The Department of State Services has released two more aides of Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo, The PUNCH has learnt. The secret police released Tajudeen Irinloye and Uthman Adelabu on Friday after over 60 days. The detainees’ lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, confirmed their release to our correspondent. The PUNCH had reported on August 30, 2021, that […]
Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says members of the national assembly who vote to support the legalisation of cannabis cannot dare return to their constituencies. The house of representatives had, in May 2021, began moves to legalise cannabis to take advantage of its economic benefits. Speaking on Friday after […]
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Thursday disclosed that a total of 5,890 terrorists comprising foot soldiers and commanders of the dreaded Boko Haram Sect and the Islamic of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have so far surrendered with their families to the troops in the North East Zone in the last three weeks. Director Defence Media […]
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has said the Forensic Audit Report of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) indicated that there are over 13,000 abandoned projects within the coastal region. Senator Akpabio disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday when he submitted the report to President Muhammadu Buhari through the Attorney General […]
Femi Adesina, media adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, says the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) declared a net profit in 2020 because the president “did not use it as his personal Automated Teller Machine (ATM)”. Last week, Buhari, who doubles as minister for petroleum resources, announced that the NNPC recorded N287 billion profit after tax […]
Elder statesmen and a member of the Board of Trustees of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, says he is quitting partisan politics. The elder statesman said this in Owerri, Imo State capital, while addressing journalists on the occasion of his 79th birthday. He said he is dedicating his life to the service of […]
The court of appeal in Abuja has declared Valentine Ozigbo as the validly nominated candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the forthcoming Anambra state governorship election. A three-member panel, led by Monica Dongban-Mensem, president of the court of appeal, unanimously upheld the two appeals filed by Ozigbo and the PDP (CA/AW/223/2021 and CA/AW/234/2021). […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has labelled the Lekki area of Lagos State as the hotbed of cybercrime in Nigeria. The anti-graft agency said this in a post titled, ‘Lekki now hotbed of cybercrime – EFCC’, on its Facebook page on Friday. Data released by the agency showed that 402 suspects were arrested in […]
A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has frozen assets and funds worth N19.17bn allegedly kept in 24 banks by a convicted former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB, Francis Atuche. Justice Lateefat Okunnu made the order sequel to an August 17 application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a suit between […]
Boma has said he’s the reason Angel is still in the House. Boma, in a conversation with Cross, said that Angel would have been evicted from the show if not for him. According to him, if he had confirmed something that Angel was alleged to have done, she would have been evicted from the House. […]
