The Lagos State Government says it will arrest and prosecute the ring leaders who rented out illegal apartments to Dolphin Bridge, Ikoyi tenants. This is according to the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, who disclosed this on Friday at the ongoing 2024 Ministerial Press briefing […]
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Tinubu aims for higher gas production, revealing new plants in Delta and Imo.
President Bola Tinubu will commission three critical gas infrastructure projects undertaken by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and its partners. The gas infrastructure projects are the AHL Gas Processing Plant 2 in Delta State, the ANOH Gas Processing Plant, and the ANOH-OB3 CTMS Gas Pipeline Projects in Imo State. […]
Yahaya Bello: Kogi Court Summons EFCC Chair Over Alleged Contempt
The Court of Appeal, Abuja division on Friday, issued an order stopping the contempt suit filed by the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Mr Yahaya Bello, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Recall that Bello had filed a fundamental human rights suit against the EFCC to protect himself […]
Nigerian governors praise journalists on World Press Freedom Day.
Nigerian governors have commended journalists for their commitment to the tenets of the profession as they mark the 2024 World Press Freedom Day. The theme for this year’s event wass, ”A press for the planet: Journalism in the face of environmental crisis. Every year on May 3, World Press Freedom […]
Delta Police Nab 24-Year-Old Woman For Abandoning Daughter In Well
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Abaniwonda Olufemi said operatives in the state have arrested a 24-year-old woman, Sofia Nkwor for dumping her one year and a month old baby in a well along the Araya Community’s road in Isoko South Local Government Area. CP Olufemi disclosed this at a press […]
Court remands Activist Mojekwu over N20bn fraud allegation against Benue govt
The Chief Magistrate Court 1 in Makurdi, Benue State, has remanded a civil rights activist and secretary of the Global Integrity Crusade Network, GICN, Mr Uchenna Mojekwu in prison over allegations of N20 billion fraud involving Dr. Dennis Akura, the Special Adviser to Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, on Bureau […]
Man shot dead during fuel queue tumult in Lagos.
The family of a young man, Toheeb Eniasa, has been thrown into mourning after he was shot at a petrol station belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited at Obalende in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The incident, our correspondent learnt, happened late Wednesday and has left residents […]
Ohanaeze Youths Hand Security Agencies 7-Day Ultimatum to Fish out Nimbo Massacre.
The Youth Wing of Ohaneze Ndigbo on Wednesday gave the Nigeria Police Force and other sister security agencies a seven-day ultimatum to fish out the perpetrators of the massacre of people of Nimbo in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State. Recall that Fulani Herdsmen had allegedly attacked the […]
Nigeria’s electricity grid collapsed 105 times in 10 years – TCN
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that the nation recorded 105 cases of grid collapse from 2015 till date. The TCN General Manager Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement posted on the company’s X handle on Wednesday. In recent times, the TCN has reported cases […]
Man arrested for giving underage daughter’s hand in marriage.
The Anambra State Government has arrested one Uzochukwu Okoli for giving out his underage daughter’s hand in marriage. Okoli was apprehended after his daughter reported to the state Ministry of Women and Social Welfare about the ill-treatment being meted out to her by her father and the man he forced […]