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CSO’s Aligns With Ogoni Women Against Oil Resumption. Katherine Abayomi, Port Harcourt For decades, Ogoniland emerged as a focal area within Nigeria’s growing oil economy, contributing major revenues to the country’s economy. Unfortunately, the benefits from oil resources have not reached the Ogoni people, particularly women, in any significant measure. Rather, Ogoni women and their…
NDLEA Arrests Parris Bound Businessman For Ingesting 74 Wraps of Cocaine Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 48-year-old businessman, Orizu Ifeanyi, while attempting to board an Air France flight 844 from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, to Paris, France, for ingesting 74 wraps of heroin and cocaine. Orizu…
By Emamuzo Iboma Professor Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, has been inaugurated as the new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The swearing-in ceremony took place precisely at 2:52 PM on Thursday. Yilwatda’s appointment was announced during the 14th meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee…
By Emamuzo Iboma The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) has petitioned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, accusing the federal government of enabling the continued dominance of physicians in Nigeria’s health and education sectors. In a strongly worded memorandum signed by its National Chairman, Pharm. Ambrose Igwekamma Ezeh, the ACPN condemned what it described as…
By Tracy Ohovwore The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of five internet fraudsters before Justice M. Itsueli of the Edo State High Court in Benin City. This was disclosed in a statement by the anti-graft agency on Wednesday, which noted that credible intelligence exposed the…
The trial of the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, on allegations of fraud suffered a major setback following a clash between parties over the forensic examination of a mobile phone and WhatsApp chats, submitted as evidence in his trial. At the resumed hearing of the case before Justice Rahman Oshodi of…
The First Prosecution Witness, PW1, Sulaiman Kwalla, in the trial of Bishop Katung Jonas and Okewole Dayo, chairman and secretary of Covenant Fadama Multi-purpose Cooperative Society, Jos, Plateau State, respectively, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, told Justice Sharon T. Ishaya of the Federal High Court, sitting in Jos, Plateau State that many of the victims of the alleged fraudulent cooperative society, including him and his wife were lured into investing their…
By Ebuwa Choice The Nigeria Police Force has assured the family of late Osaiyekemwen Ugbo and the general public that justice will be served following his reported death under tragic and suspicious circumstances in Abuja earlier this month. Ugbo was said to have died in unclear circumstances in the Federal Capital Territory, sparking concern among…
The National Council of State has approved the nomination of Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN, as the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Assistant to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday. He said that President Bola Tinubu presented Amupitan…
The first defence witness, DW1, Winifred Oyo-Ita, former Head of Service of the Federation, on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, while testifying in the trial-within-trial involving her, admitted before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, that she was cautioned by investigators of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before writing her statements…