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Women Stage Demonstration Backing Emergency Rule In Rivers
Hundreds of women took to the streets of Port Harcourt on Monday to show their support for the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. The women, all dressed in white, gathered at the Garrison Bus Stop in the city centre at 8 a.m. to begin the rally. As of the time this report was filed, the women were...
Police Dismiss Officer Involved In Fatal Calabar Shooting
Inspector Effiong Bassey, a police officer who killed one person and injured two others in Calabar, the state capital, has been fired by the Cross River State Police Command. The state police spokesman, Irene Ugbo, confirmed the dismissal in a statement on Monday, saying Bassey had been charged to court and remanded at the Afokang Correctional Centre. She said, “The police...
Christian Leaders Set To Stage Protest Over Plateau Killings
According to information obtained by The PUNCH, Christian leaders in Plateau State are organizing a protest in response to the state's ongoing murders. In the early hours of Monday, gunmen reportedly killed over 30 villagers in Bassa communities. Also, last week, over 50 people were killed in several attacks launched by gunmen in various communities in the Bokkos Local Government Area. A...
Sony Confirms PS5 Price Hike In Select Markets
Sony has announced a price increase for certain PlayStation 5 consoles in select markets—excluding the United States—citing “challenging” global economic conditions as the reason. The price of the PS5 digital edition, which has no disk drive, will rise by more than 10 percent in Europe, Britain and Australia, the company told AFP on Monday. The company said on Sunday in a...
Plateau Killings: Obi Visits Victims, Donates N7.5m [PHOTOS]
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Mr. Peter Obi, former Labour Party presidential candidate, on Sunday visited Plateau State to offer his condolences over the recent killings in the Bokkos area. According to a statement on Monday via X, Obi traveled from Abuja to Jos, the state capital and expressed sadness over what he described as “senseless killings,” stating that such violence is unacceptable in a...
”Grid Collapse Defeated With Additional 700MW” – Minister
The Federal Government has announced a significant improvement in the stability of Nigeria’s power grid, attributing it to the installation of an additional 700 megawatts in transmission capacity. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said this at the weekend when he received the EU Ambassador to Nigeria, Gautier Mignot, in his office in Abuja. According to a statement released on Sunday...
Crude Output Drops Amid Global Price Crash
Nigeria's average daily crude production has dropped once more in March, endangering the country's budget as the world struggles with a global collapse in crude prices. According to data released by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, the daily crude production figure was an average of 1.40 million barrels per day, down from 1.465 mbpd in February. The PUNCH reports that...
Army Troops Discover 11 Illegal Bunkering Sites In Four States
The Nigerian Army has discovered 11 new illegal bunkering sites and made several seizures during a six-day operation across Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers states. Lt. Col. Danjuma Danjuma, spokesman for the Nigerian Army’s 6th Division, Port Harcourt, made this known in a statement on Monday in Port Harcourt. He said that seven suspects were arrested during the operations. ”Troops seized...
Presidency Dismisses US Court Order On Tinubu, Atiku Differs
The Presidency on Sunday dismissed any notion of fresh revelations emerging from a United States court order directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration to release files on President Bola Tinubu’s past investigation. It insisted that the records, which date back to a drug trafficking investigation in Chicago from the early 1990s, have been publicly available...
Portable In Our Custody Over Defamation, Threat To Life — Police
The Kwara State Police have confirmed that singer Habeeb Badmus, widely known as Portable, is in their custody over allegations of defamation and threats to life. This is contained in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, in Ilorin. ”The suspect was arrested following a petition received from one Mr. Okunola Saheed, popularly known as “Osupa.” Police detectives in...
