BREAKING: Again, Many Soldiers Fears Killed In Boko Haram Ambush A Lieutenant Colonel and six soldiers have lost their lives in an ambush along Biu-Buni Yadi road, Borno state. The soldiers died exactly a week after the military personnel who were murdered while on a peace mission in Delta State were laid to rest at National Military Cemetery in Abuja. It was gathered that Boko Haram insurgent ambushed the soldiers at Kamuya, a village close to Buratai, home town of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai (rtd). A security source said the soldiers paid a supreme price…
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It’s ‘Unfair’, Ndume Blasts Tinubu’s Government Electricity Tariff Senate Chief Whip Ali Ndume has urged the federal government to reconsider its position on raising the electricity tariff, saying Nigerians have yet to recover from the removal of the fuel subsidy. Mr Ndume said Nigerians were facing many challenges, including unprecedented inflation, insecurity, and hardships. In a statement in Abuja on Saturday, he described the timing of the electricity increase as unfavourable. “To put this fresh responsibility on them is very unfair. Nigerians have yet to recover from the fuel subsidy removal from last year,” said Mr Ndume. The lawmaker’s submission…
Banker Commits Suicide After Killing His Wife Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Banker Commits Suicide After Killing His Wife A former bank employee, Mike Ilishebo, 44, allegedly killed his 35-year-old wife, Valerie Franco, before taking his own life in Zambia. The incident happened at Meanwood Ndeke Phase One area in Lusaka on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Police Public Relations officer, Rae Hamoonga, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday, April 4, said that Mr. Ilishebo strangled Valerie with an electric power adapter cable and stabbed her in the stomach with a knife. “Yesterday, Wednesday, April 3, 2024,…
Tinubu Govt Must Face Consequences Over Electricity Tariff Hike – NLC The Nigerian government, on Friday, insisted on the 240 per cent hike in tariff payable by power consumers in the band ‘A’ category despite calls for its reversal. It also revealed that the subsidised power pricing regime would be for the short term, with a transition plan to achieve a full cost-reflective tariff within a period of three years. However, the decision did not go down well with the Nigeria Labour Congress, which told the Federal Government to prepare for the consequences of the tariff hike, which it described…
Dismissed Navy Officer Beat Hotel Worker To Coma Over N20,000 A dismissed Nigerian Navy official has been arrested for using his boys to help beat people up for money. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this on his official X handle on Saturday. According to him, the suspect who has been dismissed from the navy since 2000 was nabbed while his boys were beating up a hotel worker for daring to ask a customer who contracted him to execute the assault, to stop smoking.
FULL LIST: Major Shake-up Rocks Nigerian Police Force Over Deployment The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has approved the posting of some Police Public Relations Officers (PPROs) to various Commands and Formations, as well as the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer at the Force Headquarters, Abuja. The move, according to a statement signed by Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Ademuyiwa Adejobi, on Saturday, is to strengthen community engagement and strategic communication. Adejobi said the newly posted officers, which include Hundeyin Sewanu, have been tasked to be professional in their dealings and foster unalloyed relationship with members of…
Odinkalu In Trouble Over Bobrisky’s Arrest Comment Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, has sparked controversy with his recent remarks on the arrest of cross dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky. Okuneye was arrested during week by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and docked on a four-count charge bothering on currency mutilation and money laundering However, Odinkalu’s comments, labeling the arrest as evidence of idleness or an abuse of power by the EFCC, have drawn sharp criticism from the Commission. Okuneye pleaded guilty to the charges and has been convicted while awaiting sentencing.…
2019: I will perform better if I survive another four years – Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that he would perform better if given another opportunity in 2019. Buhari also said he had warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies to ensure that every vote counts in 2019. He said he instructed them that all Nigerians must be allowed to vote whoever they want without harassment. NAN reports that’s Buhari spoke on Thursday during an interactive session with a select group of Nigerian professionals based in the United States and Canada. Buhari said he…
Man Storms Ex-wife’s House To Take Back A Car He Bought For Her As Birthday Gift A man recognized as Adewale, pulled a wild act earlier than his two youngsters as he stormed his ex-wife’s house to take back a car he bought her on her birthday. The incident reportedly occurred in Ifako Ijaiye space of Lagos State and it was learnt that Victoria, Adewale’s ex-wife’s defence of utilizing the car to feed their youngsters fell on deaf ears as he was bent on repossessing the car. Victoria was assaulted by Adewale when she was refused handing over the car…
WATCH: Delta Soldiers Killings : Okuama Residents Living In The Forest Even if your heart is made of stone, you will weep at the sight and circumstances of the famished innocent babies, children, women, and men of the Okuama community, at their sanctuary in a forest in a part of the state. The villagers displaced from their homeland because of the March 14 brutal massacre of 17 soldiers in Okuama by suspected crude oil bunkers and militants had fled into the deep forests where they had been living in shocking conditions, drinking polluted water and without food, in the past…