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Exclusive: Former US intelligence analyst says he warned authorities about activities of Ike Ekweremadu A former US intelligence analyst warned the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to investigate the activities of a senior Nigerian politician before he trafficked a man to London in an attempt to harvest his kidney, the Guardian can reveal. On Friday, Ike Ekweremadu was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for being the driving force in a plot to harvest a kidney for his sick daughter in the first organ trafficking conviction under the Modern Slavery Act. Matthew Page, a Nigeria expert at the US…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to stay away and not disrupt flight operations at airports over their grievances in Owerri. Capt. Hamisu Yadudu, Managing Director, FAAN, said this in Lagos on Sunday while speaking with newsmen. The unions, on Wednesday, disrupted flight operations to Owerri over alleged disruptions of their May Day rally by miscreants. Yadudu said the unions’ disruption of flight operations was condemnable. “They wrote to us that our workers would come and picket the Lagos Airport and they should not…
By Kamil Opeyemi “Prof Soyinka has been my father whom I hold in very esteem for what he has achieved and stands for in the struggle for a better Nigeria,” Obi said Following the recent exchanges between the Nobel Laureate, Soyinka and Obi’s supporters popularly known “Obidients” the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has visited Prof. Wole Soyinka. Announcing his visit to Soyinka in a tweet on Sunday, Obi said it was “intended to erase the needless misconceptions about the relationship between the great icon and the OBIdient family.” “Today I visited one of Nigeria’s most revered…
By Kamil Opeyemi The multi-billion Naira Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical company will be inaugurated in Lagos on May 22. Mr Anthony Chiejina, Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Ltd disclosed this to newsmen of on Sunday in Lagos. President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to inaugurate the multi billion dollars project. The facility is expected to produce 650,000 barrels per day with the cost of completion pegged at 19 billion dollars. The 650,000 barrels per day refinery is expected to boost the Federal Government’s effort to make Nigeria self-sufficient. The Dangote Refinery complex located in the Lekki Free Zone…
Halimah Olamide The management of Max Airline Sunday evening opened up on what really happened to one of its aircraft at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. In a statement released a copy of which was made available to the NPO Reports, the flight landed in but two tyres of the aircraft bursted immediately after landing causing a fire in the process. “On May 7th, 2023, a Max Air flight with 143 passengers and 01 infant on board, departing from Yola at around 14:05, was scheduled to arrive in Abuja at 15:00. However, the aircraft experienced two tire bursts on…
By Halimah Olamide “The main difference between the counterfeit product and the genuine product is that the genuine Novo Nordisk Ozempic pens do not extend or increase in length when setting the dose. The scale drum increments are fixed doses, such as 0.25 mg, 0.5 mg, and 1.0 mg for Ozempic pens,” The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Sunday raised the alerm over what it called falsified is Ozempic (Semaglutide) Pen, used for administering insulin on diabete patients. The agency said there is a batch of the falsified pen saying that its Marketing Authorization…
By Kamil Opeyemi President-elect Bola Tinubu has praised Super Eagles forward, Victor Osimhen over his recent victory at his football club, Napoli. Osimhen delivered the Azzurri’s first Serie A title in 33 years after netting a scudetto-sealing equaliser in their 1-1 draw against Udinese on Thursday Hailing the 24 Lagos-born footballer via his Twitter handle on Sunday, Tinubu described Osimhen as the “new king of Serie A” According to the President-elect, Victor is the real deal or ‘Idán gangan’ “I think we can all agree that there was another coronation in Italy where our son, Victor Osimhen, claimed the…
By Hamilah Olamide The Federal Government on Sunday flaunted its newly acquired fire fighting equipment at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja after the equipment were deploying to preventing tragedy after the Max Air mishap. NPO Reported earlier that the aircraft had recorded an emergency landing after one of its tyres burst forcing the pilot coming from Yola to make emergency landing. It was gathered that the tyre had burst into fire after the emergency landing causing panic in the entire aviation industry in the country. No life was lost in the incident. It was learnt that officials of the…
By Halimah Olamide A plane belonging to Max Air has crash landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja. NPO Reports that the cause of the accident was from a tyre burst. It was learnt that the aircraft had just arrived from Yola, Adamawa State. Officials of the Aerodrome Rescue and Fire-fighting Service (ARFFS) had moved in to put out the fire before engulfing the entire aircraft. Former President of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Mike Ogirima, gave an account of the incident, stating that the tyre burst occurred after takeoff at Yola Airport. Ogirima said, “We thank God.…
By Hamilah Olamide Leaders of the warring sides in Sudan have arrived the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ahead of a peace talk aimed at ending hostilities. NPO Reported earlier that more than 500 persons have been killed since the war broke out more than three weeks ago. Over 2000 persons have been injured in the conflict. NPO Reports quotes what the BBC reported as that “pre-negotiation talks” scheduled to start on Saturday (today.) The deadly war is between between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Saturday’s meeting, the first of its kind since the war broke…