Nigeria’s largest domestic airline, Air Peace, has expressed its willingness to evacuate Nigerians stranded in Sudan, free of charge. This is coming against the backdrop of the uprising currently ongoing in the North-East Africa country. The airline noted that Nigerian students and others stranded in the war racked nation needs our help. It would […]
About 60 civilians were killed in a village in northern Burkina Faso by men wearing military uniforms, the local prosecutor said late Sunday, announcing an investigation into the latest bloodshed in the insurgency-hit country. Landlocked and in the heart of West Africa’s Sahel, the country is one of the world’s most volatile and impoverished. […]
The Nigeria Police says the Inspector General of Police (IGP has ordered an investigative team to probe Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Hudu Yunusa-Ari’s role in the recently held supplementary Adamawa State governorship election. This comes after the commission’s appeal to the IGP seeking an investigation and possible prosecution of the Yunusa-Ari over allegations […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed plans to evacuate over 2,000 Nigerians in crisis-hit Sudan on Tuesday morning. “The truth is nobody has been evacuated yet. I just spoke to the ambassador Olaniyan in Khartoum a few minutes ago,” the agency’s Director, Special Duties, Onimode Bandele, said during a live appearance Monday […]
The President-elect’s spokesman stated that he has been on vacation in France. Barring any last-minute changes, the President-elect, Mr Bola Tinubu is expected to return to the country on Monday (today) after a 34-day absence from Nigeria. Tinubu had March 21 travelled out of the country, in what his campaign council said was meant […]
At least six persons were on Monday confirmed dead after suspected terrorists attacked residents in two separate communities of Plateau State. It was learnt that while two persons were killed in Wereng village, Kuru community, Jos South Local Government Area by the fleeing terrorists while four persons were killed in Heipang community, Barkin Ladi […]
A 39-year-old man, Orishagbemi Sunday, was reportedly stabbed to death in Zango Daji in Adavi LGA of Kogi State. He was reportedly killed while trying to settle a quarrel between two persons, who were quarreling over where to urinate. The incident was said to have occurred in the evening of Friday at the side […]
Justice Now Coalition, a civil society organisation (CSO), says the federal government should obey a judgement nullifying the removal of Ifeanyi Ararume as a non-executive chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited. On Tuesday, Inyang Ekwo, a judge of the federal high court in Abuja, awarded N5 billion in damages in favour […]
POWER generation to the national grid dipped below the 4,000 megawatts mark over the weekend leaving customers across the country with limited electricity supply. Checks on data provided by the National System Operator, NSO, an independent arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, showed that only 18 of the 25 power plants in […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has written to the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), asking it to investigate the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Hudu Yunusa Ari over his role in the state’s governorship election. Yunusa-Ari had declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru as the winner of the supplementary […]
