With four days left to the end of the relocation of electricity infrastructure that led to power rationing in Abuja, the city is once again threatened with another bout of blackout as vandals steal cables supplying 60 percent of electricity to the city. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in a statement on Friday stated…
Kastina Police Command said on Thursday that it arrested a man with 15 AK-47 rifle magazines. He was arrested by operatives attached to the Funtua Area Command who were on routine patrol along the Zaria-Funtua highway. The Command said the man confessed to the operatives that he planned to sell them for the sum of…
Northern governors have said that their initial rejection of the Tax Reform Bill was based on the misinformation that the bills would result in additional financial burden on states The Governor of Nassarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, said northern governors were misled into believing that the proposed tax reform bills of the Bola Tinubu administration would…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has ruled that Julius Abure remains the National Chairman of the Labour Party. A three-member panel of the appellate court, in a judgment delivered on Friday by Justice Hamma Barka, upheld its earlier judgment of November 13, 2024, which recognises Abure as National Chairman. The court confirmed that this…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has communicated an upward adjustment in the price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, to its customers. In an email statement obtained by our Correspondent on Friday, the refinery announced that its refined products would now be priced at N955 per litre at the loading gantry, marking an adjustment…
The Nigeria Police Force has approved the suspension of Assistant Inspector General of Police (ΑIG) Abduyari Shuaya’u Lafia from duty with effect from January 9, 2025. In a wireless message addressed to all departments, units and commands, signed by the Force Secretary, the Force Headquarters warned the officer to adhere strictly to the rules and…
A kidnapper has revealed how he earned N550 million from just three kidnapping operations in Kaduna State. The confession was shared in a post that quickly gained traction on X (formerly Twitter). In a translated video, he disclosed that he earned N200 million from his first operation, N50 million from the second, and N300 million…
A Minna High Court in Niger State on Wednesday, sentenced a woman, Amina Aliyu and her sister, Aishat Mohammed to death by hanging for the brutal k!lling of her co-wife, Hafsat Fatima Aliyu (pictured left). Zainab, the youngest sibling, received life imprisonment due to her age at the time of the crime. Amina and Aishat…
The apex socio-cultural group of the Ikwerre ethnic nationality, Ogbakor Ikwerre Cultural Organisation Worldwide, has withdrawn all honours, recognitions, and titles bestowed on Senator John Azuta-Mbata, the newly elected President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. The decision was made due to Azuta-Mbata’s acceptance of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo leadership role, which the Ikwerre leadership considers a…
Former Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro, has disclosed that a non-existing court order prevented him from partaking in the just concluded Ohaneze Ndi-Igbo president general position. Okiro, an aspirant for the position of President-General of the pan Igbo socio-cultural organization made the disclosure while speaking with journalists recently after the election, explaining that the…
