Nigeria may add 480,000 barrels to its daily crude oil output as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and ExxonMobil took a step towards resolving the disagreement surrounding the sale of the latter’s asset to Seplat Energy. On Thursday, the NNPCL confirmed it had signed a settlement agreement with ExxonMobil companies in Nigeria over […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to Chioma Okoli, the Lagos resident standing trial for conspiracy and cyberstalking over her review of a tomato mix produced by Erisco Foods Limited. The conditions, FIJ gathered, include a bail bond of N5 million, two sureties in like sum, one of which must be […]
Barely four days after killing fifteen fishermen in the Tumbun Rogo community, the Islamic State – West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists have given residents of Kukawa LGA notice to quit their communities or face death from the terror group. A resident who fled his community to Maiduguri three hours after receiving the threat, revealed […]
The office of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) has dragged a lawyer, Everestus Ugwuowo and three others to court over allegation of defrauding a woman of N29 million and forging documents to sell a house in Abuja. In the amended charge number: FHC/ABJ/CR/121/2018 presently before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court, Abuja, […]
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said that he may reapply for the restoration of his permanent residency in the United States following the conviction of former US President, Donald Trump. Trump was on Thursday, convicted on each of the 34 charges of falsifying business records to hide a payment meant to silence porn […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized over N107 million worth of illicit and dangerous drugs from motor parks and markets across Abuja. According to a statement yesterday via X, the agency’s Investigation & Enforcement/Federal Task Force Directorate, acting on intelligence from the Department of State Services (DSS), […]
A coalition of women’s rights organizations, Womanifesto, has called for the immediate release of Chioma Okoli, a woman who has been detained since September 2023 for her alleged defamation against Erisco Foods Limited. In a statement signed by over 150 organizations, including Women Advocates and Research Documentation Centre (WARDC), Purple Woman Foundation, and ActionAid […]
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has apologised for the glitch on its results viewing portal. The results page had gone blank early Friday morning but was later restored after roughly two hours. At the time of the glitch, the IEC said local offices continued to capture results while its technicians were working […]
The Nigerian military high command has vowed to retaliate the killing of five soldiers by suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB on Thursday. Recall that soldiers were killed and their vans razed by gunmen enforcing the the IPOB’s Sit-At-Home order at Obikabia Junction Checkpoint in Obingwa Local Government Areas in […]
There are indications that not a few secondary schools in Owerri, the Imo State capital devised means for their graduating students to write their West African Examination Council (WAEC’s) examination scheduled for Thursday, 30th May. This is against the backdrop of the incessant threats and fear-mongering in circulation especially from members of the Indigenous […]
