Tanzanian authorities said on Monday that they intercepted a fuel tanker ferrying 65 Ethiopian illegal immigrants in the southern highlands, an official said. Majid Mwanga, the Mlele District Commissioner in the southern highlands region of Katavi, said officials from the Immigration and Tanzania Forest Services Agency intercepted the empty fuel tanker at around 1.00 p.m. […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it plans to address speculations in the foreign exchange market by injecting more dollars into market. This is even as the Federal Government proposed to inject more dollars into the market. Acting Governor of the CBN, Folashodun Shonubi, announced this while addressing journalists after meeting with President Bola […]
An Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday sentenced a teenage boy, Ishola Yusuf, to two years and three months in Borstal Correctional Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun for attempted theft. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, sentenced Yusuf to the Boys Correctional Facility also known as Borstal Correctional Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The magistrate sentenced the […]
The National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has appealed to the Federal Government to preventing further hike petrol price. Mr Adeolu Ogunbanjo, National Deputy President of NAPTAN, made the appeal during an emergency meeting of the association on Monday in Lagos. President Tinubu, in his broadcast to the nation in July, said the government […]
Gov. Seyi Makinde, on Monday in Ibadan, inaugurated a 12-man governing board for the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed “Amotekun”, operating in Oyo State. The governor restated his administration’s commitment towards ensuring that the state is secure and habitable for all and sundry. He pledged to continually support the corps with logistics, health insurance, training […]
Members of ECOWAS Parliament were divided over taking military action as an option to tackle the political situation in Niger Republic. About 22 parliamentarians participated in the virtual extraordinary meeting, on Saturday, to discuss the political crisis in Niger. Some of them called for actions that would nip in the bud of military incursion into […]
Andoni Local Government Council of Rivers, on Friday, disbursed N5 million in business grants to 50 persons living with disabilities (PWD) in the area. The Council Chairman, Erastus Awortu, distributed N100,000 to each of the beneficiaries at Ngo, the council’s headquarters. Awortu said the money was take-off grants for beneficiaries. The funding followed a four-day, […]
The Police Command in Abia says they have arrested a suspected child trafficker for allegedly kidnapping and transporting three girls to Ghana. The news of the arrest was contained in a statement signed by the Abia Police PRO, Maureen Chinaka, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) announced the arrest in a statement in Aba. Chinaka […]
An expert in climate change and development, Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, has expressed dismay over negligence of rural dwellers in intervention efforts on climate change adaptation and mitigation in Nigeria. Okereke spoke at the final stakeholders’ workshop organised to share key findings on understanding the effectiveness of local communities in taking necessary action through Locally-Led Adaptation […]
Officials of Colmar City have confirmed 11 people dead, on Wednesday, following a fire earlier in the day at a holiday home for disabled people in Wintzenheim, northeastern France. Nathalie Kielwasser, deputy prosecutor of Colmar, said all people sleeping on ground floor of the two-storey building managed to escape. Five of those who lived on […]