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By Halimah Olamide The crisis between the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Labour Party degenerated on Wednesday as congress ordered nationwide picketing of party offices. NLC Leaders said they cannot sit down in their house and allow an intruder to come and take it over. Ordering members to take over the party’s offices across the country, the leadership of the NLC said the National Chairman of the LP, Julius Abure, must step aside. Details later… A circular addressed to the chairpersons of all NLC State Councils/Political Commissions dated March 19, 2024 which was titled: “Picketing All Labour Party Offices Nationwide,”…
By Halimah Olamide The lid is being blown off the faces of individuals and organisations who are behind the financing of terrorism in Nigeria. According to an agency of the Federal Government, an ally of popular Sheikh, Ahmad Gumi, Tukur Mamu, has been identified as one of those who are involved in orchestrating finances for terrorist cells in the country. The PUNCH newspaper, quoting an email it received from the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, reported that the position of the unit entitled “Designation of Individuals and Entities for March 18, 2024.” According to the report, the Nigeria Sanctions Committee met…
By Kamil Opeyemi Some parts of the Federal Capital Territory and Kogi state which are under the jurisdiction of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company have been thrown into darkness due to the collapse of facilities serving them. NPO Reports learnt that the AEDC informed its customers in Zamani Estate, Abacha Road Mararaba, Ruga Juli and other parts of Abuja that a technical fault on 33kv feeder k6 from AT9 Karu Transmission Station was responsible for the power outage. “The management of Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc wishes to notify its esteemed customers that there is currently a technical fault on…
By Kamil Opeyemi Men of the Nigerian Army have foiled an attempt to set up a new camp by insurgents of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Imo state. NPO Reports learnt that IPOB men had moved to create a new camp for training and launch attacks when the Army intelligence unit stumbled on the information. According to General Onyema Nwackukwu, the intelligence was received the establishment of a new camp by IPOB /ESN militants on Monday 18 March 2024. He said the troops neutralized an IPOB/ESN militant in a sting operation in the new hideout in Ihiteukwa community,…
By Halimah Olamide There have been a harvest of arms and ammunition from criminals as men of the Nigerian Army have rescued a woman who was kidnapped at her residence in Abuja Layout, Bukuru Low Cost Housing in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. The soldiers who were deployed in Jos South Local Government of Plateau State, successfully rescued Mrs Rosemary Jekpe, recovering some arms in the process. According to Army’s Director of Information, Onyema Nwachukwu, said she was rescued at Rafinbuna Village in Bassa Local Government Area in the same state, after a firefight with the kidnappers.…
By Halimah Olamide The Group Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) Ltd. Mr. Mele Kyari, has advocated for a differentiated approach to attaining energy transition for the African continent. Kyari also said the Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Nigeria Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) Project will be taken in December 2024. He stated these while speaking during a Leadership Dialogue Session at the ongoing CERAWeek Conference in Houston, United States, on Tuesday. According to the GCEO, energy transition is a very difficult subject for countries especially in sub-saharan Africa because geographically, the situations are different as…
BY CHEYANNE M. DANIELS A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the torture of two Black men. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee sentenced Hunter Elward on Tuesday, the first of six former officers to be sentenced for the racially motivated torture of Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. Elward, along with fellow Rankin County deputies Brett McAlpin, Christian Dedmon, Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke and former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield, illegally entered Jenkins’s and Parker’s home on Jan. 24, 2023, after a white person called McAlpin about two Black men staying…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Nigerian Football Federation on Tuesday named a former International Finidi George as the new acting coach of the Super Eagles. 52-year-old, Finidi becomes the fifth player from the 1994 AFCON winning squad to coach the Super Eagles. Others who had coached the Eagles include late Stephen Keshi, Samson Siasia, Sunday Oliseh and Austin Eguavoen. Finidi scored 6 goals in 62 appearances in his 31-year international career. He is expected to handle the Super Eagles in their friendly encounters against the Black Stars of Ghana and the Eagles of Mali. The former Ajax Amsterdam, Real Betis and…
By Yetunde Yekini-Oropo A popular Nigerian movie producer Ikechukwu Nnadi has died. Nnadi, popularly called Andy Best, was the producer of many household movie titles. He reportedly died In Owerri Imo state capital on Tuesday after battling with an undisclosed illness for a long time. The Isiala born entertainment guru was the Chief Executive Officer of Andy Best Production until his death.
At least 11 university students were killed and 42 others injured in a grisly road accident on Monday along a busy highway in southern Kenya, the police confirmed Tuesday. Voi sub-county police commander Dasala Ibrahim said the accident at Voi along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway involved a bus belonging to Kenyatta University and a truck. Ibrahim said the bus with about 60 students was heading to the coastal city of Mombasa for an academic trip when it collided with a truck. The two vehicles collided in the Maungu area at around 5 p.m., local time on Monday. “Some 42 students…