•Terrorists Barely a few days after armed groups launched attacks between Saturday evening and Tuesday morning on Bokkos Local Government Area in Plateau State, a community of Budel in Tangur district of the same local government came under attack last night. The Transition Committee Chairman of Bokkos, Monday Kassah disclosed that marauders a...
• Donald Trump The US state of Maine yesterday blocked former president Donald Trump from its Republican presidential primary ballot, the second state to disqualify him over his role in the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol. Maine’s top election official, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, decided in favor of the citizens who had [&hellip...
Dear Readers, Mid this week (on Wednesday December 27, 2023), we got news that the most certain feature of all animals including the one called man had happened to Rotimi Akerodolu. A few hours before that news came in, the information we were digesting was about the death of Ghali Na’Abba. Those are the ones […]
•Third Mainland Bridge The federal government has announced plans to close the Iyana Oworonshoki-Adeniji Adele section of the Third Mainland Bridge from 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. The federal controller of Works in Lagos State, Olukorede Kesha, announced this in a statement yesterday. Ms Kesha said the closure would be done on the...
•Terrorists Invaders have threatened fresh attacks on a community in Plateau State on Friday (today), barely four days after they killed 195 persons in 17 communities across the state. The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Middle Belt Forum, Stanley Kavwam, in an interview with Arise Television yesterday, said the terrorists had sent ...
•Cyberattacks Official reports of multiple cyber-attacks on both government and private digital infrastructure have exposed Nigeria’s Information and Technology (IT) security vulnerability in the outgoing year, 2023. According to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NiTDA), Nigeria, S/Africa, Egypt and Kenya lose $2.4bn annu...
Over 20 of the 27 electricity plants on the Nigerian electricity grid are in shambles as some of the plants are producing only about 0.2 per cent of their installed capacity. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in its third quarter report for the year showed that troubles await the aging plants, leading to recurring […...
•Nigerian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is proposing a Bill to criminalise delay and non-payment of salaries of employees by individuals and corporate bodies in the country. The Bill, entitled: Employees Remuneration Protection Bill, 2023, is sponsored by a member representing Agege federal constituency of Lagos State, ...
The biggest battle the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) faced in the outgoing year is vandalism, its Managing Director Fidet Okhiria has said. Okhiria, who stated this while addressing reporters in Lagos, said over 50,000 clips used to stabilise the rail slippers were stolen from the Lagos-Ibadan Standard gauge Train Service (LITS) in the ye...
•Ivory Coast players Africa Cup of Nations hosts Ivory Coast included a smattering of overseas stars in their 27-man squad for the January 11- February 11 competition released yesterday. The Ivory Coast’s French manager Jean-Louis Gasset has called up Borussia Dortmund striker Sebastien Haller, Monaco defender Wilfried Singo, and midfielders I...

