclosed by a social commentator, Morris Monye, via his X handle, on Sunday. Muonagor was said to have suffered kidney failure and was on dialysis. The sudden news ofContinue Reading
…Arrests 4 kingpins BY GODWIN OBI Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have in a special operation, weekend, disrupted criminal activities of a cocaine syndicate in Abuja, with the arrest of three leaders of the groupA statement by spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said: “A followContinue Reading
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, have hailed the release of the Lea Primary and Government Secondary School Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. On March 7, about 287 schoolchildren were kidnapped when theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Scores of schoolchildren abducted from Kuriga, Kaduna have been released, two weeks after they were taken away in what was one of Nigeria’s largest mass kidnapping in years. The students, about 287, were kidnapped when the gunmen on motorcycles rode through their school, taking them away inContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has commended Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, for repealing the law that allowed former governors and their deputies to collect pensions He admonished other state governors to emulate Otti to reduce the cost of governance. The former President spoke during a courtesy visitContinue Reading
The presidency believes patronage of made-in-Nigeria products is key to strengthening the naira and wants citizens to buy goods produced in the country to make that happen. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in a press briefing with the State House CorrespondentsContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has said that it plans to generate about N629.89 billion in revenue in 2024 while looking for a N200 billion loan from Afrexim Bank and the United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF) to address infrastructural deficits at the nation’s gateway. NPA Managing Director,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The presidency is optimistic about better days for the naira and is asking currency speculators to dump their cache of dollars. Nigeria’s naira currency has recently slid downwards against major currencies like the dollar, going for $1 to N1,500 in the parallel market. But the Central BankContinue Reading
Most of the passengers on board were in transit from Funtua LGA to Katsina LGA. BY GODWIN OBI Dozens of passengers are said to have been kidnapped in a broad daylight attack launched by some bandits in the Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. The incident occurred on ThursdayContinue Reading