Metro
14 Jul 2023
The Federal Government has disclosed that the 11 power distribution companies in the country have submitted applications for the revision of their electricity tariffs. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) announced this in a notice published on Friday. The request for rate review, according to NERC, is based on the need to incorporate changes in…
14 Jul 2023
A suit by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against a former governor of Imo State Senator Rochas Okorocha has been dismissed by the court. A Federal Capital Territory High Court has dismissed the case and described the EFCC’s charges of fraud and abuse of office against Okorocha as an abuse of judicial process.…
14 Jul 2023
Nine months after gunmen attacked the senior pastor and General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleman, along the Benin-Auchi Road in Edo State, police operatives have arrested a 32-year-old man, Yusuf Isah, who claimed to be one of the attackers.
14 Jul 2023
The police in Rivers, yesterday, said operatives attached to the Commissioner of Police (CP) Monitoring Unit on Saturday, July 8, at about 5:00p.m., arrested one Charles Michael alongside six others for selling his three children for N1.5 million.
14 Jul 2023
Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), yesterday, arrested a 35-year-old commercial motorcyclist, known as an Okada rider, for allegedly sodomising a 15-year-old boy in the state.
14 Jul 2023
The Police in Ekiti have arrested three suspects in connection with the abduction of the chairman, All Progressive Congress (APC), in the state, Mr. Paul Omotoso, who was recently kidnapped alongside two others.
14 Jul 2023
A Resident Pastor of Glorious Covenant Church, Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital, Piller Erekwa, yesterday, pleaded guilty to abusing 15-year-old girl in Emohua Local Council of the state.
14 Jul 2023
Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), yesterday, warned motorists, particularly commercial bus operators against contravening traffic laws around the new Apongbon Bridge, CMS bridge down to Marina on Lagos Island.
14 Jul 2023
There was tragedy, yesterday, when gunmen attacked a police checkpoint along Ogor-Evwreni axis of the East West road, in Delta State, shot dead a police officer and carted away his AK-47 service rifle.
14 Jul 2023
Eke community in Udi Local Council of Enugu State, yesterday, raised the alarm over the fate of four vigilantes recuperating in the hospital, following an alleged invasion of the hospital by soldiers, who confiscated the mobile phones of the wounded victims and demanded police report for their treatment.
14 Jul 2023
There was pandemonium, yesterday, along Jakande Gate, in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), as officials of the council’s revenue department seal shops over levies for lock of shops.
14 Jul 2023
Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, says it will be injustice for the indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) if the current administration of President Bola Tinubu does not give the FCT a ministerial slot. At a media parley on social justice hosted by Abuja-based law firm, Law Corridor, on Friday, Olajengbesi, the Managing…
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Gov. Bassey Otu of Cross River says his administration has provided a matching fund of N100 million to scale up food and nutrition interventions in the state.
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Officers from the Ikotun Police Division, Lagos State have rescued three children who had been locked in a room for days by their grandmother. Police spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Friday, stated that an investigation is ongoing on the matter. Hundeyin disclosed that the children have been kept safe while the grandmother…
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A Volvo truck (unregistered) carrying loads of food items overturned in the Ojota area of Lagos on Friday, leaving its occupants with serious injuries.
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed by seven senior advocates of Nigeria against the National Judicial Council (NJC) and others over the alleged unlawful appointment of judges in Kogi.
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At least 23 people have been killed in an attack by bandits on the Anguwar Danko community in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, according to a community leader. The attack, which occurred Wednesday night, has yet to be confirmed by Kaduna State Police authorities. A leader in the community, Zubairu Abdulrahuf, told…
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The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has placed former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on a watchlist. Immigration took this step after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday declared Bello wanted. NIS placed Bello on the watchlist in a circular dated April 18 and signed by Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, DS Umar, for…
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The Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA) says it is targeting over 2.8 million children for the second round of polio outbreak response immunisation in the state.
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The Lagos State Government said its food security initiative is fully on track. Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed this at a press briefing on Thursday. Omotosho said with the Ounje Eko intervention programme (discount weekly market), the food security initiative of the state is solid. READ ALSO: Lagos requires N50b…
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The Federal Government has charged stakeholders in the automotive sector on the realisation of made-in-Nigeria vehicles for economic growth and development. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Doris Anite, said this on Thursday in Abuja, during a Dialogue on Automotive Component Manufacturing in Nigeria. According to Anite, the country has the consumer base…
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The Lagos State Government said it will test run the Redline Rail from Agbado to Iddo next week. The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed this at a press briefing on Thursday. Omotoso said that for two months, various interest groups and stakeholders will be invited to take a ride on…