Zamfara State Government has announced that it has started a process of restoring telecommunications services in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Magaji Dosara said Governor Matawalle’s directive for telecommunications services to be restored is on course. Dosara who asked residents of the state to exercise more patience stated that the request for the restoration…
A traffic robber arrested by the Decoy Team of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) in a sting operation around Otedola Bridge and Ojodu – Berger, last week Friday, November 26, has disclosed that his father fortified him with charms before leaving the village for Lagos. The convicted robber, Samuel Adetomi (18) was arrested at Otedola Bridge…
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has suspended its planned strike, weeks after issuing an ultimatum to the federal government over issues including non-payment of workers’ salaries and title benefits. Williams Akporeha, NUPENG president, and Afolabi Olawale, general secretary of the union confirmed the suspension in a statement released on Thursday, December…
Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has addressed the Lekki Tollgate shootings on October 20, 2020, stating that it is premature to say that live bullets were fired at unarmed protesters. The Lagos state panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality and EndSARS in its report released on November 15, described the…
A High Court in Port Harcourt on Wednesday remanded a suspected fake lawyer, Stanley Atjogbe, in police custody. Atjogbe was said to have been practising for over 10 years in Rivers State without being caught. The court remanded Ajogbe at the request of the chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, Port Harcourt branch, Prince Nyekwere….
A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) headquarters in Kano state, located along Maiduguri road in Kano metropolis, and less than three kilometres from a mobile police barrack at Hotoro area in Tarauni Local Government Area, has been set on fire. The building which was set ablaze, housed the head office of the factional…
1,137 fresh HIV infections have been recorded in Sokoto State between January 2020 and September 2021. Mr Muhammad Garba, the Acting State Coordinator of Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN), Sokoto State Chapter, disclosed this at a press conference in commemoration of 2021 World AIDS Day (WAD) on Wednesday in Sokoto. Garba said the…
Terrorist group, Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) have abducted at least five staff of Borno State Ministry of Works. According to Daily Trust, the victims, who were supervising the construction of Chibok-Damboa road, were abducted on Wednesday morning, December 1, near Wovi, a remote village in Chibok Local Government Area. A top official…
Eighteen suspected illegal oil bunkers have been apprehended by the operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. They were arrested on Monday, November 29, 2021 in a location within the new Government Reservation Area, G.R.A, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The suspects are: Thompson George; Asu Tommy; John…
Abubakar Malami, the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) has stated that the issue of pardoning Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, is premature. The AGF said this while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday December 1. According to him, the…