Army sacks terrorists’ strongholds in North East and North West

National SecurityNewsNigeriaArmy sacks terrorists’ strongholds in North East and North West

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 12, 2024

The Nigerian Army has said it is recording massive successes in the fight against terrorism, insurgency and banditry. This is as troops of Operation Hadarin Daji and Operation Hadin Kai have raided the various strongholds of terror gangs in the North East and North West regions, evicting the terrorists. Major General Kevin Aligbe, commander of the Training and Doctrine Command Nigerian Army (TRADOC) in Niger State, disclosed this on Wednesday during the 2023 West African...

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Nigeria Army vows to address insecurity in Isi-Uzo LG, Anambra

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNigeria Army vows to address insecurity in Isi-Uzo LG, Anambra

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)January 11, 2024

The Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has promised to take decisive steps in addressing the incessant insecurities witnessed in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area in Enugu state. Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja made this assurance when he paid a working visit to the Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah with his team; the working visit to the Government House, Enugu, was to assess operational situations under the jurisdiction of the 82...

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Enugu Govt. Set to Sanitize LG System, Begins Staff Verification Exercise

NewsNigeriaPoliticsEnugu Govt. Set to Sanitize LG System, Begins Staff Verification Exercise

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)January 11, 2024

All Enugu State Local Government staff are directed to proceed to their respective Local Government Area (LGA) Payroll Officers to obtain their Verification Number(s) for their mandatory online and physical verification exercise. In a public announcement signed by Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, Secretary to the Enugu State Government & Chairman Enugu State LG Staff Verification Committee, all LG employees with their verification numbers can access the portal to fill out the Online Verification Form after which...

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Foundation in Anambra rewards local businesses with monetary assistance

NewsNigeriaFoundation in Anambra rewards local businesses with monetary assistance

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)January 11, 2024

Five small business owners awarded  N200,000 Naira each Anambra State born Chief Executive Officer- CEO of Zidora Group, Dr. Arinze Madueke, has supported no fewer than five small business owners with the sum of N200,000 Naira each (two hundred thousand Naira), as grants for their businesses. Earlier during the festive season, Dr. Madueke said that one of the major ways to solve the problem of insecurity in Anambra State permanently and across the Southeast is...

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Former president Jonathan loses elder sister

NewsNigeriaFormer president Jonathan loses elder sister

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)January 11, 2024

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has lost an elder sister, Madam Obebhatein Jonathan. She died on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at the Federal Medical Centre,   Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, after a brief illness, at the age of seventy. A statement by Jonathan’s media office, noted that the deceased popularly known as Amissi was a retired teacher, business woman, a loving mother and grandmother who lived a dedicated life of service to God and humanity. According to the statement,...

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Minister stresses importance of local value addition in mining sector development

NewsNigeriaPoliticsMinister stresses importance of local value addition in mining sector development

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)January 11, 2024

…Rallies support of int’l community The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has reiterated the importance of value addition in the mining sector development, even as it seeks support of the international community. Alake, while speaking as a panelist at the opening session of the ongoing Future Minerals Forum (FMF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, titled “Why the Super Region? Should the Super Region Have Its Own Critical Minerals Strategy?” stressed that it is...

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Fire Razes Down 17 Shops In Adamawa

NewsNigeriaFire Razes Down 17 Shops In Adamawa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 11, 2024

Properties worth millions of naira were lost to fire incidents in less than a week in Yola North and Numan local government areas of Adamawa State due to bush burning and fluctuation of electricity. Victims of the inferno are now counting losses as the Adamawa State Government had sympathized with them. On Saturday 6/1/2024, the inferno destroyed ten shops located beside the premises of Federal College of Education (FCE) Yola, in Jimeta, Yola North local...

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Court Sentence 55-year-old To Life Imprisonment For Raping Minor

Accidents and SafetyCrime & SecurityNewsCourt Sentence 55-year-old To Life Imprisonment For Raping Minor

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 11, 2024

A Magistrate court in Minna Niger State has sentenced one Yau Ibrahim, a 55-year-old of Angwa- Daji area of Minna, the state capital to life imprisonment for raping a 6-year-old girl. The convict who raped the minor on August 23, 2023, also infected the victim with “incurable venereal disease.” Senior Magistrate, Hafsat Abdullahi Bawa Wuse, who sentenced the rapist, rejected the plea for leniency by the convict, “because of the magnitude of the offense, as...

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Air Peace expands regional operations with Cotonou, Abidjan routes

NewsNigeriaTransportationAir Peace expands regional operations with Cotonou, Abidjan routes

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 11, 2024

Air Peace, on Wednesday, announced plans to begin direct flight operations from Lagos to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and Cotonou, Benin Republic, on Monday, 22 January. This is contained in a statement signed by the spokesperson of the airline, Mr Stanley Olisa, on Wednesday. The new routes are part of the airline’s strategic plans to expand its regional destinations across the continent. “The new routes were further confirmation of the airline’s unyielding drive to connect the...

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Ex-Power Minister Olu Agunloye jailed for $6bn fraud

NewsNigeriaPoliticsEx-Power Minister Olu Agunloye jailed for $6bn fraud

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)January 10, 2024

A former minister of power and steel, Olu Agunloye, joined the inmates of Abuja’s Kuje prison on Wednesday after a court ruling to that effect. Agunloye is standing trial for fraudulent award of contract and official corruption 21 years after he left office. He served under President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government between 1999 and 2003. According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the ex-minister suspiciously awarded a US$6 billion contract for a hydropower project...

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