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NewsNigeriaOil & GasNNPCL: Nigeria will be net exporter of petrol in 2024; no more importation

PilotnewsNovember 24, 2023

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, expects to cease the importation of refined petroleum products by December 2024. The oil firm is also working towards making Nigeria a net exporter of refined petroleum products by the same deadline. “We will no longer be talking about fuel importation by the end of 2024. I am very optimistic that this will crystallize,” the Group Chief Officer of the NNPCL, Mele Kyari said on Thursday at a...

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NewsNigeriaPoliticsI deserve to be in the Guinness Book of World Records: Tinubu

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 24, 2023

President Bola Tinubu has said that his past and present accomplishments as governor and now president make him deserving of a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Speaking at the 10th German–Nigerian Business Forum in Berlin earlier this week, Tinubu said his reforms as Governor (1999–2007) that made Lagos State the fifth-largest economy in Africa and paved the way for him to lead Africa’s most populous nation is the reason he deserves the...

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Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaFive inmates regain freedom in Anambra

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)November 24, 2023

Five Amawbia Correctional Service Center inmates in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State have been set free. A non-governmental organization (NGO), Abu Mmaduaburochukwu Foundation, perfected their bail conditions. The freedom ceremony was held in the presence of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) officers, Nigeria Police delegates from Zone 13 Ukpo, led by its Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ihunwo Josephine, members of the press, and the management team of the Foundation at...

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Crime & SecurityNewsNigeria53 Year Old Rape Mentally Challenged Minor

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 23, 2023

A 53-year-old suspect identified as Usman Tela Ahmadu, a resident of Samunaka, Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa State has been arrested for Sexually Assaulting a Mentally Challenged Minor. According to the spokesman of the command, SP Suleiman Yahya Nguroje, the Suspect, hails from Maiduguri in Borno State and resides in the Area as an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) receiving gifts and undue support/ sympathy from the locals. The release reads in parts: “The...

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Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaGovernor Fintiri Intervenes In Police, Soldiers Clashes

PilotnewsNovember 23, 2023

Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has summoned security meeting in the Government House, Yola Wednesday aimed at resolving the conflict that ensued between some Army and Policemen in Yola, the state capital which resulted into the death of a soldier and policeman. Addressing Journalists after, Governor Fintiri said investigation into the matter was ongoing with a view to ensuring peace and justice. “The meeting has resolved the conflict and that the security chiefs in...

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NewsNigeriaNAF strengthens counter-insurgency with winging of 12 combat pilots

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)November 23, 2023

Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), has charged 12 newly winged pilots of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to justify the efforts and resources invested in their training by contributing their best towards sustaining the successes recorded in the various theatres of operation within the country. According to Air Marshal Abubakar, the Service has continued to conduct independent and joint operations aimed at not only decimating the criminals and denying...

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EntertainmentNewsNigeriaBurna Boy is Billboard’s Afrobeats artiste of the year

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 23, 2023

…Rema’s ‘Calm Down’ tops the Afrobeats song chart. Burna Boy is the highest-ranked Afrobeats artiste of 2023 in the United States, according to Billboard. Burna Boy, who finished second in 2022, secured this year’s top spot with 26 leading entries throughout the 2023 chart year: November 19, 2022–October 21, 2023. Rema, one of Nigeria’s most decorated artistes of the year, snagged the silver medal from his seniors in the music industry including Davido and Wizkid...

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Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaTerrorists on the run as military raid hideouts, rescue 31 hostages

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 23, 2023

A gang of bandits terrorising Tangaza local government area of Sokoto State abandoned their captives and fled when men of the Nigerian Army came upon them unexpectedly. The terrorists were hiding in the thick Buani forest in Alya Fulani village. The soldiers rescued 30 hostages and burnt down the fleeing terrorists’ camps. The operation, the Nigerian Army said in a social media post on Wednesday, was carried out on 21 November by the Joint Task...

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Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaFBI hails Olukoyede’s appointment as EFCC Chair

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 23, 2023

Jack Smith, the legal attache of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, in Nigeria, has extended a hand of friendship to Olanipekun Olukoyede, the new chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Smith, during a courtesy visit to the EFCC headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday, said Olukoyede has an impressive track record to head the anti-graft agency. “I came to congratulate you on your appointment. I did my homework and research and...

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NewsNigeriaPolitics5,000 civil servants risk not getting December salaries

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 23, 2023

The Yuletide season might be tough for no fewer than 5,000 civil servants in Nigeria. They are likely not to receive their December salaries, raising concerns about how they will fare as the country is in the grip of an economic depression. The national president of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, Tommy Okon said the affected workers have discrepancies in their dates of first appointment and birth. “The physical verification exercise...

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