THE suspected Ibadan serial killer, Sunday Shodipe, has been rearrested by operatives of the Oyo State police command. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the development to the Tribune Online. SP Fadeyi said: “The suspect has been rearrested and is currently in police custody.” Shodipe (19), who is suspected to have killed about six women at …
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has called on the Federal Government to shelve alleged plans to scrap the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) for ex-agitators in the Niger Delta region. This comes as he charged people in the region to come up with a new narrative about holding leaders in the region to account. Senator Omo-Agege spoke …
By Nduka Chiejina (Assistant Editor) The Debt Management Office (DMO) has vowed to deal with any of its staff responsible for leaking official documents. According to a statement issued Saturday evening, the DMO said it “will brief relevant security agencies in the country to thoroughly investigate the sources of the documents”. The reason for involving security agencies, the DMO said, …
After spending four days in captivity, the brother of the Kogi State Chairman, Social Democratic Party, SDP, Mumuni Atimah who was kidnapped by unknown gunmen has been released. Atimah, according to DAILY POST, was kidnapped on Wednesday at about 5:30 pm in Quari site Okene. Atimah was reported to have been abducted by six armed gunmen w fully armed. Confirming …
United States, on Thursday night in the ninth evacuation flight from America to join friends and families back home. This is the final repatriation flight planned by the Nigerian Government for stranded citizens in the U.S due to the Coronavirus outbreak. It came barely 24 hours after the eighth flight in which 94 Nigerians were evacuated from Houston, Texas. Six …
By Tony Akowe and Victor Oluwasegun, Abuja Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has denied removing any project or inserting any project to the 2019 budget of the commission. Tunji-Ojo, who was reacting to allegation by the Executive Director, Project of the Interim Management Committee, Cairo Ojuogoh, described it as …
As the nation prepares for the resumption of international flights, the Federal government on Thursday disclosed that it would reduce the number of passengers arriving the country to 1280. According to the government, the partial reopening of international flights would commence from August 29 from the Lagos and Port Harcourt airport. The Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Captain …
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Rapist of babies in Nasarawa will regret – Gov Sule The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has stated that the man who raped a three-year-old girl and others will be punished severely. He spoke on Thursday in Lafia during the inauguration of the State Action Plan (SAP) on the United Nations Security Council Resolution on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR …
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has revealed that commercial banks are owing telecommunications companies over N17 billion The debt was accrued following the regulator’s suspension of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) Pricing last year. The NCC, in the interests of consumers, had recently revised the Determination on the USSD. The amendment …
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reacted to “ugly reports of violence” in Edo ahead of the September 19 governorship election in the state. The INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who spoke on Wednesday during an on-the-spot assessment of its preparedness for the August 8 bye-election in Nasarawa State, said the reports from Edo had been disturbing. READ ALSO: BREAK EVEN: DSS …
Ini Okopido, the Akwa Ibom State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been pronounced dead, POLITICS NIGERIA reports. it was gathered that Okopido died of multiple organ failure on Wednesday morning at the Ibom Multispecialty Hospital (IBH), Uyo. This news platform learned that the chairman is survived by his wife and children. “Yes, our state chairman is dead. …
The Deputy Speaker of the Edo state House of AssemblyAssembly has been impeached. Yekini Idiaye was impeached on Wednesday after declaring support for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the upcoming Guber elections, Osagie Ize-Iyamu. Idiaye is the lawmaker representing Akoko-Edo Constituency 1 in the assembly. The post BREAKINGBREAKING: Edo Deputy speaker Impeached after declaring support for …
The Department of state’s borders security services, DSS, has arrested Olawale Bakare and several other #RevolutionNow protesters in Ondo state. Bakare’s arrest is coming shortly after 46 protesters were arrested in Abuja by Military personnel. POLITICS NIGERIA learned that Bakare alongside several many others had converged at the Chapel when using the Nigeria Union of Journalists centred at Olaiya, …
The order comes barely 24 hours after the abandoned students protested at the Nigeria High Commission office in London. President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the payment of fees and stipends of stranded scholarship students of the Niger Delta Development Commission studying abroad. This was contained in a statement titled ‘NDDC invites President Buhari to Commission Signature Project’ and signed by …
WANTED: A PRESIDENT OF IGBO EXTRACTION One of the features of the British colonial system of administration in Africa was the lumping together of disparate ethnic entities under one administrative body for the rationale of political expedience and convenience. So, the onetime governor of colonial Nigeria, Lord Frederick Lugard, amalgamated the Northern and Southern protectorates of Nigeria. But, was the …
Our Rapid Response Team #NCDCRRT is supporting the Cross River State health team in the investigation of suspected #COVID19 outbreaks & decontamination of facilities in affected areas in the state Read ‘Guidelines for the Safe Management of #COVID19 Remains’: https://covid19.ncdc.gov.ng/media/files/MgtOfDeadBodies_elVIwls.pdf
Vigilante arrested the suspect on the Delta Police Wanted List Udu Central Guard “A” arrested a wanted criminal on Sunday night who has been on the watch list of the security agency for the past three years. The suspect was identified as Oke Olodi Acha, also known as Sharp. The 30-year-old suspect was arrested in Asjam, in Dulu, Udu District, …
Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Saturday ordered reopening of worship centres, including mosques and churches within the state with effect from August 7, saying positive cases of COVID-19 pandemic had reduced within the state. The government had shut worship centres within the state as a part of its efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic within the …
