An early morning fire, on Wednesday, razed the popular Roky Fella Night Club, located at Udoji Street, Kpirikpiri, Abakaliki, destroying property valued at millions of naira. The Ebonyi Chief Fire Officer, Mr Raphael Ibiam, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said he received a distress call about the incident around 6.30 am. Ibiam said that…
Six schoolgirls have died in a bus crash in the Free State, South Africa. The pupils of Riebeeckstad High School were killed when the bus they were traveling in overturned on the R70 between Ventersburg and Senekal in the Free State on Tuesday, February 6, 2024. The incident involves approximately 58 female learners from an…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately sack the Governor of the Central Bank, Dr Olayemi Cardoso, and appoint a competent and accountable hand with the requisite expertise and performance metrics. The students’ body which expressed deep concerns over the apparent lack of technical understanding exhibited…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has frozen an account belonging to Abubakar Ahmad Sirika, brother of immediate-past minister Hadi Sirika, over an alleged N8.06 billion contract fraud in the Federal Ministry of Aviation. According to The Nation, the anti-graft agency made this known after the arrest of Abubakar Sirika over contract fraud…
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has said that President Bola Tinubu has taken his game of blaming opposition parties in the country to the next level. Atiku said this on Tuesday in a statement signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe,…
Actor cum politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, has reacted to the high level of hardship currently witnessed by Nigerians in the country. The Labour Party, LP, chieftain in a post via his official X handle on Monday, alleged that the current hardship was “technically glitched” on Nigerians by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The…
The Tinubu-led Federal Government has extended the suspension of commercial flights between Nigeria and Niger Republic, adhering to a resolution by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This move comes in the aftermath of the political upheaval in Niger Republic on July 26, 2023, where a military coup led by General Abdourrahamane…
Apostle Theophilus Oloche Ebonyi, the General Overseer of Faith On The Rock Ministry International, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The clergyman was accused of defrauding unsuspecting church members and other Nigerians to the tune of N1, 319,040,274.31(One Billion Three Hundred and Nineteen Million, Forty Thousand, Two Hundred and…
Reno Omokri has called out former President Bola Tinubu, accusing him of causing Nigeria’s worsening insecurity. Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck said that Nigeria is suffering from worsened insecurity because the past administration of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari failed to rearrest terrorists who were illegally freed from prison. Recall that on Tuesday, July 5,…
Olayemi Cardoso, the Central Bank Governor, has disclosed that the planned relocation of departments and personnel to other branches was due to the current “overpopulation” at the headquarters. Cardoso stated this in an interview with Arise Television on Monday. According to him, the move was to align the bank’s structure with its functions and…