Thursday 18 January 2024 Security Agencies Infiltrated By Fifth Columnists – Plateau Gov Ibadan explosion: Residents blame Malian illegal miners as FG probes blast Abduction epidemic: Police in massive deployment as FG faults raising ransom funds CBN to tackle forex infractions with heavy sanctions Student loan begins January as FG opens website soon 74 […]
Former Los Angeles-area gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis, suspected to have killed the late US rapper, Tupac Shakur, has been granted a $750,000 bail. Keffe D was arrested in September last year and was charged with murder with the use of a deadly weapon. Davis’ arrest came two months after Las Vegas police […]
The Area Comptroller of the Ogun II Command, Bisi Alade, conducting journalist around the released bullion van. The Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun State Area II Command, on Friday, released a bullion van arrested at Olorunda area in April 2022 for its involvement in smuggling of foreign rice across the border communities of the state. […]
Doyin Odebowale, a former aide and close ally to the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, has opened up on the feud between the former governor and his successor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa. He also described Akeredolu as a weakling who did not take a decisive step to address a matter involving him and his wife, adding that […]
Inmates of Ikoyi Prison are calling for the removal of Julius Ogueri, the deputy controller of the correctional facility, and Ebomuche Anselem, his orderly, for constantly extorting, threatening, and mistreating them. FIJ learned that long-term inmates fear Ogueri’s heavy-handed approach may lead to a protest, which could lead to the indiscriminate killing of inmates […]
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah, says the repeated and unending killings on the Plateau is beyond herder-farmer clashes, adding that the murderers “want their own kind of Nigeria according to their ideology”. The cleric, in a statement on Saturday, charged the government to resist the agenda of the marauders […]
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), died on Wednesday after months of battling illness reported to be leukemia. Family and top government sources confirmed the death of the former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) president, who died at 67. With his death, Akeredolu became the third Nigerian governor to die while in office after […]
A yet-to-be identified husband allegedly murdered his wife in the Olota area of the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos over her failure to cook his meal last Thursday. PUNCH Metro learnt that trouble started when the husband, who was said to have returned from work, discovered that the wife only prepared noodles rather […]
The political tsunami sweeping Rivers State appears unabating as two more commissioners on Thursday resigned from Governor Sim Fubara’s cabinet. The latest to pull out of the cabinet are the Commissioner for Works George-Kelly Alabo and his Social Welfare and Rehabilitation counterpart Inime Aguma. Their resignations – coming hours after the state’s Attorney-General (AG) […]
Seven students of the Federal University of Lafia (FULAFIA) in Nasarawa State, who were abducted four days ago, have been released. The students were released on Sunday evening through efforts by a collaborative team of the military and other security forces. The President of the Student Representative Council, Ibrahim Ogabo, verified the development in […]
