Court Discharges Comfort Emmanson as FG Withdraws Charges, Lifts Lifetime Ban

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaCourt Discharges Comfort Emmanson as FG Withdraws Charges, Lifts Lifetime Ban

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 13, 2025

…KWAM 1 Appointed Aviation Security Ambassador A Lagos Magistrate Court in Ogba has discharged Ms Comfort Emmanson, the passenger accused of unruly behaviour on an Ibom Air flight, after the police formally withdrew the five-count charge against her. During Wednesday’s session, presiding Magistrate Olanrewaju Salami struck out the matter following an application by Police Prosecutor Oluwabunmi Adeitan, who informed the court that the complainant, the airline, and the authorities were “no longer interested in pursuing...

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Keffi Jail Break: Nine Inmates At large

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaKeffi Jail Break: Nine Inmates At large

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 13, 2025

Sixteen (16) inmates have escaped in a violent jailbreak that left five correctional officers injured, two of them critically at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Keffi, Nasarawa State, in the early hours of Tuesday. The incident had sparked nationwide manhunt and renewing concerns over prison security across the country. The spokesperson of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) Umar Abubakar who confirmed the incident in a statements, said the escape occurred when a group of inmates...

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NAF Decimates 592 Terrorists, Destroys 372 Assets In Borno

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNAF Decimates 592 Terrorists, Destroys 372 Assets In Borno

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)August 13, 2025

No fewer than 592 terrorists have been killed by the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, and 372 assets have been destroyed in 8 months of intensified operations against insurgents in Borno State. Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, who disclosed this during a visit to Governor Babagana Zulum in Maiduguri on Tuesday, said the operations, carried out under Operation Hadin Kai. He said the operations involved 798 combat sorties and over 1,500 flight hours,...

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NBA Condemns Ibom Air’s ‘Reckless’ Treatment of Passenger, Demands Redress

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaNBA Condemns Ibom Air’s ‘Reckless’ Treatment of Passenger, Demands Redress

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 13, 2025

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has strongly criticised the treatment of Ms Comfort Emmanson by Ibom Air, describing it as “reckless” and a violation of her right to dignity. The incident occurred aboard an Ibom Air flight on 10 August 2025, leading to her forcible removal from the aircraft and the imposition of a lifetime flight ban by the airline and the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON). In a press statement jointly signed by NBA...

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Keffi Prison Break: 2 Officers Injured, 9 Inmates on the Run

NewsNigeriaPoliticsKeffi Prison Break: 2 Officers Injured, 9 Inmates on the Run

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 13, 2025

In the early hours of Tuesday, 12 August 2025, sixteen inmates escaped from the Medium-Security Custodial Centre in Keffi, Nasarawa State, following a violent breach of the facility’s security. Some detainees reportedly “breached the security of the facility and attacked personnel on duty to compromise the situation, enabling 16 inmates to escape custody.” A statement by NCoS spokesperson Umar Abubakar disclosed that five officers sustained varying degrees of injury during the chaos, two of whom...

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Nigeria Exceeds OPEC Quota, Oil Output Hits 1.507 Million bpd in July

NewsNigeriaOil & GasNigeria Exceeds OPEC Quota, Oil Output Hits 1.507 Million bpd in July

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 13, 2025

In July 2025, Nigeria’s average daily crude oil production rose to 1.507 million barrels per day (bpd), a modest increase from June’s 1.505 million bpd, according to OPEC’s latest Monthly Oil Market Report. This surpasses the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) quota for the third time this year. OPEC emphasised that these figures were obtained via direct communication with Nigerian authorities, boosting the country’s status as Africa’s leading oil producer, ahead of Algeria,...

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Political Parties Step Up Campaign for Anambra South Senatorial By-Election

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionPoliticsPolitical Parties Step Up Campaign for Anambra South Senatorial By-Election

PilotnewsAugust 13, 2025

Three days to the Anambra South senatorial by-election, candidates of participating political parties have stepped up campaigns across the seven local governments of the senatorial districts. Altogether, about four political parties, namely, YPP, ADC, APGA, and APC, have intensified campaigns across the senatorial zone. The YPP candidate, Prince Oforbuike Okoli-Egbo, who is the youngest of all the contestants, is a diehard supporter of late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah to the end, and he is the only...

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Rights Group Accuses Nigerian Government of Plotting to Erase Christianity by 2075

NewsNigeriaPoliticsRights Group Accuses Nigerian Government of Plotting to Erase Christianity by 2075

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 12, 2025

…Intersociety warns of Fulani jihadists’ plan to impose Sultanate, as attacks intensify across Africa Nigeria is at the centre of a grave plot to wipe out Christianity and indigenous cultures by 2075, replacing them with a Sultanate system, a human rights organisation has warned In a “facts-laden” special report, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) accused the country of “headquartering 22 Islamic terror groups in Africa seeking to obliterate Christianity...

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Atiku Attributes Tambuwal’s Detention To Tinubu’s Agenda To Intimidate Opposition

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAtiku Attributes Tambuwal’s Detention To Tinubu’s Agenda To Intimidate Opposition

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)August 12, 2025

…Says Coalition Won’t Succumb To Anti-democratic Machination Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that the detention of former Governor Aminu Tambuwal by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is an agenda by President Bola Tinubu to intimidate and harass the opposition. Atiku, in a press statement on Tuesday, noted that the coalition won’t succumb to anti-democratic machinations to turn the country into a one-party state. It will be recalled that the EFCC detained...

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2027: PDP Can’t Be Pocketed By Anybody, Group, Presidential Hopeful Declares

NewsNigeriaPolitics2027: PDP Can’t Be Pocketed By Anybody, Group, Presidential Hopeful Declares

Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)August 12, 2025

Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, a presidential hopeful and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that nobody or group can pocket the main opposition party ahead of the 2027 presidential election. According to him, the party remains the only truly democratic political party in Nigeria, which can’t be controlled by any individual or group. While speaking in an interview on the AIT programme on Tuesday, Olawepo-Hashim said the PDP’s long-standing tradition of competitive primaries...

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