A 98-year-old woman identified as Oyibo Ogidi has been murdered by unknown assailants in Ovoko, Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State. The decomposing body of the childless woman was discovered at her Amafor residence on Tuesday morning, February 9. The deceased’s nephew, Victor Onyeke, who confirmed the incident, said the woman was last…
Minister for Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has announced the original plans by the Federal government to issue a deadline for Nigerians to link their National Identity Numbers (NINs) with their bank accounts. Pantami disclosed this to newsmen after the Federal Executive Council meeting at the statehouse in Abuja. He disclosed that the NIN…
Following the recent ban on Cryptocurrency by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the Senate had just mandated its Committees on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, ICT and Cybercrimes and Capital Market to invite the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele to clarify controversies surrounding the ban of bank accounts linked to bitcoin. Also to appear…
A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Olusegun Bamgbose has lambasted a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, over reports of his move to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC. It’s no longer a rumour that Fani-Kayode is about to defect to APC any moment from…
A 65-year-old farmer Alfa Sikiru Akinlotan has been found dead on his farm. Akintola was found dead after his cocoa plantation in Igangan community in Ibarapa area of Oyo state was set ablaze by unknown arsonists on Wednesday, February 10. It is believed that he died while trying to put out the fire. Confirming the…
Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timpire Sylva, made this known to the public at the launch of the Nigerian Upstream Cost Optimisation Programme in Abuja on Tuesday. Speaking at the conference, Sylva said; “Since we are optimizing everything, NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) needs to also think about the optimization of product cost…
Federal government has said security agencies are ready to stop another version of the #EndSARS protests at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed, who made the announcement, said any protest to block the toll gate would not be tolerated. According to the minister, protests are constitutionally…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), South West Zone has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare the Miyetti Allah Castle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) as a terrorist group, threatening to unleash terror on killer Fulani herdsmen in the region. The association said this was as a result of the alleged killings, kidnapping,…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has said that the owner of the cows that strayed into Prof. Wole Soyinka’s house was a Yoruba man. The group said this while suggesting to the Federal Government to ensure that cow owners in the country are registered in order to hold them accountable. In a statement signed by…
A clash between rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, has left the Obalende area of Lagos State in pandemonium. The clash broke out on Thursday morning. Residents are scampering for safety as gunshots are heard. Several properties are said to have been destroyed, while scores reportedly sustained injuries. As of…