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A yet-to-be-confirmed number of residents are feared to have been killed following the outbreak of violence in Omor and Anaku communities in Ayamelum LGA in Anambra state. While details of the incident are still sketchy, Tochukwu Ikenga, spokesperson of the Anambra police command, said security operatives have been deployed to the area. […]

Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, has praised Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for his position on the naira redesign policy. Speaking on Monday in an interview on Channels Television, the minister said Tinubu stayed true to form as an “activist”. On January 25, Tinubu said […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has asked a federal high court in Abuja to stop the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling him from the party. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/139/2023, Wike through his lawyers — DY Musa, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN); Douglas Moru, and C.C. Chibuike — asked […]

A high court sitting in Kogi state has ordered the remand of Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for contempt. R.O. Ayoola, the presiding judge, ordered the inspector-general of police (IGP) to ensure the committal order is executed, just as he awarded N10 million against the EFCC. […]

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has promised to defeat banditry if elected. He said this on Monday at the APC presidential campaign rally in Katsina state. Speaking on the recent murder of vigilantes in Bakori LGA of the state by bandits, Tinubu said the APC remains committed […]

A federal capital territory (FCT) high court has compelled the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to go ahead with the full implementation of the naira redesign policy. Delivering a ruling on Monday in a suit marked FCT/HC/CV/2234/2023, the court restrained the CBN from extending the deadline on the use of old naira notes. […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arrested the operations manager of a commercial bank in the federal capital territory for hoarding N29 million of the new naira notes. The anti-graft agency shared details of the arrest in a statement released on Monday. The EFCC said the operations manager […]

An aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), on Monday, made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammad international airport in Lagos. In a statement on Monday by Wapkerem Maigida, spokesperson to NAF, the aircraft was said to have lost its tyres and did a “controlled belly land” at the Lagos airport. […]

Accidental strikes by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have killed over 300 civilians in the country, says a new report by SBM Intelligence. In the report titled “Air Force Mishaps” released on Monday, SBM said the incidents happened in pursuit of terrorists. SBM Intelligence, a research organisation, compiles and analyses data about happenings […]

The Jam’iyyatu Ansaariddeen Attijjaniyya (JAMAA) of Nigeria says its members have been allegedly killed by soldiers in Burkina Faso.  Addressing a press briefing at the weekend in Abuja, Sayyidi Yahaya, national secretary of the group, said 16 of its members were killed on their way to Senegal. He said members of the […]