Nigeria loses N53.26bn to gas flaring by oil companies between Jan. and Feb. 2021, says NNPC
By the gas flaring or wastage,Nigeria lost about N53.26 billion. In February, the oil companies wasted 17.53 billion scf of gas compared...
Igboho: Reject extradition request, he will come to grief if released to Nigeria, Okei-Odumakin tells Benin Republic
…news of lgboho’s arrest hits like a thunderbolt Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, the President, Women Arise and Centre for Change, has described the...
Breaking: Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Igboho, arrested
Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Igboho Oosa, a Yoruba Nation activist has been arrested. Igboho was arrested at the Cotonou Cadjehoun Airport on Monday...
NAF finally confirms crash of Alpha Jet aircraft, says it’s in Zamfara not Kaduna
“On July 18, 2021, around 12.45 pm, a Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jet aircraft, returning from a successful air interdiction mission between the...
Nigerian Air Force refutes Alpha jet crash in Kaduna on Sunday
Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Sunday denied report another of its Alpha jet crashed in Kaduna. NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information...
Presidency attacks Sokoto Catholic Bishop Matthew Kukah over comments on persecution of Christians in Nigeria
“Kukah’s assertion on only Christian schools being targeted by bandits or terrorists is not supported by the facts on the ground” Miffed...
Two months after, Kaduna records another military aircraft crash
Barely two months after a Nigerian military plane crashed in Kaduna killing Nigeria’s army chief, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 others including top...
Withdraw media gag order on terrorist attacks reportage, SERAP tells Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has received an urgent appeal to direct relevant agencies of government to immediately withdraw a gag order banning journalists and...
July 3 Police killing of teenage girl at Lagos Yoruba Nation rally: Comedian Macaroni donates N500,000 to family
“The family despite their state of mourning have been told to bear all responsibilities. This is heartbreaking” More than two weeks after the...
U.S. alerts of Monkeypox, potentially serious viral illness, ‘imported’ from Nigeria through an airline passenger
The U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has alerted that a rare case of human Monkeypox that was detected in Texas,...
Emir of Kano to Buhari: Nigerians are hungry, suffering
“We hope the presidential aides would continue to advise the President on the condition and wellbeing of the poor masses, especially in those...
N1.4bn laundering charge: ex-NBA President Usoro discharged and acquitted
At last, justice appears to have been served in the two-year trial of a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Paul...
Choir mistress, female church member held me as ‘pastor’ raped me, 21-year-old hairdresser alleges
“Few minutes after she got inside the room, Daniel locked the door and increased the volume of the Television set, while Ms Favour...
Journalist Bunmi Afuye’s killing: Security operatives must act fast —Ondo NUJ
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ondo State Council, says it has received the gruesome killing of a member, Olubunmi Afuye, in a...
Restive bandits’ operation claims Nigerian Army General
Bandits have continued to unleash their reign of terror on the high and low with the latest fatal shooting of Nigeria’s Army General....
The Day in Pictures: EFCC launches Eagle Eye app at EFCC Headquarters, Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes commission, EFCC, has launched an App, Eagle Eye, designed to ease the process of reporting economic and financial...
