Air Peace Suffers Major Flight Disruptions Over Bird Strikes On Two Aircraft Barely two weeks after an Air Peace plane narrowly escaped accident close to Abuja airport due to a bird strike, the airline on Friday said it has grounded two of its aircraft over similar incident. A statement signed by the management of the airline said the development has resulted in major disruptions of flights already scheduled by Air Peace. The statement sighted by Ibom Focus read : “Flight disruptions : Bird strikes. ” We hereby notify the flying public that due to bird strikes on two of our…
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JUST IN; FG Finally Speaks On Date For Subsidy Removal JUST IN; FG Finally Speaks On Date For Subsidy Removal Strong indications have emerged that the clamour for removal of fuel subsidy will not see the light on day in the current administration, as the federal government yesterday confirmed that no date has been fixed for the removal of the price cap on petrol. Permanent secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Gabriel Taminu Aduda, who revealed this yesterday at the closing of the Nigerian International Energy Summit (NIES) said that though the federal government is committed to subsidy removal, “ but…
Nigeria Policemen Brutalise University Students For Refusing To Allow Access To Their Phones Some police officers in Owerri, Imo State capital have physically assaulted and brutalised some students of Imo State University (IMSU) for allegedly refusing to submit their mobile phones to the officers to be searched. In a 45-second long footage of the incident, the police officers could be seen dragging and tearing the clothes of the victims while slapping, hitting and cutting them with a machete. It was gathered from the video recorded by some residents of the area that the police officers who operated in a deep…
Fresh Trouble Looms AsUS Writes FBI to Release Tinubu’s Drug Case File The last may not have been heard about the controversial drug case allegedly involving Nigerian President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the United States of America A retired United States mental health counsellor, Jeffrey Guterman has filed a request to the Federal Bureau of Intelligence, FBI, asking the security agency to release its file on Tinubu. The information Guterman is asking the FBI to release is related to Tinubu’s $460,000 forfeiture on a drug trafficking case he had in the United States of America in 1993, when he (Tinubu)…
Russia: War Looms As Fighter Jet Drops Bomb On Own City Of Over 400,000 People A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on a Russian city of more than 400,000 people late Thursday, leaving a crater 40 meters (130 feet) across, blowing a car onto a roof and damaging buildings in what state media called an “emergency release of an air ordnance.” A Russian Su-34 aircraft, a twin-engine fighter-bomber, released the munition over the city of Belgorod, 40 kilometers (24.8 miles) north of the border with Ukraine, according to reports from state news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS. “At around 22:15…
WATCH: Enough Is Enough: ‘I Didn’t Support Tinubu To See These Madness’ – Seyi Law Expresses Anger Seyi Law, a Nigerian comedian, has expressed his displeasure with those protesting the ‘Yoruba for Yoruba Jobs’ agenda in Southwest states. Tonia Somaga, a graduate from Anambra State and Labour Party (LP) supporter who drives one of the Lagos state blue rails, has been called out by some people who want the Lagos State government to fire her after her campaign for Peter Obi. Taking to Twitter, Seyi Law shared a photo of a man posing with a poster that reads ‘Yoruba Jobs…
I’m Proud Of Peaceful, Credible 2023 General Election, This Is One Of My Greatest Achievements, Says Buhari Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the peaceful outcome of the 2023 general election in the country “will go down on record as one of the proudest achievements of my administration in addition to our neutrality in the conduct of the elections.” In his goodwill message to Muslims on the occasion of the Eidel kabir celebration to mark the end of the 30-day Ramadan fasting season, President Buhari, in a release issued on Thursday night by his spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu, explained…
I’ve Not Eaten Meat For Long, Ramadan Chicken Thief Begs For Help A Kano State Sharia Court sitting in Dambare has ordered that one Nazifi Hassan be giving 20 lashes for pleading guilty to stealing a fowl in Gwazaye area of Kumbotso LGA. Hassan was arraigned before the court by the state police command for stealing a fowl in the holy month of Ramadan. He was arrested where he stole the bird and it was handed back to its owner. When the charge was read to him, he pleaded guilty, but explained to the court that it was long since…
LEAKED AUDIO: Moment Disgraced Adamawa REC, Yunusa-Ari Issued Extra Results Sheet To INEC Officials To Manipulate Election In Favour Of Binani Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the Residential Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa State suspended for violating the provision of the Electoral Act, 2022 was flown out of Yola, the state capital, in a private jet on Sunday. This followed a supplementary governorship election held in the state on Saturday. Yunusa-Ari on Sunday declared Binani as the winner of the poll even though the collation of results of the supplementary election had yet to be completed. He bizarrely allocated 221,303 votes to the Peoples…
Twitter ‘Moves Against’ Obi, Atiku, Others Removes Verification Badges Twitter’s blue tick removal tsunami has affected Peter Obi, Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, and others’ verification badges. A check on the handles of the Labour Party, All Progressives Congress, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate’s Twitter handles late Thursday shows that the blue tick has disappeared. Owner Elon Musk, who has seen his $44 billion investment in the site shrivel, earlier pledged to get rid of what he described as a “lords & peasants system.” Earlier dates set for the rollback of the ticks — predominately used by celebrities,…