Despite a Supreme Court ruling in July that granted financial autonomy to all 774 local governments in Nigeria, Charles Soludo, Anambra State governor, has introduced a new bill that would compel local governments in the state to remit a portion of the allocations they receive from the federal government into a state government-controlled consolidated account, FIJ reports. Titled “Anambra
The Nigerian Army has denied the report in a section of the online media of an attack on troops and the killing of several soldiers and civilians in a Local Government Area of Imo. The Acting Deputy Director, 82 Division Army Public Relations Officer, Lt.-Col. Jonah Unuakhalu, made the rebuttal in a statement issued in
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, affirmed Hon. Martin Amaewhule as the authentic Speaker of the Rivers State Assembly. The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, equally validated the Amaewhule-led members of the Assembly as bonafide lawmakers for the state. While dismissing an appeal that was
Police detectives in Ondo state, have arrested a 34-year-old man, Monday Chukwu, for allegedly stabbing his friend, Kefa Ofando, to death over N2,000 debt in Odigbo council area of the state. Parading the suspect alongside 10 other suspected criminals, the state police commissioner, Abayomi Oladipo, said in Akure, the state capital, that the suspect killed
The National President of the Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria, Abubakar Garima, has revealed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is currently asking oil marketers to buy petroleum products from its depot at N1,010 per litre in Lagos State. He stated that the price peg is significantly higher than what the oil company paid
The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) has attributed the recent hike in the pump price of petrol to the difficulty in landing the premium motor spirit (PMS). Billy Gillis-Harry, PETROAN president, spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Morning Brief’ programme on Thursday. “What I can tell you is once there
The Palestinian Red Crescent said an Israeli air strike on a Gaza school killed at least 28 people Thursday, while the Israeli military reported it struck a Hamas command centre. “Palestine Red Crescent teams responded to 28 fatalities and 54 injuries following the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of Rafida School,” the organisation said, referring to
The 81 Division of the Nigerian Army has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a police officer following an altercation with a soldier in Lagos on October 9, 2024. In a statement issued by the Deputy Director of Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Olabisi Ayeni, the division expressed regret over the
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Thursday sentenced a 67-year-old Lebanese, Zuhier R Akar, to 14 years imprisonment for sexually exploiting two teenage girls. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Kano Command, arraigned Akar of Gidan Wanka, Unity Road, Fagge Local Government Area, Kano with a two-count charge of
A new database has revealed that over 5,700 minors in the U.S. underwent gender-affirming surgeries between 2019 and 2023. Fox News and the New York Post reported on Wednesday that the database, launched by an advocacy group Do No Harm, tracks where children are receiving treatments like puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries for gender
The Defence Headquarters has said a notorious terrorist kingpin in Jigawa State known as Mai Hijabi has been killed in an operation conducted during the week. This, the DHQ said, was part of its effort to destroy the fighting capacities of terror groups across the Northern parts of the country. The Director, Defence Media Operations,