Beyond the Headlines
Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State, said his administration has reduced banditry to about 70 per cent in the last one year. Since over one month, Katsina State in Northern Central part of the country, has continued experience increased mass abductions and killings by terrorists. According to the Governor, this was sequel to the […]
Controversial Nigerian singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has reportedly been arrested for assaulting a police officer. The ‘Zazoo’ crooner was taken into police custody just days after his release from a previous arrest related to a debt over a G-Wagon he had purchased. Recent reports online indicate that the CEO of Zeh […]
Flash flooding has killed at least 50 people in western Afghanistan, provincial police said Saturday, with some residents reaching safety on higher ground mere minutes before the water hit. The floods on Friday also destroyed about 2,000 houses, and damaged thousands more homes and businesses, Ghor police spokesman Abdul Rahman Badri said in a […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Friday, handed over $22,000 recovered from a convicted internet fraudster, Hakeem Olanrewaju, to the Federal Bureau of Investigations, in Lagos. Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos had, on August 15, 2023, ordered that the money recovered from Olanrewaju, who was sentenced […]
The Nigerian Union in South Africa has condemned the killing of Prince Ebuka, a 43-year-old Nigerian national from Obosi, Anambra State. Ebuka was killed on Friday in Danielskuil, Northern Cape, South Africa. This was contained in a statement signed by the NUSA National Publicity Secretary, Habib Miller, and made available to our correspondent on […]
Junta-run Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have finalised plans to form a confederation after turning their backs on former colonial ruler France to seek closer ties with Russia. Their foreign ministers met Friday in Niger’s capital Niamey to agree on a text establishing the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). “The objective […]
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has said that if in 2027, the party decides that it is the South-East’s turn and selects Peter Obi as its candidate, he will readily offer his support. “I have said repeatedly and I even said it before the 2023 general elections that […]
The federal government has approved the re-constitution of governing councils at public tertiary institutions. Folasade Boriowo, media head at the federal ministry of education, confirmed this to TheCable on Saturday. In June 2023, the National Universities Commission (NUC) dissolved the councils of all federal varsities on a presidential directive. The federal directive also affected […]
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A contractor with the Central Bank of Nigeria, Victor Onyejiuwa, on Friday, told the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja that he had no dealings with the former CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele. He said that the $600,000 he was asked to pay to the management of the CBN before he would be paid […]
