A man has died while fasting for 19 days. The 58-year-old unnamed man died while embarking on the spiritual dry fasting, according to Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin on Tuesday. Hundeyin said that the incident happened in the Alagbado axis of the state on Monday at about 6:00 am. The PPRO…
The new Presidential Jet acquired by President Bola Tinubu is a refurbished Airbus A330 sourced from Mid East Jet in Saudi Arabia, according to reports. The report reveals that President Tinubu recently traveled to France aboard the Airbus A330, which replaces the 19-year-old Boeing B737-700 (BBJ) purchased during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. Investigations show…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abia State chapter, has slammed the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu over his statement that as the number six citizen in Nigeria’s political hierarchy, he will not allow another party to win his state in 2027. The party stated that Kalu’s number six position is…
The Kano State Hisbah Board has said that its operatives intercepted a vehicle carrying over 24,000 bottles of beer in the state. The Islamic police said the beer was intercepted on BUK Road, near the Aminu Kano College of Islamic and Legal Studies. The board’s Deputy Commander General, Dr. Mujaheed Aminudden, who made this known…
The contract dispute between Nigeria and Chinese investment group, Zhongshang Fucheng Industrial Investment Ltd, seems to have taken a new turn. The Chinese firm accused Ogun State Government of violating a 2001 trade treaty between Nigeria and China when its rights to a free trade zone were rescinded in 2016. The company dragged Nigeria before…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has successfully repaid 60% of a $1.036 billion loan that it took in September 2021 to finance the acquisition of a 20% stake in the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Free Zone Enterprise (DPRP FZE). As of December 31, 2023, NNPC has repaid $625 million of the principal…
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said Nigerians deserve to know the cost and age of the new presidential jet and the years it has been in operation. In a series of posts via his official X handle on Tuesday, the former Governor of Anambra State also said Nigerians deserve…
The Nigerian Air Force said on Wednesday that its fighter aircraft of Air Component Operation Hadin Kai successfully executed an air interdiction mission on August 16, 2024, in Arina, Southern Tumbuns, Borno State, killing top terrorist commanders Munzir Arika, Sani Dilla, and several others. Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, Director of Public Relations and Information,…
No fewer than 27 kidnappers, including members of the Auto Pilot, also known as Unknown Gunmen, a notorious breakaway faction of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), loyal to the Finland based Simon Ekpa, which terrorized Enugu and its environs had been gunned down in shoot-outs with security operatives at various locations across the…
Former Anambra State governorship aspirant, Chief Rommy Okoli has called on leaders to be responsible The Elder Statesman who stated this in a press briefing in Awka to mark his birthday said that the level of hunger and starvation among Nigerians at the moment is worrisome. He said that it is even more heartbreaking to…
