THE Federal Government has ordered an immediate investigation into allegations of extortion involving officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). Responding to reports across some social media platforms indicating that some NSCDC officers allegedly extorted ₦5.2 million from a group of young men traveling from Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State to Akure, Ondo State, Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said that anyone found culpable after the probe will be dealt with according to the laws. “We will not tolerate any form of misconduct from our security agencies,” Tunji-Ojo said. According to the statement, the minister noted that any…
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PETROLEUM product marketers on Monday lamented their losses as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited reduced the price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) to N880 per litre in Lagos and N935 in Abuja. From N925, some NNPC retail outlets in Abuja, Port Harcourt and Lagos changed their pump price to N880 on Easter Monday, while those in Kano adjusted from N950 to N935. The NNPC price reduction came barely a week after the Dangote refinery lowered its ex-depot price from N865 to N835 per litre. The $20bn refinery also directed its partners like MRS, Heyden, and Ardova to sell a…
THE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has inaugurated the new executive committee of the APC France Chapter in Paris, calling on all diaspora members to rally behind President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s reforms and Renewed Hope Agenda. The event took place in Paris at the weekend, where prominent APC members in Diaspora gathered. Speaking at the event, Dr. Ganduje emphasized the importance of unity among party members in the diaspora, stressing their role in supporting the administration’s economic transformation efforts. Ganduje acknowledged that while the reforms under President Tinubu may be seen as painful,…
THE Senate and House of Representatives have postponed resumption of plenary sittings from April 29 to May 6, 2025. The Clerk to the Senate, Andrew Ogbonna Nwoba and his House of Representatives counterpart, Dr. Yahaya Danzaria, disclosed this in separate internal memorandum dated April 20, 2025, addressed to all senators and House of Representatives members respectively. Both Chambers of the National Assembly on Thursday March 27, adjourned plenary till 29th of April to enable members partake in Sallah and Easter festivities. The memo signed by Clerk to the Senate, Nwoba, reads: “Distinguished Senators, I am directed to inform you that…
THE Supreme Court will fix a hearing date for the suit filed by 11 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party challenging the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State after its Easter vacation. The Director of Information and Public Relations at the Supreme Court, Dr. Festus Akande, said the matter would be taken up after the court resumes. “You know the court is on vacation now, but when the Justices return at the end of the month, a hearing date will be fixed for the matter,” Akande said. The suit, marked SC/CV/329/2025, questions the constitutional authority of President…
A FORMER Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President, Bola Tinubu, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has said that the North will, in the next six months, take a stand on who to support for the presidency in 2027. He said no politician can win the presidency in 2027 without the support of the region. In a video interview he granted in Hausa language, Baba-Ahmed, who appeared alongside a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Usman Yusuf, lamented the state of the nation and urged northerners to resist divisive and deceptive politicians ahead of the next general elections.…
THE immediate past Governor of Kogi State, His Excellency, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has felicitated Christians in Kogi State and Nigeria as a whole on this year’s Easter celebration, urging them to be guided by the lessons of love, sacrifice, peace and unity. Former Governor Bello congratulated the Christian faithful on the completion of the 40-day lenten period, saying their prayers, during the period and beyond, would aid the continued actualisation of the laudable goals of the President Bola Tinubu administration. In a goodwill message, signed by the Director of his Media Office, Ohiare Michael, on Saturday, the former Governor emphasised…
THE Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Olayemi Cardoso, and the CBN’s Director of Legal Services, Salam-Alada Kofo, have been sued for contempt of court at the Federal High Court in Abuja over their alleged refusal to comply fully with a Supreme Court judgment. Melrose General Services, the applicant, filed a contempt suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/532/2025, against Cardoso, Kofo, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and the Minister of Finance, listed as 1st to 5th respondents respectively. The applicant claims that the respondents have failed to release N220 million owed to them, despite the Supreme…
THE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, says the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, is too important to be left in the hands of opposition political parties. Ganduje said this on Thursday in Abuja while receiving some members of the opposition political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP, who defected to its fold. The decampees were led by the Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, Chris Maikalangu, at the Abuja old parade ground. Ganduje said that the development was a confirmation that FCT electorate was pleased with the APC and…
