A fire outbreak at the Lagos Water Corporation, Onikan Waterworks, in the early hours of Thursday October 17, 2019, which disrupted water supply to the Onikan area of the State. In its preliminary investigation, the Corporation revealed that the fire started from the Waterworks Independent Power Plant (IPP) point and spread to the gatehouse, destroyed…
The federal government has said it will spend about N450 billion next year on fuel subsidy. This is despite the commitment by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to rehabilitate the country’s four refineries to stop importation of petroleum products. A former NNPC chief and ex-petroleum minister, Ibe Kachikwu, had also pledged that Nigeria would…
When anti-government demonstrations shook Iraq, authorities cut the internet to disconnect protesters and slow sharing of bloody images — a digital clampdown estimated to have cost the economy nearly a billion dollars. Officials say 110 people died in the violence in the first week of October, mostly protesters killed by gunshots. From the second day…
The Police, Monday, discovered another torture centre meant to be a reformation place for children with character deformation in Daura, Katsina state. Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari is a native of Daura. TVC reports that the Police raided the centre following a riot by the inmates over excessive abuses. The centre is being operated by one…
Amnesty International has launched a report chronicling attacks on the press in Nigeria since 2015. The report, launched in Abuja on Monday, said at least 19 journalists and media practitioners have been attacked in Nigeria between January and September 2019, the highest since 2015. Six journalists, including bloggers, were arrested in 2018, while four were…
MPope Francis’ main bodyguard Domenico Giani, the Vatican’s security chief, resigned Monday over a leak to the media of details of a financial wrongdoing probe. Francis accepted Giani’s resignation while noting he “bears no personal responsibility” for the leak, the Vatican said. The Argentine pontiff was furious over the publication of an internal police notice…
The Federal Government of Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the complete closure of the Nigerian border, placing a ban on both legitimate and illegitimate movement of goods in and out of the country. The Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs Service, retired Col. Hameed Ali, reportedly disclosed this in Abuja during a joint press briefing on…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office, on Monday, raided a nightclub in Osogbo, the Osun State capital and arrested cyber fraudsters numbering 94. The anti-graft agency in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said the nightclub popularly known as ‘Club Secret Underground’ is notorious for hosting parties…
Armed men stormed a mosque in the volatile north of Burkina Faso as worshippers were at prayer, killing 16 people and sending residents fleeing, security sources and locals said Saturday. The attack on the Grand Mosque in the town of Salmossi on Friday evening underscores the difficulties faced by the country in its battle against jihadists. One…
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) discovered crude oil, gas and condensates in the Kolmani River region at the border community between Bauchi and Gombe States, yesterday. This is coming eight months after President Buhari flagged off the exploration of oil in the Kolmani River II Well on the Upper Benue Trough, Gongola Basin, in the North-Eastern part of the…
