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At least 240 inmates have escaped the Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC) in Kabba, Kogi State, following an attack by yet to be identified gunmen. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) spokesman, Mr Francis Enobore confirmed the incident in a communique on Monday, stating that the attack took place at about midnight on Sunday. According to […]

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has asked all foreign airlines operating in and out of Nigeria not to deny Nigerians boarding over their inability to show evidence of payment for the day-7 COVID-19 PCR test or to generate a paid QR code. The Director-General of the NCAA, Capt. Musa Nuhu, announced this in a […]

Barcelona’s negotiations with Lionel Messi are over and the striker is considering other offers, the club’s president Joan Laporta said on Friday. Laporta said in a press conference he was not prepared “to put the club at risk” by renewing Messi’s contract, with Barca facing huge financial problems ahead of the start of La Liga. […]

Isa Pantami: Nigerians living in the US directed to register for NIN Nigerians living in the United States of America have been directed to register for the National Identification Number (NIN), according to the Consulate General of Nigeria in New York. This is coming after Nigeria’s Communications and Digital Economy Minister, Isa Ibrahim Pantami pushed […]

Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer has said that the Indigenous People of Biafra leader, will soon be released. Ifeanyi Ejiofor said this after revealing that there was no strong allegations to convict Kanu.He urged Biafrans to be patient and prayerful. “We’re in high spirit that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will soon come out of detention sooner than expected, […]

A High Court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has sentenced the former Chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on Petroleum Subsidy, Farouk Lawan to seven years in prison. Lawan during trial on Tuesday was found guilty of count one, two, and three bothering on corruptly asking for and obtaining same from Femi […]

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has insisted that it is compulsory for Nigerians to visit the enrolment centres to complete their National Identification Number registration. It stressed that it was important for people not to get carried away with the generation of NIN due to Bank Verification Number (BVN) record harmonisation with the National […]

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has approved the appointment of BASHIR JAMOH as the director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency NIMASA. JAMOH will replace DAKUKU PETERSIDE who was appointed in 2016 to head the maritime agency as his tenure will end on 10thMarch 2020. JAMOH, who hails from Kaduna, is also the current president […]

A Magistrates’ Court in Makurdi on Thursday sentenced 20-year-old herder, Aliyu Jedi for violating the laws against open grazing in Benue. The Magistrate, Mr Isaac Ajim, sentenced Jedi for violating the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranching Law of Benue state 2017, after he pleaded guilty to the charge. He however, gave the convict, who hails […]

The duo of Abia Uchenna and Eboh Chinedu students of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) who were arrested in November and detained in Bosnia-Herzegovina Border Camp has returned back to Nigeria. The students who were away in Croatia for the International University Table Tennis Tournament were arrested while on a walkout in the […]