The Senator, representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Ifeanyi Ubah, on Monday, presented no fewer than 14 Toyota Sienna vehicles, 40 motorcycles, over 100 walkie-talkies and other security gadgets to vigilance groups and neighbourhood security watch in Nnewi, Anambra State. Ubah said the gesture was part of efforts aimed at equipping and fortifying the local security […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said its 2023 Direct Entry, Direct Entry e-PIN sales will close on Saturday, May 26, 2023. The board said the registration of those who obtained the e-PIN ends on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. JAMB‘s acting Director, Public Affairs, Fabian Benjamin, in a statement on Tuesday morning, recalled that […]

The President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has expressed confidence in the incoming President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to sustain the tempo of his regime. Buhari said this on Monday while speaking at the Presidential Fleet Review, 2023, at the Naval Dockyard Limited, Victoria Island, Lagos. According to Buhari, the incoming administration would continue to maintain […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission warned Nigerians on Tuesday against a ‘scam alert’ which purportedly emanated from the EFCC Help Desk. The agency said no such desk exists in the agency. The EFCC’s warning was contained in a statement posted on its Twitter page and signed by its Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson […]

Natives of Ogbomoso in Oyo State staged a protest across the ancient town on Monday over the planned relocation of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, to a newly established campus of the school located in Iseyin, Oyo State. In April 2023, the indigenes of the town staged […]

Liberian authorities admitted on Monday they had lost all traces of four drug dealers linked to a cocaine shipment worth 100 million dollars after a trial jury unexpectedly acquitted them. With US and Brazilian assistance, Liberian security officials seized a container full of cocaine in October 2022. The four men — one Liberian, a Portuguese, […]

The Sultan of Sokoto State and co-chairman of the Nigeria Inter-religious Council, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has refuted the claim that he said security agents were dodging bandits and mocking victims of the attacks. The Sultan, who is also the President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, denied the claim in a […]

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned Saadatu Ramalan-Yaro, a businesswoman, for the second time in Lagos State, two weeks after her first arraignment. The businesswoman was brought before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja on charges of money laundering amounting to over N140 billion. She is accused of not […]

Illegal migration and trafficking have been on the increase in Nigeria because the country does not have laws to stop people from leaving, a former Controller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, has said. According to him, the trend could stop if there would be good leaders who should be committed to doing good […]

The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals will be beneficial to the country’s economy. The PUNCH reports that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), inaugurated the refinery, which is currently the world’s largest single-train petroleum refiner, in Lagos State on Monday. Senior government officials from Nigeria […]