The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says a joint effort with the Delhi police in India, has led to the arrest of a notorious foreign-based human trafficker, Joy Shandy-Okah
Former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, and Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has swelled the ranks of presidential aspirants for the 2023 general elections following their declaration to contest for the coveted position in Abuja and Sokoto, respectively.
Some fish farmers have called on the Federal Government to provide funds, testing laboratories, and kits to improve their business. The fish farmers made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday following challenges encountered in doing the business.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday, said revenue-generating agencies of the Federal Government were capable of generating N3tn annually if efforts were made to ensure prudent spending.
The major attackers of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, since he unveiled his innocuous or harmless ambition to become the President of Nigeria in 2023, have been his kinsmen. His fellow Yoruba men. Some of them, also from Lagos State, where he comes from. Chief Bode George, for instance, is a Lagosian. Omo Eko. He is one of the key attackers of Tinubu.
A few years ago, Otpor, Serbia’s non-violent pro-democracy youth movement known for organising non-violent civic protests decided to play a prank. They took an oil barrel and taped a picture of President Slobodan Milosevic to it.
The merchants of death were in action again last weekend killing innocent souls in Kaduna and Niger states. As of the last count, over 29 were killed in attacks by terrorists at the weekend. In the South-West too, insecurity is rearing its ugly head yet again with news of attacks on passengers and kidnappings on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The National Assembly, on Monday, transmitted the reworked Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for assent
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, preferred 17 money laundering charges against former Governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, before the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Is WhatsApp down for you? If it is, then this may well be the reason. After months of uncertainty, D-day has finally rolled around and started today, millions of WhatsApp users are expected to lose support. In effect, their WhatsApp will stop working on their phones. The WhatsApp block is expected to be implemented against all those people with old operating software that the messenger app no longer wants to provide support to simply because they demand and use up too much of its resources, they are not safe anymore and they cannot make use of the numerous new features that WhatsApp has rolled out for users.
Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, Asari Dokubo, has faulted the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu for saying that he was behind the reported extradition of its leader from Kenya. He further tackled the group for the constant closure of businesses in the South-East region as a result of the sit-at-home order. During a Facebook live on Sunday, Dokubo said that “IPOB said I was the one that sold them out, that I betrayed them, am not the one who said it.
A kilometer of visibility is usually a standard landing minimum requirement but in the case of Gusau on the day in question, this minimum requirement of 1, 000 meters was down, fluctuating between 300-400 meters. “Clearly, this was unsafe in the absence of precise instrument approaches that provide guidance for the pilots. The flights into Gusau were, in view of this, canceled.”
Alhaji Lai Mohammed has decried the $35,000 (about N19.2 million) deposit being requested by Egyptian Authority from foreigners including Nigerians to operate a business enterprise in that country. Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, described the condition as unacceptable during a meeting with the Nigerian community in Cairo.
Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, says it restricted the accounts of 281 Nigerian users to prevent fraudulent activities and ensure the security of its platform. There have been complaints on social media by multiple users of the exchange platform, especially Nigerians. They alleged that they have been deprived of access to their Binance accounts without any explanation.
A few days ago, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) released a statement about the state of rehabilitation work at the Port Harcourt Refinery. The total cost of the rehabilitation project is $1.559m.
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has warned desperate politicians to refrain from influencing the policies of the incoming administration of Professor Charles Soludo, as he will step on toes to ensure adequate reformation of Anambra State.
The Kaduna State Government says the attack by gunmen on Zaman Dabo Village in the Atyap Chiefdom of the Zango Kataf Local Government Area of the state in the early hours of Sunday claimed 11 lives, while over 30 houses were razed. Kaduna State’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed the incident, said as of 4.30 pm, no fewer than 11 residents of the area had died. It was learned that the gunmen at about 3.00 am on Sunday stormed Atak Mawai ward in Zaman Dabo Village in the Atyap Chiefdom of the Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Apple rolled out iOS 15 last month, which comes with a lot of hidden features that make it easier for users to perform everyday tasks. For instance, iOS 15 has a Focus Mode feature that enables users to work on the task at hand.