The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday took possession of a suspected illegal oil bunkering vessel from the Nigerian Navy. The vessel, MT Takoradi, bearing one million litres of suspected automotive gas oil, and 11 crew members were handed over to EFCC at a brief ceremony at NNS Beecroft, Apapa, Lagos by the [...]
The Police in Lagos have arrested a 32-year-old man (name withheld), who claimed to be a graduate of the Imo State University, over alleged According to the News Agency of Nigeria, sources at the Victoria Island Police Station said the suspect was arrested on Wednesday afternoon after his gang attempted to rob a motorist on Akin [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on Thursday closed its case in the Adamawa Governorship election Petitions Tribunal after fielding 66 witnesses. Marcus Gundiri, the ACN gubernatorial candidate is challenging the return of Gov. Murtala Nyako as the duly elected governor of Adamawa.The ACN gubernatorial candidate, who joined the PDP, INEC and others as co-respondents, [...]
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau on Thursday apologised to journalists for government’s failure to address their grievances before their boycott of government activities. Mr. Abraham Yiljap, the Commissioner for Information and Communication, tendered the governor’s apology at an emergency congress of the Correspondents’ Chapel.The governor pledged to look into all the issues that led to the boycott, including [...]
About 124,000 residents in Ogun are living with HIV/AIDS, Mr Olaokun Soyinka, the state Commissioner for Health, said on Thursday. Soyinka said this in Abeokuta at a news briefing to mark the first anniversary of Gov. Ibikunle Amosun’s administration.The commissioner said the prevalence rate of the virus in the state stands at 3.1 per cent. He, however, [...]
Fifteen persons on Thursday died while 6 others were injured when a commercial bus collided with a car on Maiduguri-Damaturu road, in Nigeria’s northeast troubled by Boko Haram insurgency. Witnesses told newsmen in Maiduguri that the accident involved a mass transit bus owned by the state government’s transport company, the `Borno Express’ and a golf saloon car. One of the eye [...]
A bus driver, Isaac Onaiwu, was allegedly beaten to death by soldiers from the Nigeria Army School of Supply and Transport (S & T), Ugbowo, Benin City, southsouth Nigeria. Before meeting his untimely death in the hands of the soldiers, 48-year old Onaiwu was said to be an operator of a campus shuttle bus between [...]
