The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has conveyed its deep condolences to the government and people of Enugu State following the tragedy that occurred in the state last week which involved school children. The tragedy which occurred around the Awgu area of the state claimed no […]
Minister of State, Power, Mr Goddy Jedy-Agba, has refuted imputations that he ordered the detention of the publisher of Power Steering Magazine, Mr Tom Ohia, by the police in Abuja. Crimefacts.News had reported how the Nigerian Police illegally detained publisher of Power Steering Magazine, Mr Tom Ohia in October last month which has sparked condemnation […]
The Lekki Concession Company, operators of the Lekki toll gate, has submitted video footage recorded by its surveillance camera on the night of October 20, 2020, when soldiers allegedly opened fire on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate. The Managing Director of LCC , Abayomi Omomuwa, submitted the video footage on Tuesday to the […]
The immediate past Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, has returned to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for the second round of interrogation . Fowler, who is also a former Chairman of the Lagos Inland Service, was on Monday quizzed by the EFCC in Lagos for over seven hours and was […]
The Oyo State House of Assembly has placed 13 council caretaker chairmen in the state on indefinite suspension. Their suspension was attributed to their “ non -compliance to the resolution of the House on submission of status of earthmoving equipment in their respective domains to the House as requested . ” The affected councils are […]
The Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shootings of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers on October 20, 2020 at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos has declined the request by the operators of the tollgate , Lekki Concession Company, to “ take back possession ” of the tollgate. The Chairman of the panel , retired Justice […]
Bashir Magashi, minister of defence, says the rescue operation carried out in Nigeria by United States special forces did not violate the nation’s sovereignty. The minister said the federal government granted the US military permission to carry out the operation last week in the north. He said this on Tuesday while addressing journalists after defending […]
After initial delays, the federal government and promoters of the Qua Iboe Power Plant (QIPP), a private generating company, have commenced negotiations over a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the 540MW project in Ibeno, Akwa Ibom state, TheCable reports. The agreement, if signed, will see the government commit to about $30 million monthly take-or-pay obligation […]
A trader, Mr. Ndukwe Ekekwe has recounted to the Lagos State Judicial Panel Investigating cases of alleged police brutality, how he was made a paraplegic by officers of the disbanded Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that wheelchair-bound Ekekwe told the nine-man panel on Tuesday that he was thrown […]
Gunmen kidnapped 11 teachers from a primary school in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region, the head of the Presbyterian Church said. Heavily armed assailants stormed the church-run school in the town of Kumbo in the country’s North-West Region on Tuesday, Reverend Samuel Fonki, the head of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, told dpa. “The administration is […]
