The Senate ad hoc committee investigating alleged corruption and inefficiency in Ajaokuta Steel Company and NIOMCO has uncovered illegal mining activities at the National Iron Ore Mining Company, NIOMCO, in Itakpe, Kogi State. Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central district, raised the alarm on Monday during an oversight visit to the company. She expressed concern…
Disturbed by the rise in the number of hypertension and diabetes patients in Ekiti State, Governor Biodun Oyebanji has expressed readiness to tackle the menace. The governor made this known on Monday while flagging off the federal government-powered Project 10 Million campaign against hypertension and diabetes tagged “Know Your Number, Control Your Number” in Ado-Ekiti,…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed sadness over the blackout in the northern part of the country. The Shiroro-Kaduna transmission line was recently vandalized, leading to a total blackout in about 17 northern states. Following the ugly development, President Tinubu on Monday met with the Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu, where he directed the…
The National Orientation Agency in Akwa Ibom State has said the government traced six Mpox cases to one household in the state. The development made the government commence a sensitisation exercise to educate the people on the prevalence and prevention of Mpox disease in the state. This is coming as a report from the ministry…
No fewer than 20 suspected miscreants were arrested by the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps, otherwise known as KAI, at various locations across the state. This is just as operatives of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, who were monitoring compliance to prevent illegal dumping on road medians, were reportedly attacked by miscreants along the…
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Tuesday that an overnight Israeli air strike killed more than 55 people in a residential building in the northern district of Beit Lahia. “More than 55 people have been martyred and dozens more wounded are under the rubble of a five-storey residential building belonging to the Abu Nasr family that…
The Ogun State Government has shut down Obada Grammar School, Obada, Idi-Emi over the death of an SS2 student of the school, Monday Arijo. This followed the arrest and suspension of the teacher allegedly responsible for the death of the student on Friday last week as a result of corporal punishment. The principal of the…
Authorities in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, are investigating two separate incidents in which ballot drop boxes were set on fire on Monday, destroying hundreds of ballots as voters cast early votes ahead of next Tuesday’s presidential election. Police believe the fires, both involving incendiary devices, were coordinated, with a similar vehicle seen at each…
A member of the House of Representatives, Alex Ikwechegh, who assaulted an e-hailing (Bolt) driver who went to deliver a package to him has tendered a public apology. Ikwechegh admitted that his behaviour did not meet the standards expected of a public official. He issued the public apology on Monday, saying, “As a public servant,…
Israel faced a mounting international backlash Tuesday after its parliament approved a bill banning the main UN aid agency for the devastated Gaza Strip. Despite objections from the United States and warnings from the UN Security Council, Israeli lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the bill banning the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from working in…
