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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Ibom Air Passenger Remanded in Kirikiri, Faces Lifetime No-Fly Ban Over ‘Unruly’ Conduct

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaIbom Air Passenger Remanded in Kirikiri, Faces Lifetime No-Fly Ban Over ‘Unruly’ Conduct

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)August 12, 2025

Comfort Emmanson, the female passenger who assaulted airline crew and security personnel on an Ibom Air flight from Uyo to Lagos, has been charged to court and remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Facility. Officials confirmed on Monday that Emmanson was arraigned before a magistrate court in Ogba, Lagos, which ordered her remand until 6 October after she failed to provide adequate sureties. The incident, described by the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) as “one of...

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Ezeagu Native Doctor Obieze, Accomplices Arraigned In Court, Pleads Not Guilty

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaEzeagu Native Doctor Obieze, Accomplices Arraigned In Court, Pleads Not Guilty

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)August 11, 2025

His Worship Osondu Chukwuani, of Court 1, Enugu North, in the case of Levi Obieze and cohorts, recommends that a higher court presides over the case, as the Magistrate Court has no jurisdiction to try capital offences. The Magistrate stated this after the defendants pleaded not guilty to the seven-count charge against them; Recall that Levi Obieze aka ‘E dey play, e dey show’ was arrested at Badagry-Seme border as he tried to flee the...

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Gov. Mbah Offers ROFR To Affected Ogige Market Traders At Nsukka International Market

NewsNigeriaPoliticsGov. Mbah Offers ROFR To Affected Ogige Market Traders At Nsukka International Market

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)August 11, 2025

The Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, has given Ogige Market traders whose shops were pulled down during the construction of the modern transport terminal at Nsukka a right of first refusal, ROFR. Governor Mbah made this proposal on Saturday during the laying of the foundation of the Nsukka International Market. Mbah assures the people that in 4 months, the 5000 shops at the Nsukka International Market will be ready for business. “We know...

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