Author: Olabanji Ayoola

There is tension at Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, after a student was shot dead at a cafeteria on Thursday morning. It was leant that a group of suspected cultists had trailed the victim to a cafeteria near the faculty of management science about 9:20am, where one of the assailants brought out a gun and […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former Abia Governor, Sen. Theodore Orji and his son, Chinedu, over alleged N48 billion security votes. The two leaders are also expected to account for N2 billion Ecological Fund and conversion of Sure-P funds. While the ex-Governor was intercepted at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in […]

The Police Service Commission has set up an in-house panel to study in details documents related to the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari, a former head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Nigeria Police Force indicted by a Report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. Spokesman […]

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has said a trust fund would be set up to take care of the 3% allocated for the host communities to avert any crisis that may arise in the implementation of the just-assented Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). Akpabio, who addressed newsmen at a briefing organised by the […]

Nigeria lost an estimated $50 billion worth of investments in 10 years, due to the uncertainty surrounding the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), lack of progress and stagnation in the petroleum industry. President Muhammadu Buhari lamented this loss on Wednesday, at the presidential villa, Abuja during his remarks at a ceremony on the […]

Against the backdrop of a report on Thursday by military authorities that Boko Haram insurgents are surrendering in the Northeast in large numbers, owing to reported relentless onslaught on them by the security agencies, President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to do whatever it takes to ensure that he does not leave the country in security […]

The family of late Mohammed Fawehinmi, on Thursday, said he died of complications from COVID-19 infection. The younger brother of the deceased, Mr Saheed Fawehinmi, who spoke on behalf of the family, disclosed this at a news briefing at his residence, Fani Kayode Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos State. Fawehinmi said the family could not immediately […]

The House of Representatives has expressed displeasure over the way some government agencies conceal their revenues, thereby denying the Federal Government the fund for budgeting. It criticises the way the country resorts to borrowing N5.62 trillion to finance deficit in the 2022 budget, while these agencies starve the government of fund. Chairman, House Committee on […]

Smarting from some reported success recorded in the onslaught against insurgents, terrorists and bandits, the security chiefs are meeting today with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to give him briefings on the nation’s security situation report. Some members of the groups who have been unleashing violence on people in some parts of […]