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Fuel price: Uncertainty looms as crude oil hits $93.50

Concern over a potential increase in petrol prices in Nigeria has grown as a result of the ongoing increase in the price of crude oil on the global market. According to Probitas News, the commodity sold on Monday for $93.55 per barrel. This comes amid the depreciation of the Naira in the foreign exchange window, with the currency trading at N980/$1 on Monday on the parallel market. The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN,...

Police in Jigawa apprehend Hassan Adamu, security guard for stealing school supplies

Hassan Adamu, 30, a security guard, was taken into custody by the Jigawa State police on suspicion of stealing property from Government Girl Unity Secondary School in Kazaure. DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, the command’s spokesman, confirmed the arrest in a statement provided to ProbitasNews. The Vice Principal of Government Girls Unity Secondary School in Kazaure, One Bashir Ahmed, complained to the Kazaure Police Station that he had discovered some school property had been stolen by...

PDP links Supreme Court fire outbreak to Atiku, Obi’s appeals

The Supreme Court fire incident on Monday was deemed suspicious by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to ProbitasNews, on Monday morning at around seven in the morning, a portion of the supreme court caught fire. The terrible incident’s cause is yet unknown, but the Federal Capital Territory Police Command has started an investigation. In response, the PDP cited the court-pending appeal of election matters and claimed the development was suspicious in a statement released...

APGA laments rising level of insecurity in Southeast, requests Tinubu to free Nnamdi Kanu

On Monday, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) leadership demanded that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu free Nnamdi Kanu, citing the rising level of insecurity in the southeast. The national head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who are under prohibition, Kanu has spent years in jail by the DSS. In a statement released to reporters in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State, and signed by its National Youth Leader, Eze Onyebuchi Chukwu, the APGA...

  Police arrest former chairman of Ogun for accusing Abiodin of embezzling LG money

Wale Adedayo, the impeached Chairman of the Ijebu-East Local Government, has once more been taken into custody by Ogun State police. On Monday afternoon, Adedayo posted on his Facebook page to announce his arrest. Adedayo claims that the state government’s purportedly submitted appeal to the police led to his incarceration. “At Eleweran, Abeokuta, the Ogun State Police CID is receiving the son of guy. It’s said that a petition was written against me by the...

Zamfara: FG criticizes Gov., denies reaching deal with terrorists

Reports claiming that the federal government is in talks with infamous bandits and other terrorists wreaking havoc in Zamafara State have been refuted by the administration. According to a report by ProbitasNews, the governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal, charged that the FG was secretly holding talks with terrorists in a few local government districts of the state. The governor requested that the FG elucidate the accusation and look into the acts of certain dishonest...

“It is regrettable that Imo have poor leadership.” YPP governor candidate Opara

Mr. Kemdi Opara, the Young Progressives Party’s (YPP) candidate for governor of Imo State in the off-cycle election scheduled for November 11th, has voiced his displeasure with the state’s leadership. Opara made the claim on Sunday during an interactive discussion about Imo State’s future with media in Owerri, the state capital. Speaking about his political campaign for the upcoming governorship and his plans to change the State, Opara stated that he entered the race to...

Aiyedatiwa, deputy governor of Ondo, disputes receiving notice of gross misconduct from State Assembly

There had been reports that the Deputy Governor had sued the Ondo State High Court on Monday under the case number AK/348/2023, asking the court to stop the Ondo State House of Assembly from carrying out the impeachment process against him.   The State House of Assembly has not delivered a notice of gross misconduct to Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the deputy governor of Ondo State. In a press release issued through his office on Monday, Aiyedatiwa...

Chisom Nwogbo in court for allegedly stealing iPhone 14 Pro, four phones in church

A mother of two was charged by the police on Monday at the Wuse Zone II Magistrates’ Court in Abuja for allegedly stealing phones during church. Chisom Nwogbo, the 26-year-old defendant, is accused of criminal conspiracy and theft, two counts she denies. Nwogbo works as a cosmetics artist. Oyeyemi Adeniyi, the police prosecutor, said the court that on September 13, a Miss Esther Silas from Mana Apartment in Dawaki, Abuja, submitted a petition to the...

Army: “Allegations of diversion of troops’ allowances are untrue.”

The Nigerian Army declared on Monday that it will not tolerate any kind of money theft and that it firmly opposes any action that could lower unit morale. Reports of corruption and misappropriation of troops’ Ration Cash Allowance (RCA) by Nigerian Army troops stationed to protect Chinese workers at the ongoing Zungeru Hydro Electricity Dam Project in Niger state were refuted by the Army as incorrect. Contrary to the implication in the online report, preliminary...