The abductors of the wife and housemaid of the former Chief of Staff to the immediate past governor, Samuel Ortom, Abigail Orbunde, and Patience Ogute, have demanded N100 million. This was disclosed by Tahav Argezua, a close ally of Terwase Read more…
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) has sealed a popular groceries and cosmetics supermarket, Pinnacle in Dugbe area of Ibadan over sale of fake products. The supermarket, usually a beehive of activities was now a shadow Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have reportedly murdered a former President General of Amansea community in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chief Cajetan Nwokike. The incident happened in the early hours of Thursday when the community Read more…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) is urgently calling for the immediate release of Joshua Rogers, a reporter with Channels TV, who was abducted from his residence in Rumuosi, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday night.Rogers was taken by unknown gunmen Read more…
The immediate past Director-General of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), Babatunde Irukera, has raised concerns about allegations of ‘predatory pricing’ by foreign airlines against Nigeria’s Air Peace. The accusations come as Air Peace recently commenced its Lagos-London Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor Anambra State Joint Security Force has extended its manhunt for criminals attacking security formations in the State to Ogbaru forest. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Anambra State command, Tochukwu Ikenga (SP) revealed this in a Read more…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has debunked as false, news making the rounds that one of its prosecutors was offered a bribe over the Malabu OPL 245 fraud case leading to the dismissal of the charges against a Read more…
The National Chairman of All Progressive Congress ( APC) who was a former Kano state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje along with his wife, son and six others are to be arraigned at a Kano High Court on 17th April Read more…
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of a Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted popular Nigerian cross dresser, Idris Okuneye alias Bobrisky, over mutilation of the Naira. The defendant is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) The court Read more…
An eleventh suspect has been put under arrest over the March 23 terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue, the press service of the Moscow criminal courts said in a statement on Friday. The man was charged with Read more…
Bandits who kidnapped 61 villagers at Budah Hausa Village in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State three weeks ago have killed five of the abductees. Fifty-one other victims, it was gathered, were released on Tuesday by their abductors after Read more…
The Labour Party (LP) has said the residence of its National Chairman, Julius Abure was gutted by fire on Wednesday. The party also claimed that there was an assassination attempt on Abure. The National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Read more…