Police Arrests Suspected IPOB Members Going for Robbery Operation

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaPolice Arrests Suspected IPOB Members Going for Robbery Operation

PilotnewsApril 29, 2023

Three armed robbery suspects, who have confessed to the Anambra State Police operatives as being members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have been arrested in Anambra State. Spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga disclosed this in a press release made available to journalists in Awka, Anambra State. Ikenga said the men who were on a robbery operation engaged policemen at a checkpoint in a shooting match, after they were...

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Adamawa Gov’ship Saga: Fintiri’s Security Aides, LG Chairman, Others In Detention

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAdamawa Gov’ship Saga: Fintiri’s Security Aides, LG Chairman, Others In Detention

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 29, 2023

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested Governor Fintir’s Chief Security Detail, Duty Officer, current Chairman of Guyuk local government council, and former Chairman of Madagali local government council who are Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Their arrest followed the brutalization of some INEC officials deployed to Adamawa State to supervise the rerun governorship election held on 15 April 2023 and the humiliation of the Deputy Director Department of State Services (DSS) in Adamawa by...

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Election Petition Tribunal Set Dates to Hear Petitions Arising From 2023 General Elections

NewsNigeriaPoliticsElection Petition Tribunal Set Dates to Hear Petitions Arising From 2023 General Elections

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 29, 2023

The National Judicial Council has released a list of 257 judges who will hear petitions arising from the 2023 Nigerian general elections and has Set the 10th, 12th, and 13th of May 2023 for the exercise. The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal and the State Election Petition Tribunals are expected to resume full operations after the Workers’ Day holiday in May. Below is the full list of the judges: Abia: Justices C.O. Onyeabo, O. Zik-Ikeorha, C.H....

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Maritime: Inter-Agency collaboration necessary for government’s safety efforts – Jamoh

National SecurityNewsNigeriaMaritime: Inter-Agency collaboration necessary for government’s safety efforts – Jamoh

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 29, 2023

  …As NIMASA, PAP move to engage youths in maritime opportunities Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh has said that inter-agency collaboration is important to sustain government’s efforts to curb criminal activities in the Nigerian waters and the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). Jamoh stated this when he played host to the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General (rtd) Barry Ndiomu in Lagos. Ndiomu...

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FIRS, Customs rescued Nigeria from collapse during covid-19 pandemic- Adesina 

NewsNigeriaPoliticsFIRS, Customs rescued Nigeria from collapse during covid-19 pandemic- Adesina 

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 29, 2023

Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, said that Nigeria survived economic stress during the pandemic, brought about by COVID-19 due to the support received by the government from two prominent agencies of government. According to him the two agencies are the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigeria Customs Service. The President’s aide stated this in Ikeja while delivering his goodwill message at one-day capacity building...

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Tell Nigerians your real identity, Timi Frank fires back at Sylva

NewsNigeriaPoliticsTell Nigerians your real identity, Timi Frank fires back at Sylva

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 29, 2023

Comrade Timi Frank, former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, to tell Nigerians his real identity and the authenticity of his academic certificates. Frank made this call on Friday in Abuja while reacting to a statement by Sylva in which he denied any wrongdoing for parading multiple names but failed to address germane issues concerning his true identity...

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Anambra Government Nabs, Parades 26 Suspected Illegal Revenue Collectors

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaAnambra Government Nabs, Parades 26 Suspected Illegal Revenue Collectors

PilotnewsApril 28, 2023

Anambra State Government has arrested and paraded over twenty -six persons suspected for touting and illegal revenue collection in Onitsha, Obosi and Nkpor. The arrest which is spearheaded by the Managing Director,  Operation Clean And Healthy Anambra OCHA Brigade, Comrade Celestine Anere in conjunction with joint security agencies is in continuation of the state government’s efforts in ridding the state of all kinds of criminal elements and building a state that investor friendly. Addressing the...

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Anambra Assembly Passes Resolution Empowering Ministry to Register and License Industry Players

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAnambra Assembly Passes Resolution Empowering Ministry to Register and License Industry Players

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)April 28, 2023

Anambra State House of Assembly after due consideration of the report by the House Committee on Culture, Tourism, Entertainment and Diaspora Affairs, the House unanimously granted the pleas of the Ministry of the Ministry communicated in a letter signed by the Commissioner. In a letter addressed to the House of Assembly, the Anambra State Commissioner for Culture, Tourism, Entertainment, and Diaspora Affairs, Hon. Don Onyenji, sort the leave of the House to enable the Ministry...

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JAMB reschedules 2023 UTME for 60,000 candidates

EducationNewsNigeriaJAMB reschedules 2023 UTME for 60,000 candidates

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 28, 2023

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has rescheduled its ongoing 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, for about 60,000 candidates. Fabian Benjamin, the board’s head of media and publicity, who made the disclosure on Thursday, said the rescheduling was due to the technical glitches experienced on the first two days of the examination. He said of about 947,000 candidates who sat for the UTME on Tuesday and Wednesday, 60,000 were rescheduled. Benjamin urged candidates...

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Plateau: Reps member condemns attacks, killing of six of his constituents

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPlateau: Reps member condemns attacks, killing of six of his constituents

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 27, 2023

Hon. Dachung Bagos, lawmaker representing Jos South/ Jos East at the lower chamber of the National Assembly has condemned renewed attacks and killing of six of his constituents in Farinlamba -Turu area  of Jos South Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State. Bagos in a press statement on Wednesday in Jos condemned the renewed attacks on communities in Plateau State by suspected herdsmen. The lawmaker described as sad, attacks on the affected community on Tuesday night during...

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