FCT Abuja – Nyesom Wike, the coordinating minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has received a warning from Senator Ireti Kingibe, who represents the FCT, not to overstep his bounds without seeking approval from the national legislature. According to reports, Kingibe requested that the National Assembly carry out the legislative duties for the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) in a similar way to how the House Assembly carries out these duties for the state...
Following the catastrophic failure of Nigeria’s energy grid early Thursday morning, there is widespread blackout across the country. According to reports, the grid completely failed about 12:40 a.m. on September 14, 2023, resulting in a massive loss of supplies to power distributors nationwide. On Thursday morning, many sources in the power sector, as well as electricity distribution businesses, verified the situation to our correspondent. On Thursday, the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company Plc issued a warning...
The Nigerian Shippers Council announced that its complaints handling procedure had saved stakeholders N2.4 billion in the last five years. Mr Rotimi Anifowose, NSC’s Director of Planning, stated this recently in Lagos, when the council received the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola. According to Anifowose, the council gets complaints from regulated service providers and users via the Port Service Support Portal. Anifowose went on to say that some of the complaints...
Atoyebi Bamidele, commonly known as Bam-Bam, a Bureau De Change operator, was arrested by the police on Tuesday and brought before the Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly acquiring N157 million from traders at Alaba Market under false pretences. The police have three accusations of conspiracy, acquiring, and stealing against Bamidele, who conducts business as Prosocial International Limited. Force Criminal Investigation Department, Alagbon-Ikoyi, Lagos, filed a complaint against him with the court. Following a...
Obakin Ajibola was charged on Tuesday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s Ibadan Zonal Command with four counts relating to alleged theft of N251,685,000 from a company called Lee Fakino Nigeria Limited, where the accused had also served as a director. The defendant was said to have committed the alleged offence in Ibadan sometime in December 2022, according to a statement made by Wilson Uwujaren, the anti-graft agency’s head of media and publicity. Akindele...
Mistura Olasinde, a female resident of Starwood Estate in Galadimawa in the Federal Capital Territory, and her two daughters, Hauwa and Fatima, were kidnapped on Friday, September 8, 2023. The incident occurred at Kabusa Garden Estate while Mistura’s husband, Surajudeen Olasinde, an employee of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, and his family were returning home in their Toyota Highlander from Garki to Starwood Estate, which is where they live and is situated between the Galadimawa...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has been asked to be committed to prison for allegedly disobeying a court order, and an FCT High Court in Bwari has set Thursday, September 14, for a formal hearing on the matter. After receiving a committal charge from a lawsuit filed by plaintiffs’ attorney Michael Ajara and designated FCT/HC/CV/4068/2023, Justice Mohammed Madugu set the date. Otunba Camaru Lateef Ogidan and Mustapha Rabiu are...
The Bauchi State Police Command has detained a 30-year-old guy who is an expert at stealing motorcycles. The suspects, Bello Mohammed alias Faruk Manja, a resident of the Bakaro neighbourhood of the Bauchi metropolis, and Kabiru Danfulani, who is now at large, have been committing their evil actions for more than four years. In a statement made available to state press, Ahmed Wakil, the police public relations officer for the Bauchi state command, claimed that...
The Lagos State Police Command announced that it has detained one Nwagu Emmanuel for allegedly posing as a police commissioner to enable the release of a suspect from the state’s force headquarters. This information was revealed on Monday during the parading of Emmanuel and other suspects at the Police Headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos, by the state’s commissioner of police, Idowu Owohunwa, through the command’s public relations officer, Benjamin Hundeyin. In order to enable the release...
Tuesday, following an increase in school fees and other services provided by the institution, University of Jos, Plateau State, students blocked roads leading to the university in protest. The student demonstrators demanded an immediate reversal of the increase in tuition and other fees for the University’s services after being organised by the institution’s students union government officials. Armed with signs that read things like “We don’t want to drop out of school,” “If your children...
