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The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has dispelled rumours that its national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, is dead. The National Publicity Secretary of PANDEF, Hon. Ken Robinson, in a statement issued yesterday described the speculation as malicious falsehood aimed at causing confusion within its chairman board of trustees’ constituency. “PANDEF was inundated with anxious […]
Rising crude oil theft and illegal refineries in the Niger Delta creeks have been attributed to alleged complicity of Nigerian Uniformed personnel and criminals bent on sabotaging the nation’s economy. Media sources learnt that some alleged naval officers who know the locations of illegal refineries usually receive gratifications not to close down crude oil […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 520 new cases of corona virus (COVID-19), this makes the total number of infected people in the country to 146,184. The NCDC disclosed this figure on its official Twitter handle on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that with the 520 fresh cases in […]
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele is expected to appear before the House of Representatives’ Public Accounts Committee to render the bank’s audited accounts this Thursday. Chairman of the Committee, Wole Oke, said they would be expected to render accounts from 2014 to 2019. Oke said they had written to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government will protect all religious and ethnic groups, whether majority or minority in line with its responsibility under the constitution. In a reaction to reports of breakout of violence in some parts of the country by some ethnic and sectional groups, President Buhari warned that the government […]
Following the invasion of Professor Wole Soyinka’s Abeokuta residence by herdsmen and their cattle, the Noble Laureate, yesterday, berated Ogun State Police command for lying over the incident. In a statement he personally signed in Abeokuta, Soyinka said, “Cattle imperialism under any guise is an obscenity to humanity.” He promised to commence a process […]
Commercial and social activities were temporarily disrupted yesterday after factional groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) engaged one another in a free-for-all at Obalende, a suburb in Lagos Island. The cause of the fight is yet to be ascertained, but sources said it might not be unconnected to leadership tussle. It […]
The Senate has called on the Federal Government to direct states on the implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Plan, which is aimed at establishing ranches and eliminating open grazing. The upper chamber of the National Assembly also berated governors negotiating with bandits, saying such negotiations were fuelling banditry. The senators stated these on […]
No fewer than 400 residents on Foreshore Road, Lekki, Lagos State, have been displaced after men of the Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Sanitation (Enforcement) Unit demolished and burnt their houses on Wednesday. Media learnt that the team also included policemen from the Maroko division. A member of the community, who did not want […]
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has yet again requested the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to provide details of how the $20.3b it allegedly withdrew from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) was used. Its request was contained in a letter with reference No: HR/PAC/SCO5/9NASS/QUE.9/974 dated December 7, 2020, signed by its […]
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