The Founder of IBD Hotels, Ibrahim Dende, has requested the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to allow the withdrawal of his N500m defamation lawsuit against investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo and the Foundation for Investigative Journalism. The letter, addressed to the registrar and parties in the case, dated September 30, 2024, and titled
The Nawfia community in Njikoka Local Government Area, Anambra State, was plunged into mourning over the weekend following a gunmen attack that left five people dead. Eyewitnesses reported that the assailants stormed the town on Sunday night, arriving in a Lexus RX Jeep and a Toyota Sienna. They opened fire on unsuspecting residents, killing five
Few weeks ago, Centre for Science and Environment (SCE), a not-for-profit public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi, India, released its Down To Earth annual State of Africa Environment 2024 report. The report, which was released in Nairobi, Kenya, three weeks ago, highlights the intersection between water on the one hand and
Police officers, on Saturday, reportedly disrupted the local government election at Elekahia Primary School, Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital. According to TheCable, about 20 patrol vans carrying heavily armed personnel reportedly arrived at the scene, with the officers firing teargases into the premises of the primary school where the voting exercise was underway. Earlier, the
Some armed assailants on Monday night set the country home of Senator Frank Ibezim ablaze. Ibezim who is the immediate past senator for Imo North ( Okigwe zone) hails from Nsu in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo state. A video clip circulating online shows Ibezim’s house gutted in fire with a voice
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has lamented the security scourge bedevilling Africa, saying “Non-state actors have now taken over the security in some African nations.” Obi who called on global leaders for a leadership dialogue focused on governance, spoke in Athens, Greece’s capital, at an international
About 10 persons have died following a cholera outbreak in Ndibokote village of Ezza Inyimagu in the Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Among the dead person is a nursing mother, who left behind a nine-month-old baby. The Ebonyi State Health Commissioner Moses Ekuma confirmed this in a statement by the ministry’s spokesman Lucy
The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, His Lordship Matthew Kukah, on Sunday, misled Nigerians that President Bola Tinubu didn’t sign the 2023 peace accord before the presidential election. Kukah, one of the conveners of the National Peace Committee headed by former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar, made this known on Sunday in Benin City during the Edo
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has ordered the recall of Dove Beauty Cream Bar Soap (100g) with batch number 81832M 08, produced in Germany, due to the presence of a chemical impurity. NAFDAC said the product violates the Cosmetic Products Regulation by containing Butylphenyl Methylpropional, also known as Lilial, a
Businessman, Aliko Dangote, on Tuesday revealed that the Federal Executive Council is working on a new pricing arrangement for petrol produced from the Dangote Refinery. The 650,000-barrel-per-day facility officially unveiled its refined petrol on Tuesday with Dangote announcing that product will be in filling stations in the next 48 hours depending on the country’s national