Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso quit ECOWAS regional block
Jan. 28, 2024 Three West African junta-led states Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso said on Sunday they are immediately leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional…
UN vows to punish staffers involved in ‘terror’ acts
Jan. 28, 2024 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres vowed on Sunday to hold to account “any U.N. employee involved in acts of terror” after allegations that some refugee agency staffers…
IED explosion kills six pupils in Borno
Jan. 28, 2024 Six pupils of the Tsangaya Quranic Centre in Gubio town have been killed by an Improvised Explosive Device which exploded near the Tsangaya in the Gubio Local…
Kidnapping: Police destroy bandits’ camp, arrest suspect for kidnap, gruesome murder of Bwari lady, Nabeeha in Kaduna
Jan. 28, 2024 …As IGP Commends DPO for Rejecting 1m Naira Inducement The operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, on 20th January 2024, have arrested one Bello Mohammed, 28, of…
Brazil returnee feigns sickness to evade arrest, excretes 60 wraps of cocaine in custody
Jan. 28, 2024 …As NDLEA seizes 599,900 tramadol pills from Pakistan Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Brazil returnee, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus at the…
NDLEA declares ex-beauty queen wanted for dealing in illicit drugs
Jan. 28, 2024 Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have declared an ex-beauty queen, Ms. Aderinoye Queen Christmas also known as Ms. Queen Oluwadamilola Aderinoye after she…
Wholesale Abductions Incorporated: A Guide for Safety
Monday Philips Ekpe suggests that citizens’ deliberate self-help is inevitable in the face of government’s seeming powerlessness Even instances that should ordinarily elicit hope in the thick, dark clouds that…
Transparency: EITI Rates NNPC Ltd High in Compliance
Kyari Insists No Public Fund Withheld Global transparency body, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), has scored the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) very high in its latest global…
Delta emerges Nigeria’s safest state for oil & gas investments
Delta State has won the safest state award for Oil and Gas investments in the country at the Nigeria Oil & Gas Forum and award night. The award ceremony…
Maida @ NCC: When the man meets the moment, by Ken Ugbechie
The new gaffer at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida, was a 13-year-old lad in 1992 when telecom industry was deregulated in Nigeria by the then military President,…