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Saturday 15 July 2023 Air Force Plane Crashes In Benue Nigerians Should Support Tinubu, He Will Work – Oba Of Benin Tinubu To Attend 5th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting Of AU In Nairobi Come Out And Surrender, There’ll Be No Negotiation, Army Tells Terrorists Police Arrest Man For Allegedly Selling His Three Kids In Rivers […]
Nigerians, and other foreign nationals coming into the United Kingdom will have to pay more for visa applications. Also, the Immigration Health Surcharge paid by immigrants applying for visas will “increase significantly”, the United Kingdom has said. The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, made the announcement on the increase in visa application fees on […]
Standard Chartered Plc says it has reached an agreement to sell its subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa to Access Bank, a subsidiary of Access Holdings. The multinational bank made this known in a statement released on Friday. In April 2022, Standard Chartered had said it would fully exit operations in seven countries in Africa and […]
A Nigerian Air Force FT-7NI trainer aircraft has crashed in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. Channels Television reports that the incident happened on Friday evening, while on a routine training exercise. The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, confirmed this in a statement on Friday. He said two pilots […]
The Rivers State Police Command has arrested one Michael Charles alias Thankgod Ekwueme for allegedly selling his three children. This follows the Command’s busting of a child trafficking ring operating in the state. Parading the suspects within the Old GRA Police Station, Head Office of the CP Monitoring Unit, who were responsible for the […]
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has asked the court to dismiss the order barring the agency from imposing fines on broadcast stations. On May 10, a federal high court in Abuja ruled that the NBC does not have the powers to impose penalties on broadcast stations. James Omotosho, the presiding judge, set aside fines […]
The Kano State Government has faulted the distribution of the Federal Government’s allocation of N500 billion through the Bank of Industry to support small-scale industries across the country’s geopolitical zones. Governor Abba Yusuf made the complaint during a meeting with representatives from the Kano Cooperative Society at the Government House on Thursday evening. He […]
Sequel to the two week sit-at-home order issued by the self- acclaimed Biafra Prime Minister, Simon Ekpa, cum other security challenges bedeviling South East region of the country, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Friday advised the federal government led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to release its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, noting that […]
Barely 24 hours after the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) directed all commands and formations of the Agency to begin an immediate clampdown on illegal sale and use of nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas operatives have intercepted over 64, 863.5 […]
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has reserved judgment in the petition by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM). APM is seeking the nullification of Tinubu’s election on the grounds that his running mate, Kashim Shettma, was not qualified to contest having allegedly engaged in double nomination. After parties adopted their final written addresses, the […]
