Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Most EU capitals back former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to lead the World Trade Organisation, sources said Monday, but she has yet to receive unanimous backing. The 66-year was her country’s first woman to hold the finance portfolio, between 2011 and 2015, and also has a long career as a development economist …

The police command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)has arrested 51 suspected looters and recovered some stolen items at Jabi-Daki-biu, Idu Industrial Estate Karim area. FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr Bala Ciroma, made the disclosure at a news conference on Monday in Abuja. Ciroma explained that the operation that led to the arrest was necessitated …

…Mambila Power Project Not Captured In 2021 Budget …There is no hope In Steady Power Supply, Senators By Henry Umoru THE Senate, Monday said that the Federal Government did not allocated a Kobo to Mambila Power Project in the 2021 Budget The Mambila Power Project was designed to help improve power generation and supply in Nigeria. …

By Shina Abubakar The Executive Secretary of Osun Health Insurance Scheme (OHIS), Dr Samuel Oginni on Monday disclosed that hoodlums looted and vandalised N120million worth of drugs and equipment belonging to the agency Addressing a Press Conference after assessing the extent of damage perpetrated at the agency by hoodlums during a raid of its headquarters …

El-Zakzaky …as son pleads for parents release By Ibrahim HassanWuyo As rumor spread that the curfew imposed on Kaduna state was to prevent the reaction on the purported death of   Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), otherwise known Shi’ites, have dispelled the rumour that their leader is dead. A statement issued …

…recover over 1000 chairs, Chillers, other items By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar The Cross River State Police Command on Monday said that it has arrested one Johnson Richard Inem, the mastermind of the looting and vandalisation of the Calabar International Conference Center, CICC at the weekend. The Command also disclosed that items including chillers, over 1000 pieces …

Hakeem Odumosu, Lagos State Commissioner of Police. By Bose Adelaja Following rampant looting of shops, malls and warehouses across the country, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, Monday, said trading on looted items is criminal and may be dangerous to perpetrators. He warned parents, community leaders and market women to be careful from …

Kayode Jelili Amusan By James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta A former member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon Kayode Jelili Amusan on Monday called on the federal government to seize the opportunity of the grievances of the youth against police brutality and other acts of bad governance to build a new Nigeria that prioritise good governance …

By Marie-Therese Nanlong Plateau State government has designates seven courts for the prosecution of the 307 suspects so far arrested at various locations where looting took place in Jos North and Jos South local government areas of the State. This is even as a truck with materials from the looted Plateau State Rural Water Supply and …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has “condemned the unconstitutional and illegal fines of N9m reportedly imposed by the National Broadcasting Commission [NBC] on Channels TV, AIT and Arise TV [N3m each] purportedly over their coverage of the #EndSARS protests.” The acting Director-General of the NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, announced at a press conference in …

Nigeria’s broadcasting regulatory body, The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission has fined Arise TV, AIT and Channels Television over what it termed unprofessional coverage of the #EndSARS protests that swept nationwide recently. ALSO READ: #ENDSARS Coverage: Why we fined AIT, Channels, Arise TV, N3m each ― NBC The announcement was made by the …

The Police in Jigawa have confirmed that hoodlums shot dead a Customs officer and injured one other in Ringim Local Government Area of the state. The Police Spokesman in the state, SP Abdu Jinjiri, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Dutse on Monday. Jinjiri said the hoodlums allegedly attacked the officers while on routine patrol …

By: Abayomi Adeshida An Abuja Widow, Mrs Dayo Odunlami has appealed to the Federal Government to compel its security agencies to fish out those who murdered her husband in cold blood while on the line of duty as a law-abiding citizen and without any provocation. The bereaved Mrs Odunlami who was once a Confidential Secretary …

•Prof Armstrong Idachaba, acting Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, By Emmanuel Elebeke The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has sanctioned major broadcast stations for violating broadcasting code during the #ENDSARS protest. They include: Channels Television, African Independent Television and Arise TV; all fined N3m each. The decision was announced on Monday by the acting …

By Luminous Jannamike Two women died on Monday in a vicious struggle for COVID-19 palliatives looted by hoodlums in a warehouse on the Secretariat road in Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja. Vanguard correspondent learnt that many people were stabbed, some fainted in the commotion, while several others were injured during the struggle. The palliatives were said …

*As YWC changes name to Ilana Omo Oodua By Gabriel Olawale The umbrella body of all Yoruba socio-cultural and self-determination group within and outside Nigeria, Ilana Omo Oodua, formerly known as the Yoruba World Congress, YWC, has said that the quest for Yoruba Nation self-determination is non-negotiable. Speaking during stakeholders’ virtual meeting where YWC changed …

By Umar Yusuf Looting and vandalization of government properties continued Monday unchecked in Adamawa state on the second day of the curfew imposed on the state. This is even as the  state police command confirmed the arrest of over 120 suspects who allegedly took advantage of the #EndSARS protests to vandalize and loot public and private …

By Jimitota Onoyume Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, has expressed sympathy with families who lost relatives during the endSARS protest across the country. Chairman of PFN in the state, Bishop Kingsley Enakirerhi and the National Vice President, South-South, of the PFN, Bishop Simeon Okah in their separate speeches at a Black Sunday service at the Flock …

Femi Falana By Nwafor Sunday Mr Femi Falana, a human Rights Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Monday said a group he oversees has identified the barracks where officers of the military who shot protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate, came from. Based on the investigation gathered so far, ASCAB has facts that shots were …

NLC President, Mr. Ayuba Wabba By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has demanded that the Federal Government should order the immediate release of all the welfare provisions and materials provided to cushion the effects of Coronavirus pandemic to citizens. Recall that NLC had before now demanded that the distribution of the palliative provisions should …