•Tinubu at NASS The presidency is to get nearly N146 billion in the proposed 2024 budget, according to fresh documents released last night by the House of Representatives. The amount comprises N60,535, 827, 133 for capital expenditure and N85,413, 321,897 for recurrent expenditure. For statutory transfers, the National Assembly will get N197,9...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it will freeze accounts without a Bank Verification Number (BVN) or National Identification Number (NIN) from April 2024. This is according to a circular issued today by the apex bank which said a BVN or NIN verification will be “conducted shortly”. … developing story
•A NAF helicopter A Nigerian Air Force helicopter crashed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, this morning. NAF spokesman, Edward Gabkwet, confirmed the development in a statement. He said all those onboard survived though they sustained “minor injuries”. The helicopter with the number NAF MI-35P crashed at exactly 7.45 am shortly afte...
•Safina Namukwaya A 70-year-old Ugandan woman, Safina Namukwaya, has delivered a set of twins – a boy and a girl, after becoming pregnant through an In vitro fertilisation treatment, reports BBC. Namukwaya went through a successful caesarean delivery on Wednesday at the Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre in the Ugandan capital...
•Youth corpers Parents and family members of the prospective corps members from Akwa Ibom State, who were kidnapped on August 17, 2023 while travelling to orientation camp in Sokoto State are currently gripped with fear as the abductors demand that they pay N10 million each as ransom for the release of the victims. One of […]
•Abuja airport A Boeing 737 passenger jet belonging to Aerocontractors Airlines crash-lands at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja today. Although no injury or fatality was recorded, the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, an agency of the federal government, confirmed that the aircraft got involved in a “serious accident” around...
•Late Usman Baba Pategi a.k.a. Samanja Veteran Hausa drama actor Usman Baba Pategi, popularly known as Samanja, is dead. He died in the early hours of today at a private hospital in Kaduna State after a prolonged illness. The late Kannywood actor served in the Nigerian Army before retiring to work for the Federal Radio […]
•Anyanwu, Uzodimma and Achonu Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the 27 local government results announced in the November 11, 2023 governorship poll in Imo State Collation of results at the State Collation Centre started around 02:30am today in Owerri, the state capital, with the Vice Chancellor of the [...
•Gunman A round of gunshots was fired at the Amaimo Registration Centre in Ikeduru LGA of Imo State today. It was gathered that security officials fired the gunshots into the air to quell an argument, reports Saturday Vanguard. The gunshots were fired a few meters away from the Central Amaimo school where the PDP governorship […]
•Ajaero after the attack President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero has given an account of how he was beaten in Imo State by alleged thugs. Ajaero said he was arrested by the police in Owerri, Imo State capital and handed over to thugs numbering seven who beat him and dragged him on […]