Nigeria

Suspected serial killer, Gracious David-West has pleaded guilty to 9 of the 10 Count charge bordering on murder levelled against him by the Rivers state Police Command. David-West pleaded not guilty to the last charge of attempted murder of several female genders in Rivers State, saying he is “a child …

The Nigerian Customs Service has reacted to a traveler’s claim of being maltreated by its officers because of her tribe and gender.   In a statement released by Customs’ spokesperson Joseph Attah, the woman identified as Mrs. Udensi Adaeze Nwagboliwe who arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport onboard a British Airways Flight 083, …

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Monday October 21, announced that the Federal Government has sent over 150 Nigerians to Chinese universities to study railway engineering.   Amaechi who disclosed this while defending his Ministry’s budget before the National Assembly’s joint committee on marine transport, said the aim of sending …

18-year-old Elikor Ehud, pictured above, has been arrested by men of the Ejigbo police station in Lagos state for allegedly storming a church in the area and carting away the church’s tithes and offering.   A statement released by the state police command’s spokesperson, Bala Elkana, says on October 1st, one …

Following the outcry of Nigerians to the introduction of USSD charge by telecom companies, the Federal Ministry of Communications has ordered the companies to suspend the service charge immediately.   The telcos had on Sunday, October 20, 2019 notified customers that they will be charged N4 per 20 seconds when …

The Nigerian Customs Service, Kano/Jigawa command has impounded 250 bags of foreign rice worth over N5.5m of duty paid value that was concealed in a fuel tanker along Daura-Kano road. Displaying the seized tanker and bags of rice before newsmen, the controller of the command, Comptroller Nasir Ahmed, said the new method of …

President Muhammadu Buhari on his twitter handle, @MBuhari, made it clear his administration’s intentions with paramount regards to the issues of infrastructural facilities development. In the words of the President: ”I firmly believe that if we get infrastructure right in Nigeria, our roads, rail, ports; Nigerians will mind their businesses, …

The Katsina State Police Command, said on Friday, that the joint patrol teams of the police and the military, on Thursday morning, engaged suspected bandits at Kadobe village in Jibiya Local Government Area of the state in a gun duel. The command said some animals were recovered from the hoodlums …

The Christian Association of Nigeria has warned the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) to stop associating Christ with criminality.   CAN issued the warning over MURIC’s director, Ishaq Akintola’s comment on the abduction and conversion of 9 Kano children who were reunited with their parents after 5 years.   Akintola said: “kidnapping for Christ …

Babachir Lawal, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has said the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has the qualities to become Nigeria’s next president in 2023. Babachir, who was sacked from office, stated this in Yola, Adamawa State, while speaking with newsmen. He was …