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CNN today released a second report on the incident on the shootings at Lekki toll plaza during the #EndSARS protests despite threats of sanction from the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, over its investigative report. CNN’s second report includes the Commander, 81 Division, Brig.Gen Ahmed Taiwo, admittance that soldiers took live ammunition to […]
Delta, Anambra communities have lamented the adverse effect of the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge. At a town hall meeting attended by Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, secretary to the Delta State government Mr Chiedu Ebie, Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, the traditional leaders and youths of the affected communities […]
The Federal Government has said it plans to end fish importation in the next two years, saying it has already ordered fish importers to consider farming and production locally. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, while speaking at the 35th Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria, in Abuja on Monday. He […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that Senator Ali Ndume (Borno South) to be remanded in the Kuje correctional centre. Justice Okon Abang made the order on Monday following Ndume’s failure to produce Abdulrasheed Maina, who is standing trail before the court on money laundering charge and for whom, Ndume stood surety. Justice […]
The Nigerian government is working towards reversing the declining trend in the country’s economy, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Development, Zainab Ahmed, has said. Responding to the latest gross domestic product figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics, which showed Nigeria is now in its second recession in five years, Mrs Ahmed […]
The confederation of Africa Football, CAF, president, Ahmad Ahmad, has been handed a five-year ban from the game, by FIFA. The ethics committee of the world’s football governing body found the CAF leader “had breached his duty of loyalty, offered gifts and other benefits, mismanaged funds and abused his positions as the CAF President.” Ahmad […]
Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo, Commander of the 81 Division, Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island has said that he was unaware that the Nigerian Army Headquarters had described the shootings at the Lekki Tollgate as “fake news” on Twitter. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Taiwo made the disclosure at the weeked while […]
The Oviorie Community Vigilante in Ethiope-East Local Government Area of Delta State, on Sunday morning gunned down four suspected armed robbery suspects. The suspects had terrorized Oviorie Community and its environs before they met their waterloo. Found in the possession of the deceased suspects were cut-to-size guns and other sophisticated weapons. The suspects were gunned […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has shown that it expended N81.41bn on Nigeria’s refineries between January and August this year but the facilities refined no drop of crude oil all through this period. This data was contained in the just released August 2020 report of the NNPC. The Warri refinery, Kaduna and Port Harcourt refineries […]
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