Kogi State Police Command has deployed a tactical team to rescue kidnapped passengers of an 18-seater bus along Obajana-Kabba highway in the State. The Command also said that it deployed additional operational assets to carry out bush combing operations to deny criminal elements safe haven along the route. The Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), SP William Ovye Aya, who made this disclosure in a statement, said the directive was given when the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 8, Command Lokoja, AIG Abubakar Zubairu and the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command, CP Miller G. Dantawaye, visited the…
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There are indications that the Federal Government’s Naira-for-crude panel will be reconvening a meeting on Monday, 24 March, 2025 to consider continuation of the crude sales deal with Dangote Refinery amid petroleum products price uncertainty. Reliable sources in the Ministries of Petroleum Resources and Finance, who preferred anonymity, made this known on Thursday, 20 March, 2025 to an online medium. This comes after Dangote Refinery on Wednesday, 19 March, 2025, announced the suspension of its petroleum products sales in Naira. Dangote Refinery’s decision to suspend petrol product sales in Naira indicated that there is a stalemate in discussion between the Nigerian National Petroleum…
President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr. Obayomi Gregory as the pioneer Registrar of the newly established Federal University of Medicine and Medical Sciences in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Dr. Gregory’s appointment marks a key milestone in the university’s development, following its establishment in 2023. As the institution’s first Registrar, he will be responsible for setting up its administrative structures, policies, and governance frameworks. With a PhD in Political Science from Nile University, Abuja, and a strong academic background in international relations, peace and conflict studies, and journalism, Dr. Gregory brings a wealth of expertise in governance, institutional strategy, public relations, and…
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu on Friday, 21 March, 2025 formally apologised to the Federal High Court, Justice Binta Nyako and Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN over his misconduct at the last proceedings of his trial on the terrorism charges preferred against him by the Federal Government. Kanu pleaded for forgiveness and promised to be of good conduct throughout the duration of his trial. The IPOB leader’s apology was contained in a lengthy prepared speech delivered by his lead counsel and former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Kanu Agabi, SAN.…
Mr Fatai Odunsi, also known as Malo, father of Grammy Awards-nominated artiste Ahmed Ololade, popularly known as Asake, has finally revealed the real reason he was angry with his son. Malo, in a video that surfaced online a few days ago, appealed to the public for financial support to take care of his health, just as he also said he had been paralysed following a stroke, alleging that he had been abandoned by the artiste and had not seen him since March 2022. He further claimed that his calls to Asake had gone unanswered. However, in a recent development, Malo…
The immediate past Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, foreign envoys, captains of industry, and other notable dignitaries from across the country are set to attend the coronation of the 46th Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Abimbola Owoade I, on Saturday, 5 April 2025, in Oyo. The Chairman of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the coronation, Dr Adekunle Ogunmola, who made this disclosure at a press briefing held at the Alaafin’s palace in Oyo on Thursday, 20 March, 2025, also revealed that Oba Owoade had confirmed the attendance of these dignitaries to the LOC. The list of dignitaries expected at…
Famous Nigerian skit maker and actor, Adebowale Adedayo, popularly known as Mr Macaroni, has opened up about a personal ordeal that left him bankrupt and buried in a staggering debt of over half a billion naira. In a post he shared on his Facebook page on Thursday, 20 March, 2025, Mr Macaroni revealed that he was a victim of a scam and a failed investment between 2021 and 2022 which wiped out all his savings. According to him, the incident marked one of the most challenging periods of his life, yet he kept it away from public knowledge. “You all know…
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, at his fresh arraignment on Friday,21 March, 2025 pleaded not guilty to the terrorism charges brought against him by the federal government of Nigeria. The arraignment was conducted at the Federal High Court in Abuja before Justice James Kolawole Omotosho amid watertight security provided by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). Upon the reading of the seven-count charges one by one, Kanu, who was dressed in his usual white sportswear, denied the accusations of threatening Nigeria’s corporate existence and operating an illegal radio station to broadcast Biafra messages.…
The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of one Hammed Saka to three months imprisonment for hawking new Naira notes He was jailed by Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. The charge reads: “That you, Hammed Saka, on or about the 14h day of December, 2024, at Villa Dome Event Centre, Okotie-Eboh Street, Ikoyi, in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, hawked the sum of N800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria and thereby committed an…
Billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist, Aisha Achimugu has been in the news in the last couple of days for the wrong reasons. This time, it is not for her regular philanthropic activities, new business breakthroughs or the crowd-pulling parties but for unfounded stories about her being on the run. Curiously, the purveyors of the falsehood did not bother to even ask the basic questions either from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the organization they claimed was after her or even the unknown, unlisted or fictitious person or persons behind the claim that she was arrested and detained. Obviously, the…