A detachment of soldiers from the Nigerian Army has surrounded the Afaraukwu country home of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The soldiers arrived the community on Tuesday barely 48 hours after the clash between the Army and IPOB members on Sunday evening. The
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The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a container loaded with 1,100 riffles at Tin Can port, Apapa, Lagos state, marking the third seizure within eight months. It would be recalled that the Tin Can command had previously intercepted no fewer than 1,101 pump action riffles in two different operations at the port. The Controller-General, NCS, Col. […]
The Chairman, National Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, says he has provided N250 million as relief assistance to victims of the devastating flood in Benue State. Dangote said on Sunday in Lagos that this was in response to the request by the Benue State Government. He said that the committee had […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the application by Senator Dino Melaye challenging moves by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to effect his recall. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba on Monday held that all the complaints made by Melaye lack merit and deserve to be dismissed. On the complain of lack of fair hearing […]
American pastor, author and filmmaker, Bishop Thomas Dexter Jakes, has reportedly traced his roots to Nigeria, where he has discovered that he is actually Igbo. As posted on her Facebook wall on Friday, Mrs. Ifeanyi Adefarasin of the House on the Rock Church, notes that the bishop of The Potter’s House, a nondenominational American mega […]
Lawyers representing former directors of Arik Air have filed a N20 billion suit against the federal government and Ethiopian Airlines over recent claims of negotiating the takeover of the airline. The suit was instituted at the federal high court, Lagos, against Ethiopian Airlines, the federal ministry of transportation and the attorney general of the federation (AGF).
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