•TUC President Festus Osifo The Trade Union Congress (TUC) leadership today expressed concern about Nigeria’s escalating debt profile, urging the Federal government to promptly reduce borrowing. This call to curtail borrowing is a key resolution from the TUC’s National Executive Council meeting in Abuja. The TUC also cautioned against the pote...
•Alake The Minister of Solid Mineral, Mr Dele Alake, has alleged that powerful Nigerians involved in illegal mining were responsible for other criminal activities and involved in sponsoring banditry and terrorism in the country. Alake said this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Solid Minerals for the 2024 budget...
•New Lagos CP Adegoke The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of Commissioner of Police Fayoade Adegoke Mustapha to the Lagos State Police Command. Adegoke, who just graduated from the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, is to take over from DCP Waheed Ayilara, who had heade...
•Segun Obayendo Over 200 people lost their lives as a result of boat accidents in seven states in 2023, the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration declared today. It said findings by CIOTA showed that the accidents occurred in Kwara, Calabar, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Sokoto, Kebbi and Ondo states, adding that thousands had died from road cr...
Men of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control have arrested 10 suspects over adulterated beverages as the agency shut down the Cemetery Market in Aba, Abia State. The Director, South-East Zone of NAFDAC, Martins Iluyomade, disclosed this to journalists today during a raid of the market which began on Monday. He [&hell...
•Gunmen Gunmen today ambushed a convoy of Dawood workers along the Ahoada/Abua road along the East-West Road in Rivers State, shooting dead four soldiers and two drivers. A security source, who confirmed the development, said the suspected kidnappers ambushed a team of expatriates being escorted by troops of 5 Bn along road Ahoada- Obua in [&h...
•Edison Ehie A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has confirmed Edison Ehie as the authentic speaker of the Rivers state House of Assembly. Edison Ehie is one of the four lawmakers in the camp of Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Ehie was suspended and removed as leader of the House by his colleagues in the wake […]
•The culprit The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has condemned a female officer caught in a viral video demanding a bribe from a passenger at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The unidentified officer was seen in the less than two-minute clip requesting a sum of N5,000 while clutching the trolley containing the passenger’s lug...
Turkey’s football plunged into all-out crisis today following an on the pitch attack on a referee by a club president who was mentioned as a possible candidate for mayor of Ankara. The top-flight SuperLig indefinitely suspended matches and a court placed Ankaragucu club president Faruk Koca and two others in pre-trial detention for “injuring a...
•Nigerian Army Troops of Exercise Golden Dawn III in conjunction with personnel of the Nigerian Navy, the Nigerian Police Force and local vigilante operatives, have raided the camps of Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed affiliates, the Eastern Security Network in Orsumoghu general area of Anambra State. The Nigerian Army in a statement ...

