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Simon Ekpa was arrested Thursday by Finnish police and taken to their facility for questioning. Finnish authorities have arrested a controversial Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, who has threatened to use violence to disrupt the conduct of the 2023 general election in ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday arraigned one Usman Abubakar alongside his foundation, Young Alhaji Foundation, before a Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, over alleged N950m fraud. Abubakar, who was brought before Justice Mojisola Dada, ...

  Ahead of the commencement of the 2023 general elections on Saturday 25th February, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have stormed the Ujiogba Forest Reserve in Esan West LGA, Edo State where they destroyed 7,286 kilograms ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has said he had become the envy of other presidents because of the support his government had received from the private sector in addressing the social ills facing the country. The president made the assertion yesterday ...

  At least two people have been killed and more than 50 trapped after a coal mine collapsed in Alxa League in northern China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, according to the state media. “The accident happened on Wednesday afternoon, and ...

  The alleged organ tracking trial of former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, continued on Tuesday in London, with the court hearing more about how the 21-year-old victim was allegedly trafficked to London to provide Ekweremadu’s ailing daughter, ...

  Kebbi state police Command, Birnin Kebbi, has arrested one Yunusa Adamu of Tungar Tawaye in Koko town for r3ping one 5-year-old Fatima Musa. The suspect was alleged to have been using N20 to N30 naira to lure her into ...

  The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, on Wednesday said Nigerians are not ready for a president from the Igbo extraction ahead of the forthcoming election. Speaking on the 2023 general elections in a Channels Television programme, ‘The ...

  The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the second peace accord ahead of Saturday’s poll. Other presidential candidates also signed in a ceremony witnessed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki; ...

  The distribution of electoral materials to the twenty local governments in Lagos State by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) started on Monday at the Central Bank of Nigeria. The distribution was done by the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday cautioned voters against the use of mobile phones at the polling units during Saturday’s election, declaring that it is a criminal offence. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ogun State, Niyi ...

  The Court of Appeal sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, has affirmed Biodun Oyebanji as the winner of the governorship election held on June 18, 2022 in the state.   Delivering the judgment on Tuesday, a three-member panel of ...

  The British High Commissioner to Nigeria Catriona Laing has listed raising taxation among three things Nigeria’s next president should focus on. Laing was speaking on Tuesday when she was featured on Channels Television’s election programme The 2023 Verdict. “There ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today, February 20, 2023 arraigned one Emmanuel Adedeji Esekhaegbe before Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa of the Federal High Court Kano on an eight count charge of impersonation and stealing. The defendant allegedly stole ...

  Operatives of Ekiti State Amotekun Corps have arrested a man, identified as Celestine, with fake new N1, 000 notes amounting to about N250, 000. Celestine, who claimed he is an Anambra State-born Lagos-based businessman, said he was travelling from ...

  As early as 6 am this morning, Nigerians have thronged various commercial banks in Delta State in search of Naira notes. The same thing also applied in many states according to sources. The situation has remained the same for ...

  The Nigerian Railway Corporation on Tuesday announced that rail services would be suspended ahead of Saturday’s elections, from February 25 to Monday, February 27. Spokesperson for the railway corporation, Mahmood Yakubu, made the announcement in a statement, saying the ...

  Former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Adams Oshiomhole has publicly tackled President Muhammadu Buhari over his government’s Naira redesign policy. The former Edo Governor made his outburst at Jattu market in Auchi Edo North, saying Buhari ...

  Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje has said the effect of the currency redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN and the attendant cash crunch problem on the people of Kano is like that of a virus similar to Covid. ...

  Gunmen on Tuesday night attacked a popular Radio Station, Wish FM 99.5 and the Atlantic Television Network in Ozuoba, in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, with explosive devices suspected to be dynamite as well as sporadic ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has convened a National security council meeting at the State House.   The meeting which has all security chiefs in attendance, comes barely two days before the general elections and is expected to review the current security ...

  The Federal High Court has declared a short break to enable its judges to vote in Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. The break, according to a circular signed by the Chief Judge of the court, John Tsoho, would ...

  Kebbi State Police Command has arrested three persons in possession of fake new currency notes worth N17 million, reasonably suspected to be counterfeit.   Addressing newsmen at the headquarters, yesterday, the state’s Commissioner of police, Ahmed Magaji Kotangora, said ...

  Two hunters, whose names have not been ascertained, have discovered a bag full of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in a forest in Nnewi, Anambra State. This is coming just three days to the all-important general election in Nigeria. The ...

  Former Governor of Abia state and senator representing Abia North in the national assembly, Orji Uzor Kalu has said that he and his family are suffering over the Naira redesign and cashless policy, TGB reports. Appearing on a Channels ...