Saturday 09 November 2024 Minimum wage: Workers decry hardship as seven states delay approval Fans divided over Davido, Wizkid, Burna Boy’s Grammy nominations Grid collapses: States ramp up plans for power plants Extortion: IG orders punishment for errant cops ASUU, others meet FG’s committee next week over 2009 agreement Past govs didn’t incur N191.2bn debts, […]
Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, a 40-year-old Nigerian national, was arrested at a Texas airport following an indictment in the Western District of Washington, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today. Mr Nwadialo was among the newly elected 27 chairmen across Anambra’s local government areas in September. The current Ogbaru local government council chairman was elected on the […]
Four police officers have been detained for allegedly extorting N10 million from some young persons in Bayelsa state. In a statement on Friday, Muyiwa Adejobi, the force spokesperson, identified the officers as Emmanuel Ubong, an assistant superintendent of police (ASP), and Nse Okon, Adiewere Collins, and Kuromare Marine — all police inspectors. Adejobi said the […]
An independent investigation committee set up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has cleared the military of an allegation that it conducted forced abortions on thousands of women in the north-east. However, the panel indicted some soldiers for setting ablaze a woman and three children in Borno state in 2016. The incident occurred in […]
Global food prices rose in October to their highest level in 18 months, with a sharp increase in the cost of vegetable oil, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices of a basket of food commodities, reached 127.4 points last month, a […]
Ukraine said on Friday it had received the bodies of 563 soldiers from Russian authorities, mainly troops that had died in combat in the eastern Donetsk region. The exchange of prisoners and bodies of killed military personnel remains one of the few areas of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv since Russia invaded in 2022. “The […]
A group, the Nigerian Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, has called for immediate investigations into alleged sabotage against the plan to turn around the petroleum refineries in the country. This is just as the group demanded the immediate removal from office of the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, noting […]
The federal government has ordered the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and all other relevant agencies of the ministry to begin the immediate implementation of the recommendations of the inter-agency committee, set up to address the incessant grid collapses in the power sector. Minister for Power, Adebayo Adelabu, gave the matching order in a statement […]
Democrats are facing a painful reckoning over Kamala Harris’s drubbing at the hands of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, as shock gives way to anger and recrimination in the aftermath of a devastating repudiation. Lawmakers and strategists looking for someone to blame for Tuesday’s wipeout have so far been more likely to target […]
A passenger plane departing from Sydney, Australia, experienced engine failure on Friday, causing the aircraft to circle before making a safe emergency landing, Qantas reported on X. Simultaneously, a grass fire ignited along one side of the runway, according to a statement from Sydney Airport. It is unclear whether the two incidents were related. The […]
