Category: Nigeria News

Tinubu working remotely from overseas, returns after Easter – Presidency

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The Presidency has said President Bola Tinubu continues to direct the affairs of state from Europe, despite being outside the country for nearly two weeks. It also said the President will return on Monday, April 21, after the Easter holidays. In a statement signed Thursday, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, explained that the President, who travelled from Paris to London at the weekend, “remains fully engaged in Nigeria’s governance” and is in “constant communication with key government officials.” Onanuga added that the President had given “directives…

Murder trial: I found Ataga in pool of blood, says Chidinma

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Chidinma Ojukwu, the prime suspect in the murder of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Michael Ataga, on Thursday, told a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square how she discovered Ataga’s lifeless body in a Lekki short-let apartment on June 15, 2021. Testifying before Justice Yetunde Adesanya, the former 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos said she had returned from buying food and juice, knocked on the apartment door and, receiving no response, pushed it open to find blood on the floor and Ataga lying in…

Epileptic electricity: FG to inject 1,900MW solar power into grid

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•Govt sets 8,000MW power goal by 2027, taps private sector for grid expansion The Federal Government has revealed plans to construct modular solar power plants with a combined capacity of 1,900 megawatts for the 19 northern states, as part of efforts to boost renewable energy adoption and expand the national grid. It also disclosed its target to generate and distribute about 8,000MW of electricity before the end of President Bola Tinubu’s first term in office in 2027. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, announced this during the sixth edition of…

Many groan as CBEX allegedly sweeps N1.3tn from investors

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Thousands of Nigerians have been thrown into financial despair following the alleged collapse of CBEX, a digital investment platform accused of sweeping over N1.3 trillion from unsuspecting investors in what appears to be another massive Ponzi scheme. On Tuesday, It was reported that several Nigerian women have been seen breaking down in tears after reportedly losing millions of naira to CBEX. According to circulating reports, the platform became inaccessible after users experienced difficulties withdrawing their funds. Many later discovered that their account balances had been wiped to zero. On X…

Insecurity: Be alive to your duties, PDP tells Aiyedatiwa

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The Peoples Democratic Party, Ondo State chapter has urged Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to be alive to his duties of safeguarding the lives and property of residents of the state. The party’s state director of media and publicity, Mr Leye Igbabo, stated this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Akure. Igbabo said that the party was alarmed by the alleged ceaseless killings of hapless residents of the state by gunmen. He said that victims of such killings were lawfully engaging in their daily activities needed to bring food to their…

Police sack officer who killed one, injured two in Calabar

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The Cross River State Police Command has dismissed an officer, Inspector Effiong Bassey, who killed one person and injured two others in Calabar, the state capital. The state police spokesman, Irene Ugbo, confirmed the dismissal in a statement on Monday, saying Bassey had been charged to court and remanded at the Afokang Correctional Centre. She said “The Police Officer has been duly dismissed, charged to court and remanded at Afokang Correctional Centre. We visited the deceased family on the same day and also went to the University of Calabar Teaching…

FG rolls out flood preparedness campaign in 30 high-risk states

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The Federal Government will begin a nationwide flood awareness campaign in May 2025 to educate and sensitise Nigerians on the risks and safety measures related to flooding. This was disclosed by the Deputy Director of the Department of Flood, Erosion Control and Coastal Management at the Federal Ministry of Environment, Mr. Kunle Awojemila, in an interview with our correspondent on Sunday. The Federal Government had revealed that approximately 1,249 communities across 176 Local Government Areas in 30 states and the Federal Capital Territory are expected to experience significant flooding between…

TCN restores power to Bayelsa, Rivers after vandalised line repair

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The Transmission Company of Nigeria TCN  has restored bulk electricity supply to Bayelsa and parts of Rivers State following the repair of its vandalised 132kV Owerri–Ahoada transmission line TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, in a statement in Abuja on Monday, said that the line was connected to the grid on April 11 at about 6 p.m. Mbah said that the connection followed the completion of the reconstruction efforts on the line due to a vandalisation that caused the collapse of four transmission towers. ”With this restoration, the…

Presidency dismisses US court order on Tinubu, Atiku differs

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The Presidency on Sunday dismissed any notion of fresh revelations emerging from a United States court order directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration to release files on President Bola Tinubu’s past investigation. It insisted that the records, which date back to a drug trafficking investigation in Chicago from the early 1990s, have been publicly available for over three decades and posed no fresh concerns for the President. This followed a ruling by Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, who instructed…

Plateau killings: IG orders deployment of assets, tactical squads

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The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the immediate and comprehensive deployment of police tactical assets to troubling communities in Plateau State. In a statement on Wednesday morning, the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the deployment was in response to the series of attacks and killings that have plagued some communities in Bokkos Local Government Area since March 28. Adejobi said the decisive action underscores the Nigeria Police Force’s resolve to restoring peace, ensuring the safety and security of all residents, and bringing perpetrators of these heinous…