•ECOWAS meeting West African leaders meet today for talks with the region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts. After coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger since 2020, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc also saw member states Sie...
•Gunmen Gunmen abducted two landlords in the Asokoro extension area of the Federal Capital Territory last night, demanding a ransom of N20 million for their release. According to reports, the armed assailants used one of the landlords as a tool to gain access to the victims. Witnesses recounted that the gunmen held one of the […]
•Gunmen Despite the security measures being put in place by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), kidnapping activities tend to be on the rise in and around the nation’s capital. Our reporter examines some of these measures, viz-s-viz the number of incidents, especially at the rural communities recently, reports Daily Trust. In ...
•NANS protest Warring factions of the National Association of Nigerian Students have stormed the National Hospital, Abuja today, in protest over alleged delay by medical personnel in treating their colleagues who were injured during a NANS factional crisis earlier yesterday. Several patients have been forced to flee their hospital wards and be...
•An oil refinery warehouse Officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and operatives of security personnel today Thursday, November 30, uncovered an illegal oil refining warehouse in Mabushi, opposite the Mobile filling station on Ahmadu Bello way in Abuja. The Director of the Department of Development Control, FCTA, Mukh...
•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...
•FMC inspection by Reps panel The House of Representatives Committee on Health Institutions has vowed to take necessary steps to reverse the brain drain in the health sector and the medical tourism to reduce the outflow of Nigerians seeking medical care abroad and doctors travelling outside the country to seek greener pastures. The committee h...
•The protesters at Abuja airport Many top government officials, their armed escorts, business guests and hundreds of other Nigerians have been prevented from entering the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja. As of 9.15 am when our correspondent approached the vicinity of the Airport, scores of vehicles carrying stranded air passengers r...
Fire has broken out at the High Commission of Canada to Nigeria in Abuja’s Central Business District. Confirming the incident, the Head of Operations of the FCT Fire Service, Amiola Adebayo, told our correspondent in a phone interview that two people were fatally injured in the incident, while about three or four other victims had […]
Not fewer than eight persons, among them students, were crushed to death when a tipper conveying sharp sand suffered break failure in Mpape, a settlement close to the Maitama District of Abuja. The incident, it was gathered, occurred yesterday around 4 p.m. before the Keke NAPEP Park along the road that leads to Mpape junction, […]
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