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President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday named Ms. Hafsat Abubakar Bakari as the Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). A statement released said her appointment is pending her confirmation by the Senate. “Ms. Bakari is a lawyer and financial intelligence expert with years of experience in anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, and counter-proliferation financing (AML/CFT/CPF),” said a statement by Ajuri Ngelale Special Adviser to the President on Media. Information available to the NPO Reports show that Bakari served as Deputy Director at the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, and was at different times the Head of the General Services…

By Halimah Olamide Former Minister of Sports under President Muhammadu Buhari, Solomon Dalung, on Tuesday said President Bola Tinubu has failed to lift up to the expectations of Nigerians. Dalung who sounded like mocking Tinubu by saying that after the president succeeded in grabbing power, he cannot run with it but he is stuck with it, asked Tinubu to recreate what he called his “Lagos miracles.” He said Tinubu has snatched power but has not been able to do anything tangible with it. He was making a reference to one of Tinubu’s sayings in the past where he said those…

As Tinubu Orders Payment of Electricity Bill After Disconnection Threat By Halimah Olamide After the threat to disconnect power at the Presidential Villa, the president on Tuesday ordered that the outstanding bill for the villa’s power consumption should be paid immediately. The presidency however said rather than the over N900m claimed in a newspaper advertorial, the state house of is owing the power company a sum of N342, 352, 217.46 NPO Reports that the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company had listed the Presidential Villa, army barracks and many ministries, departments and agencies of the government as debtors whose outstanding have crippled…

By Halimah Olamide Sensational afrobeat singer, David Adeleke, on Tuesday announced a N300m package for orphanages across Nigeria. He said he and his foundation will announce the distribution formula for the N300m on Wednesday. “I and my foundation pledge the sum of 300 million Naira to orphanages around Nigeria … as my yearly contribution to the Nation .. details of disbursement tomorrow,” he wrote on his X handle on Tuesday Last year, Davido donated 237 million to orphanage homes, saying that he had always wanted to use his platform to serve others. The money the music superstars donated was the funds…

By Femi Alabi Police Force Public Relation Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi has said that the dissemination of defamatory content against officers of the Nigeria Police serves no constructive purpose but will rather undermine and frustrate the morale of hardworking officers who risk their lives daily to provide security and maintain law and order in the society. Adejobi on his official X handle reacting to a post by an X account user who uploaded a video ranking the NPF as the most corrupt Police Force in the world condemned the acceptance and circulation of such misleading content without proper scrutiny of its…

Nigeria Customs Service NCS Kano Area Command, said it personnel has intercepted four trucks of food items as part of efforts to tackle smuggling. NCS in a statement by its spokesman Saidu Nuradeen in Kano today noted that personnel of the service intercepted the vehicles transporting a significant quantity of food items intended for illegal export along the Hadejia – Taura – Ringim axis in Jigawa. Nuradeen listed the food items to include 1,505 cartons of big and small-size dried fish, 17 bags of local variety rice, and two bags of beans. He pointed out that the seizure confirm the…

Agency Report Nine people were confirmed dead, while seven others sustained various degree of injuries in an accident involving a truck and a Mazda bus at Kere Bridge on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. Confirming the accident to newsmen today Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) spokesperson in Ogun, Mrs Florence Okpe said that the incident occurred at 8:00 a.m., caused by speeding and route violations, which led to a head-on collision between a truck, without a registration number and another bus, marked SMK 808 YD. She stated that a total of 17 persons were involved, comprising seven men, nine women, and one…

Kamil Opeyemi In its determination to rid Nasarawa state of ,criminals, the state Police Command on Tuesday raided a suspected kidnappers den in Nasarawa Eggon and arrested 109 illegal miners in the area. In compliance with the directive of the State Police Commissioner, Umar Shehu Nadada, the operation was carried out by Police in collaboration with the Vigilante Group. According to a statement by the Police Public Relation Officer, DSP Ranham Nansel, kidnappers had deserted all the camps before the arrival of the operatives. He said the CP had directed the Command’s Anti-kidnapping unit in collaboration with the Vigilante group…

By Femi Alabi Six persons have been confirmed dead while 10 others were injured in a fresh attack by bandits on Yar Nasarawa village in Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. This attack is coming barely a month after bandits killed two residents and abducted 29 others in an attack on Dan Alhaji and Yandaka villages in the Batsari Local Government Area of the State. Residents also revealed that bandits also attacked Ruwangodiya village in the same local government area on Monday night where they rustled an unspecified number of domestic animals. Sources disclosed that the bandits carried out…

By Halimah Olamide The three days of rains have brought relief to many Nigerians especially in the urban centres after the killing heatwave that had persisted for weeks. Lagos residents have witnessed heavy downpours since weekend with many of the rains leading to flood. However, the rains have come at a time that residents had become helpless over the worsening weather condition. The situation was further compounded with the worsening power supply in many parts of the country with incessant collapse of the national grid. The poor power supply had led to many sleeping outside their their houses especially where…