Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Saturday, 24 August 2024 abducted a Director with the Rivers State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Aribibia John Fubara. Fubara was abducted at Okrika Waterfront, near Marine Base, Port Harcourt. A source hinted that the kidnappers, numbered about six, were fully armed fired sporadically into the air, carefully identified their target, and forcibly took him into a boat before speeding away. The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Grace Iringe-Koko, said the command was aware of the incident. According to Iringe-Koko, the State Commissioner of Police, Olatunji Disu “has directed tactical…
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Ukrainian authorities on morning of Monday, 26 August, 2024 confirmed the attacked on the country by Russia for the second consecutive night with heavy airstrikes involving various weapon types has claimed lives of at least five people. The authourities added two of the victims died as a result of a rocket strike on a hotel in Kryvyi Rih and three others due to drone attacks on Zaporizhzhya. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the Russian army once again used long-range bombers, launching cruise missiles. Hypersonic missiles of the Kinzhal (Dagger) type were also fired. Russia has attacked Ukraine for the…
A former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has disclosed how he battled and survived life threatening cancer. In a video that went viral on Tuesday, Oritsejafor, the Senior Pastor of Word of Life Bible Church, Warri, Delta State, appearing sober and reflective, recounted the challenging journey he faced, detailing the emotional, physical, and spiritual trials that came with his diagnosis. In the three-minute video, the clergy noted that his faith played a crucial role in his recovery “How do you face cancer and still stand like this? “What I have not told you is when…
Operatives of the Jigawa State Police Command have arrested a vendor named Abdulrashidu Ya’u in the state over alleged killing of a 20-year-old man named Hassan Garba, over accusations of stealing bread, milk, noodles, and petrol. The suspect, who resides in Sararai village, Jigawar Tsada town in Dutse Local Government Area is said to have committed the crime on August 19, 2024, at around 5:00 am. The state Police Public Relations Officer DSP Lawan Adam, confirmed the crime in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday, 27 August, 2024. According to Adam, upon receiving the report, a standby…
In what is described as a big low to one of US President Joe Biden’s biggest immigration reform policies, a Texas judge J. Campbell Barker on Monday, 26 August, 2024 ordered a temporary pause on a policy that would streamline the process for spouses of US citizens to obtain legal status in the country. Barker granted a 14-day administrative stay in a case brought by the Republican attorneys general of 16 US states challenging the Biden administration’s policy. In June, Biden announced the new policy, which streamlined a pathway to citizenship for an estimated half a million immigrants married to…
Ekiti State Executive Council has approved N4.15b for the execution of projects including road rehabilitation, renovation of the House of Assembly complex, agriculture and construction of hostels. The Commissioner for Information, Taiwo Olatunbosun, disclosed the August 26 SEC approvals in a statement made available in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Tuesday, 27 August, 2024. Olatunbosun stated that the SEC, in a bid to ensure the state’s roads are well-maintained and motorable, approved an N2.71b contract to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation for the rehabilitation of De-Head to Faglo, Basiri Junction Road, Ado Ekiti. “Rehabilitation of the road is…
From Chuks Collins, Awka The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo, has allegedly deployed heavily armed security operatives including soldiers, mobile policemen and state government agents to seal off the head office of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) led by Edozie Njoku in Awka. Addressing a gathering of journalists amidst party faithfuls at the gate of the sealed, the Vice National Chairman (South East), Engr TonyUche Ezekwelu expressed shock that state Governor could lock out officers and members of the party that produced him. Ezekwelu lamented that change of party leaders and control is not in anyway a death…
By Temitope Ajayi By his advanced age and eminent status as a former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is by no means qualified to be an elder statesman. Statesmen are highly venerated and revered people to whom we go for advice, guidance and direction. But sometimes, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar behaves as if he should be removed from that exclusive club. Or how else can one interpret some of his utterances and statements? Or is the former vice president merely playing politics? But politics should have its season and time and should sometimes give way for nation-building and patriotism.…
A deepening of mutual understanding between Nigeria and the BBC World Service is critical to a more informed society, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has said. He spoke during a working visit to the British Broadcasting Corporation headquarters in London. Idris’s visit to the BBC is part of a bridge-building and cooperation efforts between Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation and foreign and local media houses. At a meeting with the BBC’s top management, headed by Mr Jonathan Munro, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the BBC News and Director of the BBC World Service,…
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar has decried the spate of security threats in Africa and its implications for the continent’s development. The Minister expressed this concern while speaking at the Ministerial Meeting of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) held from August 24th to 25th, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. He said that Africa’s security and development landscape is increasingly witnessing complex threats in the form of terrorism and transnational organized crimes, noting that these vices are destabilising Africa’s peace and security architecture, undermining the pursuit of democracy and good governance, and disincentivising foreign direct investors from…