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IG Recognises Police Award Winners With New Ranks
The Nigeria Police Force has announced plans to honour and decorate outstanding officers who have demonstrated exceptional service, courage, and integrity, through accelerated promotions approved by the Police Service Commission. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by the Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Olumuyiwa Adejobi. According to the statement, the move is part of the Inspector-General of Police,...
APC Clears Uzodimma, Sylva, Lyon, Adeyemi For Primaries
Imo State Governor Hope Uzudimma, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Senator Smart Adeyemi and Kogi State Deputy Governor Edward David Onoja, and 20 other aspirants have been cleared by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the party’s governorship primaries in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states. The conduct of off-season governorship elections in the three states has been fixed by...
”We’re Not Bothered By Opposition’s Noise” – Otti
The governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has stated that he is not concerned about the "noise" coming from the state's opposition party members. Otti made the remark on Tuesday while receiving a delegation led by the member representing Bende North State Constituency, Nnamdi Ibekwe, who recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party to join the ruling Labour Party in the...
NCC Extends SIM-NIN Linkage Deadline To September 14, 2024
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has extended deadline to link the Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) with the National Identity Number (NIN) to September 14, 2024. NCC gave the directive on Wednesday, directing all Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to complete the mandatory verification and linkage of SIMs to NINs by the said date. The communication regulatory agency also revealed that over 153...
I Found Mohbad’s Body Embalmed By Staircase – Father
Joseph Aloba, the father of the late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as MohBad, has said his son’s body was already embalmed and placed by the staircase when he arrived at the deceased’s home the day he died. Aloba made this known while calling on the police to intensify the investigation to unravel the cause of his son’s death. In...
Minimum wage: FG suspends salary review
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said the Federal Government will no longer review workers’ salaries as earlier promised. The acting Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan, had said through the Director of Communications in her office, Mrs Olawunmi Ogunmosunle, that the FG would ensure that all states complied with the...
Court Jails 5 Men Caugth With Human Skulls 60 Years
The Chief Magistrate of a court two in Tunga, Minna, Niger State has sentenced five men arrested with human skulls to 60 years imprisonment with hard labour. Each of the convicts will spend 12 years in prison for attempting to commit a money ritual with the skull. Chief Magistrate Fati Umar Hassan, who passed the judgment, on Monday, found them guilty...
Corruption Allegation Against Me Meaningless, Attempt To Undermine My Anti-Corruption Campaign — Beta Edu
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has described the N585m fraud allegation against her as baseless and an alleged attempt by mischief makers to undermine her ministry’s effort in fighting corruption. The embattled minister made this known in a statement posted on her Facebook page on Saturday. The minister came under heavy criticism on Friday after a...
Magu Reacts To Malami’s Accusations, Says “No Blackmail Can Stop Me”
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has stated that no amount of blackmail can deter him from fighting corruption in Nigeria. Magu, an award-winning anti-corruption Czar, on Thursday, disclosed that those stealing Nigeria’s money must be stopped. Addressing a delegation of the Nigerian Union of Journalists in Abuja, He said; “Those stealing, embezzling, hiding and carrying...
Senator Kalu Is The Most Reliable Businessman I Ever Met — Apostle Alozie
An Abia based Cleric, Apostle Chuks Alozie, has announced Forbes rated international businessman and astute politician, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as the most reliable businessman he ever met. Addressing Participants at the NYFC annual business seminar for young entrepreneurs held in Abuja on Tuesday, the cleric has used the eminent businessman as an inspirational example of the integrity demands of...
