Abia State Police, has confirmed the arrest of the General Overseer of the Agape Evangelical Ministry, Bishop Timothy Otu, over the death of a female evangelist, Mrs Happiness Echieze, in a hotel in Aba. Police Public Relations Officer, Abia State command, ASP Maureen Chinaka, explained that Otu had checked into a hotel in Obingwa council…
DSS, The Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday allowed the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, access to his second preferred personal medical doctor. Kanu’s lead counsel, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who made this known in a statement on Thursday said the detained IPOB leader was attended to by an…
NNPCL, The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has secured a $3 billion crude repayment loan to support the naira and stabilise the foreign exchange market, a terse statement posted on the official account of the company on X (formerly known as Twitter) said on Wednesday. The statement noted that the oil company secured the funding…
NDIC, The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, Thursday, hinted that directors of the recently closed 183 microfinance banks, MfBs and Primary Mortgage Banks, PMBs, will soon be investigated for their roles in the collapse of their institutions. Managing Director/ Chief Executive, NDIC, Bello Hassan disclosed this in Lagos at a workshop organised by the Corporation…
Kebbi CP, Kebbi State Commissioner of Police, Titus Musa, on Thursday at the state police headquarters in Birnin Kebbi decorated no fewer than 158 police officers from the ranks of Inspectors to Superintendents of Police. In a statement issued by the Command’s image maker, SP Nafiu Abubakar, the decoration was in line with the police…
ECOWAS force, Troops of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, have said they are ready to participate in a standby force that could intervene in the Republic of Niger. After the coupists seized power from President Mohamed Bazoum, ECOWAS issued a seven-day ultimatum to the military to restore the president or risk sanctions,…
Defence Headquarters, on Thursday, said 36 soldiers, including the two pilots of the MI 171 helicopter, and two crew members, were killed in Niger State on Monday. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major-General Edward Buba, stated this when he gave a breakdown of casualties in the ambush of troops in Zungeru and the August 14…
Oluwo of Iwoland, His Imperial Majesty, Oba (Dr) Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has expressed confidence that the former governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola will transform the transportation system of the country. Oba Akanbi said this in a statement on Thursday while congratulating Oyetola as the Minister-designate of Transport. Recall that President Bola Tinubu assigned portfolios…
N10 million bribery allegation that hit the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kano, the Kano State Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA has called on the Tribunal to unmask and reveal identity of lawyers involved in the act. It was gathered that the Presiding judge of the Tribunal,…
Breaking News: Men of Operation Delta Safe, OPDS, have arrested three suspected crude oil thieve and seized a vessel and two tankers used in carrying out illegal activities in Rivers State. The OPDS operatives seized the vessel used by oil thieves to store their products at the moment in Port Harcourt and arrested one suspected…
