A retired principal has been detained by bandits while delivering ransom in Kaduna. Senator Shehu Sani disclosed this on his X handle this morning January 16. He said that the retired principal volunteered to help deliver the ransom to the kidnappers who were holding their victims in Birnin Gwari in Kaduna state. The Senator…
The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has said the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, should have sold the Port Harcourt refinery to avoid debt. Atiku was reacting to the decision of NNPCL to hand over the Port Harcourt refinery to a private firm to operate and maintain. He noted…
FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has given directives to security agencies to clamp down on criminal elements vandalising streetlights in the nation’s capital. Dr Peter Olumuji, Secretary, Command and Control Centre, Department of Security, Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Abuja on Monday. On assumption of duty as…
Inflation has continued to rise, according to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics. NBS said inflation closed at a 21-year high of 28.92 per cent. In December 2023, Nigeria’s headline inflation rate rose to 28.92 per cent from 28.20 per cent in November 2023. This signified a 0.72 percentage point increase when…
The Code of Conduct Bureau has invited the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, over the involvement of his company in an alleged N438m contract scam uncovered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. The CCB has commenced an investigation into the alleged breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers by the…
Kidnappers who abducted 10 people from Sagwari Estate Layout at Dutse in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on January 7, 2024, and killed three, have increased the ransom for the release of others in their custody to N700 million. Leadership reports that after killing some of the kidnap victims, the…
President Bola Tinubu is celebrating his friend and confidant, Chief Bisi Akande, as he clocks 85 birthday on January 16, 2024. Akande was the governor of Osun State from 1999 to 2003 and the first interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement, he personally signed and released by his…
A Ghanaian national identified as Patrick Amenuvor embarked on a “Stand-a-thon” to break the Guinness World Record for longest standing by an individual. His intention was to stand in a place without sitting for 7 days, from January 14 to January 21, 2024. However, he called off his GWR stand-a-thon attempt a few hours…
The PUNCH reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria is preparing to relocate certain departments to Lagos State. This was stated in an Internal memo made available to PUNCH Online on Saturday. The move, according to an official of the CBN who spoke on condition of anonymity, is to decongest the apex bank’s head…
Ex-Osun State Governor, Adebisi Akande, has said successive administrations in Nigeria have failed to defeat corruption due to a “corrupt mindset” of Nigerians. Akande, who spoke to journalists in his Ila-Orangun country home on Saturday as part of activities marking his 85th birthday, said until Nigerians have a change of mindset and embrace the…