Wike To Akpabio: I Will Frustrate You, Increase Your High Blood Pressure The Executive Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has threatened to frustrate the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio over comments against South-South Governors. Mr. Wike on live television on Friday said Akpabio is not qualified to tell Niger Deltans to ask the south-South governors what they do with funds. He also threatened that the minister will be taught a lesson if he does not focus on his state, Akwa-Ibom, saying he will increase Mr. Akpabio’s high blood pressure. “You will never sleep again, I know you…
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EFCC Arrests 57 Suspected Internet Fraudsters, Recovers Two Pump Action Rifles, Photos The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office on Friday, arrested 57 suspected internet fraudsters at their hideouts and recovered two pump action rifles. A statement by the Commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Iwujare, indicated that the suspects were arrested in Yewa Frontier Hotel & Resort, Ellysam Hotel & Suits, April Suits and IBD International Hotels, all in Ilaro, Ogun State. The operation followed intelligence linking them to alleged fraudulent activities, ranging from love scam on numerous dating sites, obtaining money by false pretences and other cybercrimes. Four…
BREAKING: Nigerian Army Have Rescueds; 42 Female Students, 8 Staff And 130 Male Students Abducted From Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka In Kaduna State. Photos According to report, some of the rescued students are injured and presently receiving medical attention at a military facility.
FCMB MD Scandal: 70 Days After Confirming Investigation, Truth Finally Revealed First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has been silent on the allegations of unethical conduct against its Managing Director, Adam Nuru. Nuru was in December 2020 enmeshed in a marriage scandal with Moyo, one of the bank’s former female staff members. Tunde Thomas, the husband of the woman in contention, had died on December 16 reportedly from depression and cardiac arrest. Thomas reportedly died of depression after he realised that his two children were allegedly fathered by the bank MD. However, the bank in a statement on January 1, 2021…
Supreme Court Affirms Joshua Dariye’s 10-year Jail Term A five-man panel of the Supreme Court has affirmed the ten-year jail term sentence slammed on a former governor of Plateau state, Senator Joshua Dariye, who is serving the jail term for criminal breach of trust. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had charged Dariye to court in 2007, accusing him of diverting N1.126 billion from Plateau government’s ecological fund. In June 2018, Adebukola Banjoko, a judge of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Gudu, sentenced Dariye to 14 years imprisonment having found him guilty on 15 out the…
NYSC Fix Date For Verification Of Foreign-Trained Graduates, Full Details The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Friday disclosed that the verification of foreign-trained graduates will commence April 12 to 16, 2021. The scheme in a post on its official Twitter account noted that the modalities necessary for seamless physical verification of their certificates and other relevant documents have been put in place. NYSC called on the concerned graduates to check their dashboards for further details. The statement said, “This is to inform all foreign-trained graduates, who have registered for mobilization into the NYSC that modalities have been put in…
Man Corrects 9 English Mistakes, See Reactions The British Royal statement issued to Meghan Markle on March 9 had errors according to Mwalimu Njenga Joshua Njenga Source: Facebook In a post he shared on his Facebook page, Njenga highlighted the ‘errors’ that were made in the statement, introducing the words he thought would be appropriate. According to Njenga, the statement was faulty right from the header to its body, pointing out the unnecessary wordiness that had been carried therein. His confidence to challenge the statement has left many tickled, given it was by the perceived owners of the English language.…
Why I Can Never Bring Myself So Low To Wike’s Level, Amaechi Hits Back The former Governor of Rivers State and Minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has said he won’t join issues with his successor and current governor of the South-South state, Nyesom Wike. For some years, Amaechi of the All Progressives Congress and Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party have not been in good terms over certain political issues that concern the state. Wike had on Wednesday accused the APC-led Federal Government of shielding Amaechi from prosecution over misappropriation of proceeds from the sales of some state assets. The…
BREAKING: FG Announces New Increament Of Fuel Price Information reaching us that, The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has declared a guiding price of ₦211.11 per litre for premium motor spirit (PMS), otherwise known as fuel. Daily Report Nigeria gathered that a pricing template for the period, February 1 and 28 2021, published on the agency’s website based on the average costs of imported petroleum products also puts the lower band of the new fuel price for the month at about N209.61 per litre while the upper band was calculated at N212.61 per litre. A review of the pricing…
Military Kills Scores Of Bandits In Air, Land Strikes The Nigerian military has conducted joint land and air strikes on bandits’ camps in located in Birnin Gwari, Igabi, Giwa and Chikun local government areas of Kaduna State, killing scores of the terrorists. The military embarked on a “sweeping mission operation in several aerial missions conducted” covering locations in the government areas according to the state second security update made available to journalists on Thursday. The release by the state Internal Security and Home Affairs Commissioner, Samuel Aruwan, stated that the missions were carried out in tandem with ground patrols in…