The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Audi, has ordered the strategic deployment of over 40,000 personnel across the federation to ensure a peaceful Eid-el-Fitr celebration. Audi gave this directive due to the current security challenges and the need to proactively tackle crimes. The CG in a statement signed by the Corps…
Billionaire banker and Chairman of United Bank for Africa, Tony Elumelu, has described the possibility of acquiring one of the local clubs of the Nigeria Professional Football League as a nice idea. Elumelu made this known on Monday via his X (formerly Twitter) handle. The billionaire businessman was reacting to an X user’s suggestion that top businessmen…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, on Wednesday, approved an increase in electricity tariff for customers under the Band A classification. The Vice Chairman, NERC, Musliu Oseni, said the increase will see the customers paying N225 kilowatt per hour (KW/h) from the current N66. PUNCH Online notes that customers under Band A are those who enjoy…
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, on Thursday, alleged that Governor, Siminalayi Fubara was plotting to use the court to declare the state House of Assembly illegal. The claim by the opposition party came amid the renewed impeachment threat against Fubara by 27 members of the Assembly loyal to ex-governor Nyesom Wike….
The Defence Headquarters on Thursday released the names of terrorist kingpins killed during different operations in the northern part of the country. The DHQ noted that the terrorist commanders were killed in operations between January and March 2024. The names of the terror kingpins are Abu Bilal Minuki (aka Abubakar Mainok) – Head of Is-Al…
Controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, on Friday, pleaded guilty to the charges of naira abuse. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had, on Thursday, filed six counts of money laundering and abuse of naira against him. But before the charge was read to the defendant, the EFCC’s prosecution counsel Suleiman Suleiman, prayed…
A yet-to-be-identified female died and two other persons were injured as an articulated vehicle rammed into pedestrians along the Onitsha-Asaba bridgehead. It was gathered that the accident happened on Thursday and the cause of the crash was attributed to brake failure. An eyewitness said the vehicle had a brake failure as the driver was descending…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved an increase in electricity tariffs for customers under the Band A classification. The Vice Chairman, NERC, Musliu Oseni, said the increase will see the customers paying N225 kilowatt per hour (KW/h) from the current N66. PUNCH Online notes that customers under Band A are those who enjoy 20-24…
British police have opened an investigation into explicit messages sent to a lawmaker as part of an alleged sexting scam targeting MPs, in the latest cybersecurity scare to hit parliament. Conservative MP William Wragg acknowledged late Thursday that he had sent personal phone numbers of several colleagues to a man that he met on a…
Sixteen days after the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company disconnected University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State, for owing N495m, power has been restored to the health facility. PUNCH Online gathered that electricity was restored around 6.30 pm on Thursday. IBEDC disconnected the facility on March 19, the third time in less than two months, over…
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, on Thursday, failed to show up to open his defence before the seven-man panel probing allegations of perjury and leaking the government’s secrets against him. The retired Justice S. A. Omonuwa-led panel, which had its inaugural sitting on Wednesday in Benin, had adjourned till Thursday for Shaibu…
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, on Thursday, failed to show up to open his defence before the seven-man panel probing allegations of perjury and leaking the government’s secrets against him. The retired Justice S. A. Omonuwa-led panel, which had its inaugural sitting on Wednesday in Benin, had adjourned till Thursday for Shaibu…