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…
Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has commended Google’s N1.2 billion grant initiative for the President Tinubu administration’s one million jobs initiative. Shettima made the commendation when he received in the audience some executives of Google, a leading global technology company, at the Presidential Villa, on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, the announcement of a grant…
Crypto exchange Binance is shutting down its fiat-to-crypto payment platform Binance Connect, according to reports. The move comes over a year after the platform launched in March 2022, originally named Bifinity. Binance Connect will officially shut down on Aug. 16. “We periodically review our products and services to ensure that our resources continue to be focused…
Mavins Records former signee Hadiza Blell aka DiJa has debunked the speculations that she ditched her label boss, Don Jazzy. The 39-year-old mentioned this following a question from a fan on Twitter now called X app on Monday. The fan had asked why the singer left Don Jazzy, speculating that Di’Ja would have been a bigger…
The universal shortage of organs for transplantation has made organ trafficking and harvesting popular in Nigeria. Today is World Organ Donation Day hence it is important to shine the light on illegal ways of getting organs for sick people. Nigeria’s black market for kidneys is booming due to hypertension and renal failure, which affect 20…
Students from the University of Benin (UNIBEN) have orchestrated a mock wedding that has taken the virtual world by storm. Videos capturing the mock wedding, shared on social media platform TikTok by a user with the handle @kristabel.mma, have swiftly gone viral, leaving netizens astonished by the attention to detail and dedication exhibited by the young event planners. The…
A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Kingsley Moghalu, and his wife, Maryanne, have been rescued from an elevator. The duo were stuck in an elevator for 30 minutes on Monday. Maryanne, who shared the incident on her Twitter page, thanked God for saving their lives. Biafra: IPOB begins distribution of…