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OFFICERS of the Katsina State Police Command have arrested two suspected famous car thieves and rejected one million naira bribe offered to them by the suspects. They also recovered a suspected stolen motor vehicle, a cash sum of ₦1,000,000, three mobile phones, one power bank and a bunch of keys from the suspects as exhibits. The police spokesman, DSP Abubakar Sadiq, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. He said that on April 11th, 2025, at about 1500 hrs, while on a routine patrol along Birnin Kuka village, Mashi LGA, Katsina State, officers attached to Border Patrol Zone 4, Katsina,…
SOME members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) bloc in the All Progressives Congress (APC) have ruled out the possibility of leaving the APC. The bloc led by a former governor of Nasarawa State, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, pledged their loyalty to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Al-Makura and 22 other members of the CPC bloc who signed the statement asked members of the CPC bloc who are aggrieved to seek internal mechanisms of addressing their grievances. Aside from Al-Makura, the CPC bloc members who signed the statement were former governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari; Mallam Adamu Adamu,…
FORMER Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP) over alleged defamatory statements made against him by the suspended senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. In the petition, written and signed by his solicitor, Mr. N.A. ABUBAKAR Esq, to the IGP on Wednesday, Bello called on the Nigeria Police Force under his (IGP’s) leadership to invite Sen. Akpoti-Uduaghan to substantiate her allegation against him with credible evidence. “Where she fails to do so, cause her to be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of…
ADEGBOYEGA Oyetola, the minister of marine and blue economy, has directed the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to commence the disbursement of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF). Established under the 2003 Cabotage Act, the fund was designed to support Nigerian shipping companies with access to structured credit for vessel acquisition. But despite years of contributions in billions of naira from shipowners over the years, successive administrations failed to operationalise it. “We are doing what should have been done years ago,” Oyetola said. “This is not just about disbursing funds but a profound commitment to empowering Nigerian maritime…
Hints At Fresh Legal Action, Demands Clarification From Suspended Senator RENOWNED lawyer and former President, Nigerian Bar Association, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has said the sexual harassment allegation against Senate President Godswill Akpabio by the suspended Senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has significant contradictions. Agbakoba, who spoke at an elaborate press conference in Lagos on Tuesday, added that the allegation, “as it currently stands, falls short of the threshold for proving sexual harassment anywhere in the world.” He said, while individuals should feel safe to speak up in an ideal society, the principles of justice,…
GUNMEN reportedly stormed a prayer session at a remote mountain site in the Egbola area, along Agbaja Road in Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State and abducted an unspecified number of the worshipers. The incident is said to have occurred on Friday during a night vigil on the mountain. A woman identified as Mary Adams Gure was said to have been rescued by men of the state vigilante services who got the wind of the incident and mobilized to the scene and confronted the gunmen in a gun duel. According to the source, their attackers stormed the prayer ground,…
JUSTICE James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, threatened to send back the EFCC’s case file in the charge against Ali Bello, the Chief of Staff (CoS) to Kogi government to the Chief Judge, Justice John Tsoho, for reassignment. Justice Omotosho made this known following a complaint by Bello’s counsel, Abubakar Aliyu, SAN, accusing the EFCC of publishing untrue accounts of what transpired in court on the last adjourned date on its website against his client. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the anti-graft agency filed the charges in 2022, accusing Bello and Dauda…
OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 41-year-old alleged ex-convict and Malaysian returnee, Ndubuisi Udatu (aka Richard) with two giant music speakers used to conceal four large parcels of methamphetamine weighing 2.700kilograms for distribution in Yola and Mubi in Adamawa state, and across the border into Cameroon. The agency disclosed this in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement made available to Channels Television on Sunday. He said that Ndubuisi was arrested inside a commercial transport bus at an NDLEA check point at Namtari along Ngurore-Yola Road, Adamawa on Monday 7th…
SHAMSUDDEEN Bala Mohammed, the son of the governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has revealed that it would be difficult for his father to support the presidential bid of former vice president, Atiku Abubakar. The governor’s son revealed this in a post on his X handle @shamsudeen_bala on Saturday while responding to a tweet by a user expressing his desire to see Atiku Abubakar and Bala Mohammed work together to rescue the PDP. But Shamsu accused the former vice president of working against the re-election bid of his father and deploying Bauchi elites to challenge him. The user with the…
IN a retaliatory move, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Friday, led members of the party’s National Working Committee on a visit to former President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Kaduna State. The visit took place hours after former vice president Atiku Abubakar led the People’s Democratic Party delegation on a courtesy call to the former president. The delegation included former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai; former governor of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal, former governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa; former governor of Benue, Gabriel Suswam; former governor of Adamawa, Jibrilla Bindow; former Minister…