The Nigerian troops of ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ North East, have killed six Boko Haram terrorists after a raid on their camp in the fringes of Sambisa Forest in Borno State. It was gathered that the terrorists were eliminated during a fighting patrol by the troops in conjunction with the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and HYBRID forces on September 7, 2023, at Garin Ba’aba in Bama Local Government Area of the state. Bama is located...
The Nigerian Army says its operatives and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in synergy with TANTITA Security Services have uncovered and destroyed two revamped oil bunkering camps in Egbema West, Ohaji Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State. Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director, Army Public Relations, in a statement, said the troops completely shut down the illegal refining site containing 44 drums, three reservoirs of estimated 30,000 litres capacity of illegally refined...
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in collaboration with pro-democracy group, Network Against Corruption and Trafficking, has exposed a community in Abuja, where hard drugs are sold like normal food items. NDLEA and NACAT have also carried out a sensitization exercise against the use of hard drugs in the community known as Abattoir in Abuja. The sensitization came on the heels of an investigation carried out by NACAT, where the group discovered that Abattoir,...
Armed men suspected to be cultists terrorizing parts of Rivers State have killed a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, identified as Bako Amgbanshin. It was gathered that the unfortunate incident occurred on Friday night in Ahoada East Local Government Area of the State. The assailants were said to have ambushed the DPO and his men while on an operation to raid some criminal hideouts in the Ahoada East axis. The operatives had engaged the miscreants in...
Forty one, 41, suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested in Warri, Delta State. Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the EFCC, arrested the suspects on Friday, during a sting operation. Their arrest followed actionable intelligence on their nefarious activities in the area. The suspects were identified as Jackson Shebenor, Good Gospower, Akiefa Desmond, Johnson Ogheneuwegba, Okonta Williams, Ochuko Godfrey, Marvelous Oghogho Ekpuke, Ofoluwa Sheriff, Eyengho Richard, Daniel Avwerosuo Iniovorhire, Favour Ighoatudu, Stanley David, Gospower...
Laolu Akande, a former spokesperson for ex-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has said the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to e-transmit results of the last general elections has ‘shattered’ the trust of Nigerians in the body. While speaking on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday, Akande stated that despite assurances from the commission to transmit results electronically, it failed to upload election results on the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV). His words: “It...
Election petition tribunals across Nigeria have so far dismissed at least nine senators, House of Representatives members, and National Assembly members. The court has dismissed members of the opposition PDP, NNPP, and Labour Party as well as the ruling APC. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was instructed to revoke the lawmakers’ Certificate of Return after the tribunals dismissed them. In other instances, the courts ruled the elections were invalid and ordered a repeat within...
Dennis Idahosa was declared the winner of the February 25 Ovia Federal Constituency election by the National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Benin City, which dismissed two petitions for lack of merit and incompetence. The petitioners, Barr Omosede Igbinedion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Epele Asemota of the Labour Party (LP), each independently petitioned the court to contest Idahosa’s victory. Asemota and Igbenedion had accused INEC of conducting the election in...
Paul Nnamchi (LP-Enugu State), a representative, has disagreed with the decision of the National Assembly Election Tribunal’s three-person panel that declared his election to be invalid. He was fired from the NASS by the tribunal on Friday, and Cornelius Nnaji, the PDP candidate, was pronounced the winner. This was said in a statement made by Nnamchi shortly after the verdict through his media advisor, Mr. Sam Nwanze. The ruling “does not conform to the provisions...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and Ocean Marine Solutions (OMS) collaboration has been urged by the Niger Delta region to increase support from the federal government in order to expand the nation’s production of crude oil. While the nation’s crude oil output continued to be poor, falling short of budget benchmarks and OPEC quotas, the Federation Government reported last week that roughly 400,000 barrels of crude oil were still lost to thieves every...
