The naira yesterday appreciated to N1,580 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,590 per dollar on Monday.Similarly, the naira yesterday appreciated N1,560.57 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM). Data from FMDQ showed that the indicative exchange rate for NAFEM fell to N1,560.57 per dollar from N1,572.86 per dollar on Monday, indicating…
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, suggested on Tuesday that those behind the killing of Army personnel in Delta State may be mercenaries or foreigners, rather than Nigerians. The attack occurred on Thursday, March 14, when armed individuals ambushed and killed the soldiers during a peace mission to the Okuama Community in Ughelli South Local Government Area…
The Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch, OPWP, have destroyed terrorists’ logistics storage place in Palele near Shiroro, on March 15. AVM Edward Gabkwet, Director, Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force, NAF, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that the air strike east of Palele in Niger followed confirmation of a cache…
Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has met with President Bola Tinubu over the killing of over a dozen military personnel in Okuoma, a community in the state. Recall that 17 military personnel comprising a lieutenant colonel, two majors, one captain, and 12 soldiers were killed while on a “peacekeeping mission” in Okuoma community. While the…
The agreement reached between Igbo traders and the Kwara State government over controversial tax matters may have suffered a set back. This is because residents of Ilorin, the state capital, woke up on Monday to the notice that Igbo traders have shut their shops and businesses again, as they did recently when they protested alleged…
For the second time, the Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to relocate the detained Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu from the custody of the Department State Services, DSS, to Kuje prison in Abuja. Justice Binta Nyako while refusing the second application on Tuesday said that the DSS custody remained the most secured place for…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Tuesday provided an update on the forthcoming off-cycle governorship elections in Ondo and Edo states. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, provided the update during the quarterly consultative meeting with political parties in Abuja. He also disclosed that dates would be announced for fresh polls in Enugu South 1…
The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu on Tuesday informed the Abuja Federal High Court that the Department of State Services, DSS, was preventing his death while in their custody. Kanu claimed that DSS was patching him up so does not die in their custody. In his address to Justice Binta…
Okechukwu Isiguzoro, a chieftain of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Tuesday, urged presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, and Labour Party’s Peter Obi to assist President Bola Tinubu. Isiguzoro said Atiku, Obi, and Kwankwaso should assist Tinubu in tackling the economic…
A man, Stephen Moses, has expressed shock after paternity tests disclosed that he is not the biological father of his two-year-old son. He said he had not been able to recover from the shocking revelation of his supposed child having a sickle cell genotype, when he has an AA genotype while his wife is AS….
