Nigeria’s fuel scarcity worsened Tuesday across many cities, as many struggled to go to work or engage in other daily routines. The crisis has led to increased cost of transportation, and many people were left stranded at various bus stops on Tuesday as workers returned from work and students returned from schools. This happened as […]
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A traditional ruler said 47 villages in Mutumji are under the control of bandits while villages that chose not to pay them protection levy have relocated to neighbouring Kebbi and Niger states Six months after sacking a military base in the area, bandits have collected at least N40.7 million as protection levy from residents of […]
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Abba Kyari leading a set of police officers An extradition hammer hung over the head of Nigerian police detective Abba Kyari but the celebrity cop appears to have fallen into a deeper trouble with his arrest by the NDLEA for allegedly aiding and abetting drug trafficking. He was honoured by the House of Representatives in […]
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Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has launched a scathing attack on his erstwhile ally and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. Aregbesola, a former governor of Osun State, while addressing party loyalists in Ijebu-jesa on Monday, said he acquiesced to Tinubu’s handpicked candidate as his successor in 2018 because it was agreed […]
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EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, presented details of 24 properties worth N10.9 billion forfeited to the Federal Government by a top military officer. The commission, however, did not give the name of the officer. Justice N.E. Maha of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had, on Monday, ordered the […]
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Paul Chinedu poses for a portrait in his shop in a market at Illaje Bariga, Lagos on June 29, 2021. – Since the start of the pandemic in 2019, food prices have risen by an average of more than 22%, according to official statistics, and feeding a family properly has become a daily challenge. (Photo […]
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In this file photo taken on March 13, 2015 Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales attends a reception at Guildhall following a memorial service to mark the end of Britain’s combat operations in Afghanistan in central London on March 13, 2015. – Britain’s Prince Charles said on November 8, 2018 he was not “stupid” enough […]
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Emefiele. Photo/TWwitter/GovWike pledges loyalty to Buhari, Nigerians Following unsolicited campaigns to see him emerge as one of the presidential candidates in the 2023 presidential election, and criticisms to distract him, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has said his major commitment at the moment is to assist President Muhammadu […]
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Tortuous from the onset, the long-running scandals involving a disgraced senior police officer, Abba Kyari, just got messier. From being indicted in 2021 for aiding the fraudster, Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, he has allegedly been caught red-handed and neck-deep in international drug trafficking by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and is finally […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ondo State Chapter, on Tuesday mourned the passage of its Senatorial Woman Leader in Ondo South Senatorial District, and former Chairman of Ile-Oluji/ Okeigbo Local Government, Mrs Yetunde Dada. A statement on Wednesday, by the party’s state spokesman, Mr Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, said that the party received the news of […]
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