Niger PM says Benin’s oil export blockade violates accords
May 12, 2024 Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine says Benin’s blockade of Niger’s oil exports, imposed in response to a border closure, violated trade agreements between the two…
Police arrest man for allegedly abducting, killing cousin in Kaduna
May 12, 2024 The Police Command in Kaduna State said Its operatives have arrested a suspected kidnapper who allegedly abducted his cousin sister and killed her after she recognised him….
Alleged defamation: Businessman sues Arise Media, journalist for N5bn
A businessman, Alhaji Ibrahim Egungbohun, has filed a N5 billion suit against a journalist, Fisayo Soyombo; Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) and Arise Media Group, over allegations bordering on defamation….
Adamawa: Customs intercepts petrol worth N10.8m en route Cameroon
May 12, 2024 The Adamawa/Taraba command of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) says it has recently seized 12,435 liters of petrol worth N10.8 million. The Customs Area Comptroller in charge…
Gas explosion: 11 confirmed dead, Lagos govt picks bills of 22 survivors
Lagos State Government says it will foot the medical expenses of the victims of the recent tragic gas explosion in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government area of the state. The state’s…
JTF uncovers 50 illegal refining sites at Biseni forest in Bayelsa
May 12, 2024 The Joint Military Task Force, Operation Delta Safe, has uncovered no fewer than 50 illegal refining sites within the Biseni forests in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Bayelsa….
World’s first man with pig kidney transplant dies 2 months after
The world’s first patient with a transplanted pig kidney has died, almost two months after the operation. In March, Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted the genetically-edited pig kidney into Rick Slayman,…
NAFDAC shutdown illegal alcohol factory in Badagry
May 12, 2024 The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has shutdown an illegal alcohol factory in Badagry. The agency, in a statement on Sunday in…
NDLEA intercepts 3 trailer loads of opioids; arrests grandpa, grandma
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted three trailer loads of opioids comprising three million four hundred and fifty thousand (3,450,000) pills and three hundred and…
N100bn Enugu agro project: LP alleges fraud, asks anti-graft agencies to probe deal with Pragmatic Farms
The Enugu State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has called on Nigeria’s anticorruption agencies to investigate the agriculture partnership agreement recently signed between the Enugu State Government and Pragmatic…