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  The Imo State Police Command said it has beefed up security in the state in the Okigwe area, following the recent attack by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in the area popularly called Gariki, Ama Awusa, occupied predominantly by northerners Reacting to ...

  Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, Yinka Egbeyemi has been removed as Commander of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS) and banished to the Police Command. Egbeyemi who became RRS Commander in December 2020 has been replaced by CSP Shola Jejeloye, who was ...

  The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede, has ordered the arrest of two officers allegedly involved in the manhandling of a female staff member at the Regional Hotel, Ojo, Lagos. The incident, which was ...

  US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump hit out at one another in a testy televised debate – the first of the 2024 election. The two rivals accuse one another of lying as they answer wide-ranging questions on issues including ...

  The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said on Thursday that the Presidency had not approached the National Assembly with a request for new presidential jets. He, however, said should such a request be made, the Senate would approve it. Akpabio said the ...

  Kenya President William Ruto has been given a 48-hour ultimatum by the public to step down, as citizens demand a new government committed to “transparency, accountability, and good governance”. The call for resignation has gained significant traction on social ...

Former Chief Executive Officer of Konga, one of Nigeria’s e-commerce giants, Nick Imudia, has reportedly died by suicide. Imudia was said to have committed the act by jumping from the balcony of his apartment in the Lekki area of Lagos ...

Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has threatened to sanction distribution companies that failed to complete the migration of Token Identifier of Standard Transfer Specification Meters of their customers from Key Revision 1 to Key Revision 2 before July 31, 2024. The ...

In the past week, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited said it uncovered another 165 illegal refineries in various locations across the Niger Delta. According to a NNPC documentary between June 15 and 21, about 400 incidents of oil theft ...

  The FCMB-TLG private debt fund, which is seeking to raise N10bn from series 1 of its N100bn Programme, has opened for investment. The fund, which has been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission, is sponsored and managed by ...

  Former governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a lawsuit against the Kaduna Assembly over the results of a ₦432 billion investigation by an ad-hoc committee. The suit, filed by the ex-governor’s lawyer Abdulhakeem Mustapha, a Senior Advocate ...

  Six teenagers returning home after writing their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), also known as ‘Junior WAEC,’ have reportedly drowned in the Mbang River in Ribang village, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna state The six victims were students ...

  A fire has erupted at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, situated in the Lekki Free Zone, Lagos, Nigeria The blaze is currently raging, and its cause is yet to be determined. A video circulating on social media shows thick, dark ...

  Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is set to UPGRADE Ibadan airport to International status. He made this known on Wednesday, while receiving the Chief of Air Staff of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF), Air Marshal Hassan Baba Abubakar ...

  The Federal Government on Tuesday, announced a ban on single-use plastics across all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, MDAs. The Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Adekunle Salako, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, ...

  President William Ruto has announced that he will not sign the controversial Finance Bill 2024 into law, following widespread protests and public opposition. The bill had proposed tax increases that many Kenyans felt would unfairly burden them. In a ...

  Essien Andrew, a deputy comptroller in charge of Finance, Administration, and Technical Service the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) collapsed and d!ed in the National Assembly on Tuesday during appearance before a committee of House of Representatives Committee on Public ...

  The Nigeria Police Force has arrested the man who assaulted a police officer at Chevron Roundabout, Lekki, on June 22. Inspector-General of Police Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun condemned the attack. The assailant, 47-year-old Oluwaseun Jacobs, a cobbler from Ajah, was apprehended and ...

  The Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture to the Federal Government, of the sum of $1.4 million, linked to a former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele. Justice Ayokunle Faji gave the order ...

  Chief Mrs. Florence Ajimobi has remembered her husband, late former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi on his 4th year Fidau prayer. Taking to her Instagram page, she wrote; ”Today, we gather to honour and remember the legacy of an ...

  Nigerian politician, Joe Igbokwe has expressed his disappointment that Davido’s wedding to Chioma did not hold in the South East region. He faults this on security concerns and instability caused by groups such as the Indigenous People of Biafra ...

  A 39-year-old woman, Afusat Ololade, has d!ed in the Ita Baale area of Ifo, Ogun State, after being injected. The incident happened at about 4:07pm on Tuesday 18, 2024. The deceased was allegedly given an unknown injection, which led ...

  The primary school teacher, who flogged her eight-year old pupil to d3ath at Landmark International School Mgbakwu, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State has been remanded in a Correctional Centre. The suspect, Mrs Faith Nwoye, was remanded after ...

  A middle-aged man who attempted to steal electrical cables and other equipment inside the powerhouse of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) was electrocuted The man whose identity could not be ascertained had found his way into the power-generating ...

  After about 13 years of trial, the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday discharged and acquitted a former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, of money laundering charges preferred against him by the Economic and ...