September 2023 - ProbitasNews

The Ministry of Solid Minerals Development has issued a warning to international businesses that support banditry in order to carry out illicit mining activities within the nation. This was revealed in a statement released on Friday by Alaba Balogun, the head of press and public relations for the Ministry, on behalf of Oladele Alake, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development. When a group from the Nigeria-China Chamber of Mines, led by Dr. Olugbenga Ajala, the...

On Thursday morning, the minister, Dave Umahi, was confined inside his office by protesting Ministry of Works employees. The staff said that Umahi was being conceited and that the minister had barred personnel who had arrived late from entering the ministry. The Housing and Works Ministry’s union members made the decision to shut the ministry down. Furthermore, the workers prevented the minister from leaving the office premises by blocking entry and exit into the building....

Governor Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been dismissed by the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which is seated in Kaduna. According to Probitasnews, the tribunal ruled the state’s 2023 governorship race to be unresolved on Thursday. The judges avoided the actual hall and the decision was made by Zoom. Isah Mohammed Ashiru, the candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), filed the petition. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was directed by...

With immediate effect, the heads of 21 parastatals, agencies, and government corporations under the FCT Administration have been removed of their appointments by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Nyesom Wike. In a press conference held in Abuja on Wednesday, Mr. Anthony Ogunleye, Director of Press for the Minister’s Office, made this declaration. Ogunleye determined which agency heads were impacted and listed them as follows: 1. Chief Executive Officer and Group Managing Director, Abuja...

The Eastern Security Network at Orsumohu and Nnewi South LGA in Anambra State, as well as Osuihiteukwa in Orsu LGA, Imo State, and the camps of the Indigenous People of Biafra, have been denied by the Nigerian Air Force as having been bombed. The pro-Biafran organisation insisted that the military had misled them, citing the fact that the places were inhabited by innocent civilians, and that ESN did not have camps in any of the...

Ifeanyi Ezenwankwo, a middle-aged man from Nanka in Anambra State’s Orumba North Local Government Area, is currently in police detention for allegedly inflicting physical injuries on his wife, Ekwutosi, and burying a newborn infant in a shallow grave. Ezenwankwo was reported to have buried the newborn baby in order to conceal his unlawful activities with a 16-year-old female whom he impregnated and bore the child for him. Ekwutosi, a local of Agbiligba Nanka community, said...