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Nigeria’s Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has shut down its headquarters in Port Harcourt after the reported death of its Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Chief Ibanga Etang. Etang was said to have died in the early hours of Thursday as he reportedly took ill last week and was taken to the Rivers State University […]
Continue ReadingCanadian rapper, Houdini has died at the age of 21 after he was shot in Toronto. The fast rising rapper was reportedly gunned down on Tuesday evening outside a hotel in the downtown area of the city. Houdini was one of three people taken to hospital with injuries but he was pronounced dead at 6:30 […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the redeployment of Edo, Ondo and Oyo State Commissioners of Police. According to reports, eight other CPs were also redeployed in various Commands and Formations, according to a press statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Frank Mba. The statement said, “The IGP has […]
Continue ReadingThe Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Nasarawa State, Bishop Joseph Masin has been kidnapped from his residence in Lafia, the state capital. He was kidnapped on Wednesday. This was disclosed to journalists by the former secretary of the association in the state, Mr Yohanna Samari. Yohanna Samari said: “Unknown gunmen stormed […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has written to Nigerian House of Representatives to request for the approval of fresh external borrowings totalling $5.513bn. In the letter which was read by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the plenary on Thursday, Buhari said the funds were for 2020 budget deficit, financing of critical projects, […]
Continue ReadingPresident of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina, has denied all the allegations of wrongdoing leveled against him by some staff of the bank. In January, some staff of the AFDB had accused Adesina of 20 breaches of the bank’s code of conduct, including “unethical conduct, private gain, an impediment to efficiency, preferential treatment, […]
Continue ReadingThe younger brother of member representing Ebonyi North-west in the state house of assembly, Victor Aleke, was found dead in his car boot along the Abakaliki/Afikpo expressway. It was gathered that the deceased, Engineer Samuel Aleke, reportedly left his house Saturday evening May 23 and was not seen until the next day when his corpse […]
Continue ReadingThe FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, has forfeited her May, 2020 salary to secure the immediate release of five inmates who could not pay for their fines at the Kuje Correctional Service. She made the donation while felicitating with the inmates as part of activities to celebrate this year’s Eid al-Fitr. Aliyu in […]
Continue ReadingOn Wednesday, February 14 1968, during the Nigerian Civil war, the leader of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria, Major-General Yakubu Gowon, inspected a helicopter seized from the Biafran Forces. The helicopter, a 5-seater Bristol Westland aircraft, landed at the then seat of power – Dodan Barracks in Lagos. The Nigerian Civil War was […]
Continue ReadingUnited States has demanded a fresh probe of the president of African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, over allegations leveled against him. According to Bloomberg, Adesina was accused by a group of unidentified whistleblowers of handing contracts to acquaintances and appointing relatives to strategic positions at the Abidjan-based lender. However, Le Monde, a French newspaper, reported that the petition […]
Continue ReadingThe comments of a parrot may be used in an upcoming rape and murder trial. Elizabeth Toledo, 46, was raped and then killed in the city of San Fernando, Argentina in December 2018. At the end of the month a police officer was guarding the crime scene when they heard a parrot say “Ay, no, […]
Continue ReadingSoutheast Nigeria Governors Forum has asked the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu to revert to their original agreement on community policing in the region. In a communique issued after a meeting on Sunday May 24, the Governors said the police chief did not stick to their initial agreement during his visit to the region. Chairman of the […]
Continue Reading86-year-old former Director General of the Imo Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), Mr. T.C. Okere has allegedly stabbed his wife to death. The deceased, 77, was a retiree of the Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo. The incident, it was learned, occurred Monday morning, in Imerienwe community, in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State. Details of the […]
Continue ReadingOfficers from the Imo State Police Command in Nigeria are on the trail of three brothers, Patrick Obieshieke, Chinonso Obieshieke and John Erieka for allegedly killing their blood brother, Remigius Obieshieke, over money realised from the burial of their late mother. Remigius was brutally murdered after a disagreement erupted on how the money realised from […]
Continue ReadingTaking a queue from lifestyle changes occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would be adopting more technological tools in discharging its mandate, disclosing of its resolve to pioneer electronic voting (e-voting) in the country by 2021. This was as the electoral umpire decried the rising cost of […]
Continue ReadingThis is a rare picture, said to be that of Lagosians boarding a commuter bus at Tinubu Terminus in 1943. This is exactly 77 years ago when many of us were not born. Looking at this picture, you’ll see that the spirit of rushing visited Lagos state long time ago. Up till this very moment, […]
Continue ReadingChieftain of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has alleged that Northern Muslim military officers imposed the current constitution on Nigerians. Chief Adebanjo argued that no other region contributed to the creation of the constitution before the North handed power over to former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999. The Afenifere chieftain made the […]
Continue ReadingCenters appear not to hold at the moment between Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), and the Minister of Communications & Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. In a recent interview with SaharaTV, Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa, accused the Minister of using armed men to chase members of staff of NIDCOM out of an office […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Chima for allegedly setting ablaze his elder sister, identified simply as Victoria, at their place of residence around Okokomaiko area of Ojo, in Lagos state, Nigeria. The siblings were assisting their mother, who was cooking in the kitchen, when trouble started between Victoria and Chima. […]
Continue ReadingAn Editor with one of the mainstream Nigerian newspapers, the New Telegraph Newspapers, Alhaji Abdulwaheed Bakare is dead. Alhaji Bakare, who is until his death, Editor, Saturday Telegraph died on Sunday in Lagos after a brief illness. Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and the Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN), in their separate […]
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