There is no vehicular movement in vast swathes of the geopolitical region as residents comply with the sit-at-home order issued by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In certain neighbourhoods, you could hear a pin drop in the distance. Traders have also not opened for business due to fear of attacks by the […]
The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced about $176m in additional humanitarian assistance for Nigeria, Mali and some other countries in West Africa. In a statement on Tuesday, USAID said the fresh aid “will support communities in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Nigeria facing […]
A Federal Government delegation will meet with officials of Teesside University in the United Kingdom to address the alleged “unjust deportation order” issued to some Nigerian students in the middle of their studies at the institution. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) announced this in a statement on Wednesday. It would be recalled that […]
Gunmen enforcing a sit-at-home order issued by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), has reportedly killed four soldiers at a military checkpoint in Obikabia Junction, Aba, Abia State, Business Hallmark reports. According to Business Hallmark, details of the incident remain unclear, but videos circulating on social media show the gunmen approach the soldiers while […]
Thursday 29 Thursday 2024 First anniversary: FG plans supplementary budget, warns against foreign aid Minimum wage: FG invites Labour to resume talks Friday Reps differ on gains of 25-year democracy Heavy security, panic buying as IPOB holds Biafra Heroes Day Stop economic mismanagement, Afenifere tells FG Discos monthly revenue rise by N5bn amid outage […]
Terrorists, on Wednesday, reportedly attacked and killed 12 persons at Maro Junction, a weekly Market in Maro Ward, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A former chairman of the local government, Cafra Caino, who confirmed the development to PUNCH Online, said the assailants invaded the market around 3pm on Wednesday and opened fire. […]
Two female students of the Joseph Sarwuan University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State have been kidnapped by gunmen. The students were said to have been kidnapped late hours of Saturday. The spokesperson for the state command, Catherine Anene, who confirmed the kidnap of two female students to journalists on Wednesday, noted that the female […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has again ordered the interim forfeiture of the sum of $1.4m linked to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice Ayokunle Faji ordered the forfeiture of the money to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The judge also ordered the EFCC to […]
A stray bullet fired by an operative of the Ekiti state police command has hit and killed two people in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Tribune Online gathered that the incident which happened around the popular Omisanjana area of the state capital has thrown the entire area into mourning. A source noted that the police […]
A top Israeli security official said Wednesday the war against Hamas in Gaza could go on until the year’s end to achieve the aim of destroying the Palestinian militant group. “We may have another seven months of fighting to consolidate our success and achieve what we have defined as the destruction of Hamas’s power […]
