•Olayide Owolabi Adelami Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has nominated former Deputy Clerk to the National Assembly, Chief Olayide Owolabi Adelami, as the new deputy governor of the state. Adelami’s nomination was submitted some six hours after the dissolution of the State Executive by the governor, Ayedatiwa, reports Nigerian Tribune....
•Suspected kidnappers paraded by the police A suspected kidnapper paraded in a wheelchair, Chinaza Philip has confessed to being a car thief and not a kidnapper. The 28-year-old suspect from Enugu State who was arrested in Kaduna after operating in FCT said his gang is fully into stealing cars and not kidnapping, reports The Guardian. [&hellip...
A United Nations special report on the persistent insecurity situation in parts of Katsina State has unveiled 24 terrorists’ cells spread across about 30 forests in this North-West area of Nigeria. The report tagged, “Mapping the potentials of Transitional Justice in Katsina State,” also identified each terrorist leader by name as well as the ...
•Police A combine team of security operatives, attached to Ughelli A division has recovered a decomposing male corpse suspected to be kidnapped victim along Ogor-Evwreni axis of the East -West road in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Though the report was sketchy, it was gathered that the corpse was recovered in a […]...
•Lekki Conservation Centre The Lagos State Government has mandated the closure of the Lekki Conservation Centre for maintenance. This development follows a visitor’s lamentation on social media about the poor condition of the canopy walk bridge and several other sites, reports The Nation. A statement announcing the closure was made late yester...
•Sacked Coach Jean-Louis Gasset Africa Cup of Nations hosts Ivory Coast have sacked coach Jean-Louis Gasset midway through the tournament, the country’s football federation (FIF) announced today. “The contracts of coach Jean-Louis Gasset and his assistant Ghislain Printant are terminated due to insufficient results,” the FIF said in a statemen...
•Beer Saudi Arabia plans to allow the sale of alcohol to non-Muslim diplomats for the first time, two sources familiar with the plan told our correspondent today. Alcohol “will be sold to non-Muslim diplomats” who previously had to import alcohol via a diplomatic pouch, one of the sources said. Prohibition has been the law of […]
•Used plastic containers at a dumpsite The federal government says that the ban of some plastic materials is inevitable, even as it urged Nigerians to be prepared for “wholistic circular management of our waste”. The Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Salako, made this known in a statement yesterday. He said the decision of the […...
•NIS C-G, Caroline Adepoju The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Wura-Ola Adepoju, says it will take two weeks between the point of application for green passports to be produced. Adepoju was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, alongside the NIS Deputy Comptroller General, Kemi Nan...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu this afternoon departed Abuja for Paris, France, on a private visit, according to the presidency. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, made this known in a statement today. The statement added that President Tinubu will return to the country in the first week of February, [&h...
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