Former aviation minister, Osita Chidoka, has asked President Bola Tinubu to suspend the controversial Lagos-Calabar coastal road project. Trust News Africa reports that the Federal Government recently started the construction of the 700km Lagos-Calabar coastal road, which is being done by Hitech Construction Company Ltd. The road project has attracted considerable criticism from Nigerians, with many questioning the…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reported a significant interception at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. Trust News Africa reports that between January and April this year, officers seized fake $1.2 million notes, 148 drones, and five cryptocurrency machines. The confiscated items were handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and…
Former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, on Friday, finally agreed to submit himself to the Federal High Court in Abuja for arraignment on June 13 in the corruption charges against him. Bello’s lead counsel, Abdulwahab Mohammed gave the undertaking to Justice Emeka Nwite on Friday shortly after the request for suspension of trial by…
An evangelical Nigerian pastor based in the UK, Michael Oluronbi, 60, has been jailed for 34 years after he was convicted of multiple rapes of members of his congregation. A jury heard that some of his female victims became pregnant multiple times. He was also found to have used his position to abuse children and…
●Oba Adetona represents ancestral heritage of the Ijebu people-Abiodun President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Friday, conferred on the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, the second highest national honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of Niger (GCON) to mark the monarch’s 90th birthday celebration. President Tinubu made the announcement at the Olabisi Onabanjo…
He was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust while being the Registrar of Upper Sharia Court 1 Gusau, Zamfara State. Count one reads “That you Abubakar Garba Dandare Male Adult while being the Registrar Upper Sharia Court 1, Gusau Zamfara State, on or about the 4th day of December 2010,…
The Abuja Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 9, 2024 arraigned a former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Abubakar Sirika and three others: Fatima Hadi Sirika, Jalal Sule Hamma and Al Buraq Global Investment Limited before Justice S.C Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court sitting in…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr Chukwuemeka Woke as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority. This is contained in a statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, on Thursday in Abuja. Ngelale said that the appointee is a seasoned…
The United Nations Women Representative to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ms. Beatrice Eyong, said that security challenges arising from armed conflict, insurgency, banditry, and kidnappings across the country had exacerbated the prevalence of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Nigeria. Eyong, in her welcome address in Abuja on Thursday at the…
