A presenter with Ibadan-based private radio station, Fresh FM Nigeria, popularly known as Baba Bintin, has died after he slumped on his way to the radio station for his program on Saturday. Baba Bintin’s death was announced during a radio program by the station on Saturday. “I’m finding it very difficult to believe this story…
Abia State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has expressed dismay over the failure of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to issue a categorical statement on the use or otherwise of old naira notes. The NUJ made its position known through a communique it issued at the end of its monthly congress held…
LVictims involved in an accident along the Abuja-Kaduna highway were rescued by personnel of FRSC on Friday. The accident involved two trailers and a commercial bus. See the pictures below
Many persons are feared dead while several persons are injured after a train and a staff bus belonging to the Lagos state government collided at Fajuyi Adekunle way in the Ikeja area of Lagos state today March 9. It is however not clear how the accident happened. Photos and videos shared online showed some…
Fire gutted Akere Spare Parts Market in Olodi-Apapa, Ajegunle, Lagos. The fire started at about 3am today, March 8, and continued for hours. It led to the destruction of properties worth several millions of naira. Videos from the scene show traders arriving early this morning and using buckets of water to try to quench the…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, says 203 suspects have been arrested for committing various electoral offenses during the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The police chief disclosed this during a meeting with Strategic Police Managers comprising Deputy Inspectors-General of Police and members of the Force Management Team, Assistant Inspectors-General of…
Bandits have killed SP Kazeem Raheem, a Divisional Police Officer in Maru town, headquarters of Maru local government area of Zamfara state. Raheem was killed alongside a vigilante identified as Shehu Chuka and a police sergeant, Rabiu Bagobiri, said to be an orderly to a former chairman of Maru LGA. A resident, who craved…
Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski was sentenced by a court in Minsk on Friday, March 3 to 10 years in a maximum-security prison, Russia state news agency TASS reports. He was found guilty on the charge of smuggling, according to TASS. Germany called the 10-year prison term an attack by the Minsk government…
The Supreme Court has ruled that the old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes remain valid and should be in circulation till December 31, 2023. In a ruling delivered today March 3, the apex court also nullified the Federal Government’s naira redesign policy, declaring it as an affront to the 1999 Constitution. Justice Emmanuel Agim who…
A Nigerian man checked for the results gathered from a polling unit in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state after the Presidential elections conducted last Saturday, February 25, and was shocked to see the photo of an INEC adhoc staff instead. This has been witnessed by a number of Nigerians. Watch the video below: