Monday 07 August 2023 Niger closes air space citing ‘threat of intervention’ Bank shareholders protest as directors borrow N113bn Plateau, Benue, Niger IDPs hit 548,751, FG begins emergency intervention Atiku has filed case against Tinubu in US– Aide INEC prepares 11,355 BVAS for Kogi, Bayelsa, Imo polls Traders lament bad roads in Ogun community […]
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has alerted Nigerians to scammers posing as the parastatal with fake contracts and a forged website to take advantage of unsuspecting individuals. The commission’s Director, Corporate Affairs, Ibitoye Abosede, in a statement on Sunday, said a new scam circulating online is “another communication between fraudsters and a US […]
Not less than 19 passengers have been killed and over 40 injured after a train derailed on Sunday in Pakistan. Taking off from Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, eight train cars went off the tracks of the passenger train near a town in the southern province of Sindh, according to Hum News, local media. Officials say […]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has announced its decision to embark on a daily peaceful protest and picketing of the Federal Ministry of Health, Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, as well as all federal and state tertiary health institutions nationwide from Wednesday. Giving the notice on Saturday […]
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 45-year-old man, Bankole Oginni following the death of a woman who was said to be his ex-lover. According to the police, the 45-year-old woman, (whose identity had not been revealed by the police) was found dead in the house of the suspect while some parts of […]
Operatives of Anambra Police Command on Thursday, 3rd August 2023 at about 8.30 PM, recovered two pump action guns, a Mercedes car, ammunitions and other items from a robbery gang after a hot chase. DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, the spokesman of the Command said the feat was achieved by a detachment of Police-led Forward Operating […]
Immigration Police have arrested a 26-year-old Nigerian man, Anamere George, for allegedly overstaying his visa by four years and also seized cocaine at his home in Phuket, Thailand. Pol Col Thanes Sukchai, the Phuket Immigration police chief, said Anamere was arrested at 1:30pm on Thursday, August 3, 2023, on the road to the Baan […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over “the failure to publish spending details of about N400bn so far saved as a result of the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called petrol.” The suit followed reports that the Federal Government has saved […]
No fewer than 13 Ghanaians including twelve men and one woman have embarked set on an epic journey from Ghanaian capital to the United Kingdom. The journey will be covering a staggering 10,000 kilometers, as they stated that their mission is clear, which is to drive from Accra to London while enjoying the experience, […]
Pressure mounted Saturday on the leaders of a coup in Niger on the eve of a deadline set by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS for the military to relinquish control or face possible armed intervention. Former colonial power France, with which the junta broke military ties shortly after taking power on July 26, […]
