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FCTA demolishes BDC headquarters in Abuja

  Officials of City management team of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), have demolished buildings at the Bureau De Change (BDC) headquarters in Zone 4 area of Abuja. Leader of the team and Director, Department of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima, said the buildings serve as hideouts for suspected criminals in the city centre. He […]

Most kidnap cases stage managed — Police

  Police have disclosed that most reported kidnap cases across the country are either fake or stage managed. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Muyiwa Adejobi made this known during the presentation of medals to the athletes that participated in the boxing and archery categories of the 14th edition of the Biennial Police Games tagged […]

Igboho asks FG to free Nnamdi Kanu

  Sunday Adeyemo, the Yoruba nation activist popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has called for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Speaking in a viral video on Tuesday, Igboho said Kanu did not commit any offence, noting that the “political games” on his matter should be stopped. […]

Why there’s MTN network outage on Wednesday

  MTN Nigeria says multiple fibre cuts are responsible for the service outage experienced by its subscribers on Wednesday. Several users had complained about suffering network disruption. According to a post on its X page on Wednesday, MTN said the outage is affecting voice and data services. The telecommunications company also expressed regret at the […]

Eight Migrants Found Dead Off Morocci

  The bodies of eight migrants have been found after their vessel sank off Morocco’s northern coast, local authorities said Wednesday, adding that nine others were rescued. The migrants took off from Morocco’s northern Nador region seeking to “cross the Mediterranean aboard an inflatable boat”, authorities were quoted by the state news agency MAP as […]

Binance Will Destroy Nigeria’s Economy If Not Stopped – Presidency

  Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, says if not stopped, cryptocurrency trading website Binance will destroy the Nigerian economy by arbitrarily fixing foreign exchange rate. “If we don’t clamp down on Binance, Binance will destroy the economy of this country. They just fix the rate,” a displeased Onanuga said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on […]

Army uncovers 40 wells in Rivers

  The war against illegal oil theft received a huge boost on Wednesday as troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt have uncovered over 40 dugout crude oil wells in Rumuekpe community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. The troops uncovered the site during a sweep and clear operation on the […]

Ghana passes anti-gay law

  The Ghana Parliament, on Wednesday, passed the bill on human sexual rights and family values, commonly referred to as the anti-LGBTQ bill. The bill, called the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, was introduced by Sam Nartey George, the MP for Ningo-Prampram. GhanaWeb reports that the bill was a […]

BREAKING: Nigeria detains Binance executives

  Two senior executives at Binance have been detained in Nigeria as the country cracks down on cryptocurrency exchanges, Vanguard is reporting. The executives flew to Nigeria following the country’s decision to ban several cryptocurrency trading websites last week but they were detained by the office of the country’s national security adviser and their passports […]