Investors Will Not Come If We Continue To Pay Electricity Subsidy For Nigerians – Tinubu’s Govt Defends High Tariffs The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu has claimed that the country needs to invest the sum of 10 billion dollars yearly, to revive the power sector for the next 10 years. The minister revealed this on Monday, at a one-day investigative hearing on halting the electricity tariff increase by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) organised by the Senate Committee on Power in Abuja. He was quoted by NAN saying: “For this sector to be revived, government needs to spend nothing…
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BREAKING : Top Police Officer Kidnap Two-week-old Baby, Four Others In Abuja The police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have arrested an Assistant Superintendent of Police, identified only as Kulu, alongside her accomplice, one Elizabeth, for allegedly abducting five children. The children abducted includes a less than two-week-old-baby girl from Sokoto State, three toddlers under the age of two, and a five-year-old named Asmau Ya’u, who was reportedly abducted while on her way to an Islamiyya school in Sokoto. It was learnt that the suspects came under suspicion while travelling from Sokoto to Abuja in an 18-seater bus,…
‘Even If I Retire Today, You’ll Still Not Be On My Level’ – Wizkid Blasts Davido Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Balogun, aka Wizkid, has boasted that even if he decides to retire from the music industry now, his colleague Davido will still not be on his level. Wizkid stated this during a heated exchange with Davido on X platform on Monday night. He described Davido as his “boy,” adding that the DMW boss is just an influencer with a songwriter. He wrote, “I got nun to say to u my boy! I can retire today and you still not on…
BREAKING: Tension As Gunmen Kidnap Popular Nigerian Musician Gunmen have kidnapped Gnewzy, also known as Emuemu Goodnews, a young Nigerian singer, in Delta State. The kidnappers are demanding $200,000 (more than N220 million) in ransom. The musician, who signed with Eric Many Records in December 2023 and is most known for his hit tune “Sneakers,” was kidnapped early Monday morning. The record label, in a statement by its promotion coordinator, Adedayo Showemimo, claimed that Gnewzy was taken after playing at a Homecoming performance at Monaco nightclub in Ughelli, Delta State: “It is with deep concern and grave distress that Eric…
How I Collected $600,000 Bribe For Emefiele, Says Director On Monday, an Ikeja Special Offences Court heard from John Ayoh, a former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Director in Charge of Information and Technology, about how he collected $600,000 from two contractors on behalf of the bank’s CEO, Godwin Emefiele. Olalekan Ojo (SAN), the counsel for Emefiele (1st defendant), cross-examined Ayoh in front of Justice Rahman Oshodi. The former CBN governor previously contested the court’s jurisdiction to trial him for abuse of office and the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud against him. In his move on notice filed April 24, Ojo contended…
Tears As Missing UniAbuja Finally Year Student Found Dead A 400-level female student of the University of Abuja, Murjanatu Zubairu, who was declared missing on Friday has died in a car accident along the Lugbe – Airport Road, Abuja. Zubairu, a student of the Department of Arts Education in the university’s Faculty of Education, left home for school on Friday but her whereabouts remained unknown until Monday. Confirming her death via a telephone chat with Daily Trust late Monday, her uncle, Zubairu Yewuti who is also a former vice chairman of Kwali Area Council of the FCT, said, “The family…
Terrorists’ Negotiator Cries Out For Help, Seeks Transfer From DSS Custody An alleged terrorist negotiator, Tukur Mamu, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to order his transfer from the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). In an application by his counsel, Abdul Mohammed (SAN), on Monday, Mamu asked Justice Inyang Ekwo to vary his remand to the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Kuje instead of the DSS facility. Mohammed also informed the court that the order of December 19, 2023, to allow Mamu access to his physician had not been obeyed by the DSS, which had caused…
APC Speaks On Turning Nigeria Into One-Party State The National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Bashiru, has said leaders of the party will not turn Nigeria into a one-party state but build the party to continue winning elections in the country. He stated this on Monday while addressing a crowd of supporters who stormed the party’s national secretariat in Abuja and passed a vote of confidence on the party’s national chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, asking him not to quit office. He said, “We are not saying Nigeria should become a one-party state. But we are…
EXCLUSIVE: Another Nigerian Governor Sets To Dump PDP For APC Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Governor Diri Set To Dumps PDP Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayelsa State, have rejected what they called an alleged plan by Governor Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to defect to the the party. The leaders who said Governor Diri’s romance with the presidency may not be unconnected with the 2023 Bayelsa governorship dispute at the State Election Petition Tribunal, however warned President Bola Tinubu against any deal with the governor, saying, “President Bola Tinubu must be wary of…
Angry Travellers Beat Nigerian Police Female Inspector To Death No fewer than 16 suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of a female police inspector, Christiana Erekere, in front of Taabaa Police Station in the Khana local government area of Rivers State. It was learnt that the incident happened on April 25, while the policewoman was on duty at the Bori Police Division. The men in a private vehicle were said to have been stopped by policemen for a routine search, while suddenly, an argument ensued and the occupants became angry and blocked the road, according to a…