The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Kogi Command, on Tuesday said drug abuse is the catalyst to all the insurgencies and kidnappings ravaging society today. The State Commander of the agency, Umar Yahuza, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Lokoja, stressing that the agency was focused on reducing the circulation…
Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has struck out two separate suits questioning the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s primary election that produced Asue Ighodalo as governorship candidate for the coming Edo State gubernatorial poll. The court held that those who instituted the suits from the political camp of former Deputy Governor…
Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, has slammed President Bola Tinubu’s administration for going on with the controversial Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project in defiance of public outcry. He expressed displeasure that the government is embarking on a project threatening jobs at a time of rampant unemployment. According to him, it’s…
Nigerians will have to pay more to get electricity meters as the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has announced deregulation for meters deployed to electricity consumers under the Meter Asset Providers scheme. The Commission disclosed this on Monday in an order signed by its Chairman, Sanusi Garba and Commissioner Legal, Licensing and Compliance, Dafe Akpeneye. The…
A former Director of Information Technology of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, John Ayoh, has explained how he collected $600,000 allegedly for contract gratification for the embattled ex-apex bank governor, Godwin Emefiele. Ayoh, while being led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN), on Monday, told…
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, has denied allegation of shooting at pro-Yahaya Bello protesters at its headquarters on Monday in Abuja Spokesman for the commission, Dele Oyewale said this while responding to a video trending on social media on the allegation of attack by the EFCC operatives on protesters. Oyewale told NAN that…
King Charles III will be returning to public duties after the positive effect of his cancer treatment. DOPETV recalls that King Charles has been on cancer treatment since he was diagnosed early February this year. According to NAN, in spite of the welcome news of responding positively to the treatment, the king still has cancer….
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has confirmed that 1,402,490 candidates out of 1,842,464 failed to score 200 out of 400 marks, in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board released the results on Monday. And it showed that the number who failed to score half of the possible marks was 78%…
A decline in the number of Americans who identify as religious and an increase in those who change religions means Christians may be on track to become a minority population in the United States by 2070. That’s according to the authors of a new Pew Research Center report, which assessed several hypothetical scenarios to model…
Maritime researchers have discovered weapons chest, and pieces of armour from a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden. According to a news release from Stockholm University, a fire on Griffin (also popularly known as the Gribshunden or Griffin-Hound) while sailing to Kalmar in 1495 caused it to sink. The ship served as the flagship…
