An Ebute Meta Magistrates Court in Lagos on Tuesday, January 31, ordered the remand of auto dealer Ikechukwu Daryl Ogbonna, popularly known as IVD, over the death of his wife, Abimbola Martins-Ogbonna. Magistrate Adebayo Kafayat Tella made the order following advice by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Lagos State, which indicted Ogbonna for involuntary…
Gunmen on Wednesday morning, February 1, attacked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC office in Ojoto, Idemili South Local Government Area. The gunmen who were armed with dangerous weapons including petrol bombs, also attacked a Police Station in Nnobi, in the same local government area, and a residential building inside the station, where they killed…
The Nigerian Nationa Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has assured the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that petrol will be available during the general election. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu had lamented that the unavailability of petrol might affect the election. He visited the NNPC towers in Abuja on Tuesday to discuss the availability of petrol during…
Abdulwab Babankanti, the Jos reporter of the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), alongside three of his friends have been abducted on the Bauchi-Jos highway. A family source who confirmed the incident said Babankanti and other victims were abducted on Monday, January 30, 2023, at Toro community while on transit from Bauchi to Jos. ”We got to…
The Emir of Dutse in Jigawa Alhaji Dr Nuhu Muhammad Sunusi has passed on at the age of 78. The monarch died at an Abuja hospital on Tuesday, January 31, after a brief illness. The Special Adviser to the Governor, Alhaji Habibu Nuhu KIla who confirmed the Emir’s death, described him as a humble, religious…
THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, has warned that the Federal Government can play politics with anything they like but not with the life of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, whose health it described as deteriorating. The pro-Biafra group said the Department of States Services, DSS, claim that the alarm being raised by IPoB that…
President Muhamamdu Buhari has revealed that foreign powers are behind Nigeria’s problems. According to him, powerful countries are bent on destroying Nigeria with insecurity. Giotv reported that Buhari made the assertion on Monday in Kano at a presidential lunch after his tour around the state to commission projects by the administration of Governor Ganduje. According…
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele has said that banks in the country will continue to accept the old Naira notes after the stipulated deadline. Speaking during an interactive session with the house of representatives ad hoc committee on the currency redesign and Naira swap policy on Tuesday, January 31, Emefiele stated that…
Lagos state governor, Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, has directed the state Ministry of Justice and relevant authorities to commence the trial of the owner and driver of the container-laden truck that fell a commercial bus on Ojuelegba Bridge, Surulere area of the state, last Sunday, January 29. The truck fell on the commercial bus with registration…
Nigerian economic experts have reacted to the arrest of persons said to be members of syndicates intercepted selling the new naira notes amid the suffering experienced by Nigerians over the currency’s scarcity nationwide. On Monday, Nigeria’s secret security, the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said they busted…