Beyond the Headlines
Iran’s government has executed two men after being convicted of killing a member of the paramilitary Basij force during protests that had rocked the Arab country. Iran condemned the two protesters – Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini for killing Ruhollah Ajamian, a paramilitary officer, during a demonstration to mark the 40th day since […]
The timely intervention by operatives of the Plateau State Police Command on Friday night prevented suspected kidnappers from abducting the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Yakubu Sanda. In a statement signed by Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Alfred Alabo, the incident occurred on the Speaker’s arrival at his residence in Federal […]
Eight state house of assembly candidates of the Labour Party (LP) in Jigawa are said to have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement on Friday, Habibu Nuhu Kila, media adviser of Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, governor of Jigawa, said his principal formally received the defectors into the party at a meeting […]
A 40-year old man, Nuhu Usman, of Dangarga Village in Burra District of Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, has allegedly shot and killed one of his two wives with a dane gun. The Police Public Relations Officer of Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakil, who said this in a media statement made available […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered Deposit Money Banks not to pay customers making over-the-counter withdrawals of new naira notes again. Instead, the apex bank directed the banks to load their Automated Teller Machines with only new notes to ensure that the currency circulates across the nation ahead of the January 32, 2023 […]
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested one Issa Naigheti for allegedly kidnapping his father and collecting a ransom of N2.5m. Ajayi Okasanmi, spokesman of the command, who disclosed this said the suspect was arrested around Kambi area of Ilorin. He said officers attached to the anti-kidnapping team of the Kwara police command arrested […]
The acting Director General (DG) of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Christy Ubah, has appealed that the allowances of corps members who will serve as ad hoc staff of inec in the forthcoming elections be improved due to the economic hardship in the country. Speaking Friday in Abuja when INEC’s Chairman, Prof […]
A chief magistrate court in Wuse zone 6, federal capital territory (FCT), has ordered the arrest of Umo Eno, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom state. Eno, who is the preferred candidate of Udom Emmanuel, governor of Akwa Ibom, won the party’s primary held in May 2022. He secured […]
The federal government has sacked over 500 “illegal staff” of the ministry of labour and employment, TheCable can report. They were said to have been employed into the ministry weeks before the 2019 general election — but without a waiver from the office of the head of the civil service of the federation. According […]
Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to the president, says the sterling performance of Buba Marwa as the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) shows Nigeria is redeemable. Adesina, in his weekly opinion article published on Friday, said Marwa’s seizures of illicit drugs and arrests of drug barons have […]
