NATIONAL NEWS

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has assured depositors of the safety of their funds in Nigerian banks, reiterating the health of deposit money banks in the country.  The apex bank, in a statement on Wednesday signed by its acting Director of Corporate Communications, Hakama Sidi-Ali, dismissed reports that the Federal Government will take over […]

Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday, visited displaced victims of a Christmas Eve attack in the Bokkos Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The plane conveying Shettima touched down at the Yakubu Gowon Airport at 1pm. The Vice President, on an on-the-spot assessment of communities that were attacked by marauders in the Bokkos and […]

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, is dead. The governor, aged 67, died on Wednesday morning after a prolonged health battle. Akeredolu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), ex-president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and ex-Attorney General of Ondo State, was a second-term governor before his death. The state’s Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Bamidele […]

 Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), stated on Tuesday that more than 50,000 soldiers are presently involved in several peacekeeping operations across the country. The internal security operations include counter-terrorism efforts in the North East, separatist operations in the South East, and combating oil theft in the South South. Lagbaja gave the […]

A suspected kidnapper and child trafficker, Tayo Adeleke, had confessed to the Ogun State Police Command how he and other members of his gang had been kidnapping children to sell in neighbouring Benin Republic. It was reported that Adeleke is currently in the police net, where he is being interrogated over an attempt he made […]

A former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, has denied knowing a contractor, James Okwete, who was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly laundering N37bn. She also said she served as a minister with every sense of responsibility and would defend her actions whenever called upon […]

Cultists on Christmas Eve killed a broadcaster in Edo State, Hillary Odia. Odia, a staff of Independent Television and Radio, was murdered on Sunday night around 2nd East Circular, in Benin City, the state capital. A spokesperson for the Edo State Police Command, Chidi Nwabuzor, confirmed the incident, disclosing that “a sizeable number of arrests […]

Governor Caleb Mutfwang has criticised what he described as the “lack of political will” by the Federal Government to flush out marauding terrorists on the Plateau, saying that insurgents have been occupying schools in the Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of the state for five years without being dislodged. Mutfwang on Tuesday, said the crisis on […]

Air strikes by the Air Component of Operation Delta Safe have destroyed six illegal oil refining sites in Opu Arugbana in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. According to the Air Force, the operation happened on 23 December 2023, “The illegal sites were sighted clustered within a radius of about 80 metres at a […]

President Bola Tinubu has strongly condemned the heinous and brutal attacks in Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State, which resulted in the tragic loss of many lives. President Tinubu directed security agencies to immediately move in, scour every stretch of the zone, and apprehend the culprits. The president made the directive in […]