The USS Bataan strike group and the 2,400-strong 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit are being deployed to the Mid-East ready for unexpected trouble arising from spiraling tension with Iran and potential reactions to the release of Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” – a plan for an Israel-Palestinian peace – early next week. On Friday, Jan. […]
Popular social media platform, Facebook has shut down the account of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on the platform. Crimefacts.news reports that the ban on the account was effected last Thursday. Facebook however gave a terse explanation on why it shut down the separatist leader’s account. It read: “Your […]
Presidential aide Lauretta Onochie has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the former minister of education Oby Ezekwesili of influencing Nigeria’s latest position on the 2019 global corruption index, News Digest reports. Onochie uploaded the duo’s picture on her Twitter account which she captioned ” here are the #AngryBirds who Founded Transparency International. Should we […]
The country’s refineries under the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation made a cumulative loss of N123.25bn from January to October 2019, latest figures released last Wednesday showed. Economic Confidential reports that an analysis of data in the October 2019 oil and gas report of the NNPC showed that all three entities recorded losses […]
While Imo people were Wednesday waiting for the swearing in of the new Governor-elect of the state, Senator Hope Uzodinma, a former Auditor-General of the state, Barr. Osita Nwosu was busy allegedly plotting how to steal official documents from his former office. Owing to the vacuum created by the fact that there was no Acting […]
…Says, it violates extant laws Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called on the Kano State Government to discontinue its move to establish a committee to address alleged professional misconduct and abuse of privilege by media organizations in the State, describing it as an unwarranted and politically motivated effort to restrict media freedom. In a statement […]
Long before any of the governorship election appeals were dispensed with at the Supreme Court Tuesday, a middle aged Nigerian rose up and walked away from the court lamenting the apparent tragedy of a less than competent Chief Justice of Nigeria. The man who goes by the name Henry Shield took to his Twitter handle […]
A graduating student of Chemical Engineering from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Mr. Anthony Obikwelu, has taking his industry by storm with his recent innovation, design and manufacture of a machine that converts plastic and other waste materials into fuel. Obikwelu hereunder describes the working and funtionality of his machine. His words: “This machine produces petroleum […]
The Transition Committee Chairman of Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia state, Mr Onyekachi Okoro, is dead. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the area confirmed the incident. Okoro was said to have slumped at a private residence in Umuahia around 1pm on Thursday and died before he could get medical help. […]
The US Ain al-Assad air base in W. Iraq and a US facility at Irbil, capital of the Kurdish republic, were hit by 35 missiles early Wednesday, January 8, Tehran announced. Sources linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that these attacks were part of a series still to come in revenge for the killing of […]
