Nigeria Senate backs El- Tahdam Exploration’s $500M Secured Chinese Investment in Solid Minerals Sector … Senate reaffirms legislative support to safeguard foreign investments The Nigerian Senate has thrown its weight behind El-Tahdam Exploration Limited following its successful facilitation of a $500 million investment deal with a Chinese consortium for solid minerals exploration across Nigeria. During a high-level interactive session held over the weekend in Abuja, the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Resources, led by its Acting Chairman, Senator Onawo Mohammed Ogoshi (SDP – Nasarawa South), pledged robust legislative backing to safeguard the investment and promote investor confidence. “The Nigerian Senate…
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VIDEO: Man Cries Out For Help As He Discover His Stolen Car Is Used As Patrol Vehicle, Accuses Nigerian Security DELTA-A man has called out the Delta State Police Command for converting his missing car into a police vehicle. In a now-trending video, the man, identified as Ogoro Miffy, recounted how his car got stolen when he attended a church program in 2015. After discovering the theft, he went to the Ekpan Division Police Station to file a report. “Them say make I go print paper for stolen vehicle. I even distribute am all over the place for them,” he…
Tension As Headless Bodies Found In River There is serious confusion As The remains of three headless bodies were on Tuesday discovered in a river in Odigbo community of Odigbo local government area of Ondo by the residents of the community. The three bodies were found floating on the river by the locals who visited the river and noticed the decomposing bodies at the river bank. An eyewitness explained that the headless bodies of the deceased indicated that they were brutally murdered by some people who dumped their remains in the river. A youth leader, who identified himself as Sileola,…
Focus On People’s Welfare, Not Self-interest; Buhari To Governors Former President Muhammadu Buhari has advised the members of the Progressive Governors Forum to adopt a citizen-centric approach, saying that leadership presents both a challenge and an opportunity. He stated that balancing the two would significantly advance national progress. In a statement signed by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, and made on Wednesday, Buhari stated this after he hosted a delegation of APC governors led by Imo state Governor Hope Uzodinma at his Kaduna residence recently. He expressed confidence in the progress being made by the governors elected on the platform of…
Karimi Tackles Ndume For Criticizing Tinubu’s Appointments Senator Sunday Karimi, Chairman of the Senate Services Committee, has urged his counterpart from Borno South, Senator Ali Ndume, to focus on pressing issues such as insecurity rather than playing to the gallery. Nudeme had accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of making lopsided political appointments favouring his Yoruba ethnic group when he appeared as a guest on Arise TV’s ‘Prime Time’ on Monday. Ndume alleged that Tinubu had been unfair to other parts of the country in the appointments he had made so far. However, Karimi, in a statement on Tuesday in Lokoja,…
Many Feared Killed In Violent Clash Between Delta State Communities Not less than three people were reportedly killed, following a violent clash between residents of Otor-Ewu in Ughelli South Local Government Area and Edjekota in Ughelli North in Delta State. It was gathered that the incident on Monday stemmed from an ongoing land dispute between the two communities. Local sources who spoke, revealed that the crisis began when members of a family from Edjekota reportedly entered a contested parcel of land. According to the report, an effort to avoid direct confrontation, residents of Otor-Ewu contacted the police, requesting that the…
Unregistered Maggi’ Floods Nigerian Markets This is so panic As unregistered white Maggie full markets but authority refused to act on it. There is a booming market for unauthorised and prohibited food items meant for industrial use in some markets in northern Nigeria. Despite repeated promises of action by regulatory agencies, including the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), the sale of such items like monosodium glutamate (MSG), an addictive, is thriving in Kano and Katsina markets. YEKEEN AKINWALE, who went undercover two years ago to expose the…
Nigerian Troops Tackles Police Over Rescued Kidnapped Israeli Citizen The Nigerian Army has strongly refuted claims made by the police regarding the rescue of an Israeli national, Gil Itamar, who was abducted in Taraba State. In a firm response, the military clarified that it was their operatives, supported by other security agencies, who successfully carried out the rescue operation. On Saturday, Captain Oni Olubodunde, the spokesperson for the Army’s 6 Brigade, corrected the records, asserting that the police had wrongly taken credit for the mission. Olubodunde emphasised that the military acted on credible intelligence and rescued the foreign national without…
VOA Stops Operations In Nigeria, Others Over President Trump The United States-funded Voice of America (VOA) has gone off air in Nigeria, Ghana, Niger, and several other African countries after President Donald Trump cut financial support to the global broadcaster. The shutdown, first noticed by millions of listeners in northern Nigeria, sparked panic when music began playing in place of scheduled broadcasts, a haunting reminder in the region of military coups or political takeovers. “People started calling in, worried that there had been a coup in America,” Babangida Jibrin, a journalist who worked with VOA’s now-defunct Hausa-language service was quoted…
Many Causalities As 40-Foot Container Falls On Vehicles On Expressway A road accident involving a 40-foot containerised truck has left one person dead and five others injured along the Cele Expressway, inward Oshodi, Lagos State. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) confirmed the incident, which occurred earlier on Saturday, involved the articulated truck, five commercial buses, and two private vehicles — a Toyota Camry and a Sienna bus. Preliminary reports from LASTMA indicate that the truck, which was carrying two large containers, suffered a catastrophic brake failure while moving at high speed. The driver lost control, causing the containers…