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Senate Grants Tinubu Fresh N1.8tn Loan Request
The Nigerian Senate has approved President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s request for a $2.21bn external loan, barely 48 hours after the request was made. Tinubu made the request, which is about N1.8tn in the 2024 Appropriation Act, in a letter sent to the Senate recently. Tinubu had stated that the external…
Read More »B’Haram, ISWAP Using Girls as Suicide Bombers, ‘Sex Slaves‘ – NCTC
By Deborah Nnamdi The National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) has raised the alarm that young girls are being used in suicide missions and exploited as sex slaves by terrorist groups wreaking havoc in various parts of the country. This is just as the United Nations sought the establishment of a…
Read More »Federal, State, LGAs Share N1.41tn as FAAC October Allocation
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has distributed N1.411 trillion among the Federal Government, States, and Local Government Councils (LGCs) for October. This was contained in a communiqué from FAAC, signed by Bawa Mokwa, the Director of Press and Public Relations at the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation,…
Read More »Substandard Sugar In Nigerian Markets – FCCPC Warns
By Deborah Nnamdi The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has uncovered the presence of substandard and unregistered sugar products in Nigerian markets. According to a statement issued by Ondaje Ijagwu, Director of Corporate Affairs of the commission, these include smuggled brands from Brazil, such as Grupo Moreno, Terous,…
Read More »Panic in Abia LGA over Killing of 2 Policemen
By Deborah Nnamdi There is palpable tension in the Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State following an attack by unknown gunmen, which led to the death of several policemen, in the early hours of Wednesday. Eyewitnesses’ accounts indicated that the incident occurred around 7:30 am in the Ebem and…
Read More »Many Terrorists, 5 Soldiers Killed in Borno Clash
By Deborah Nnamdi The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has confirmed an attack by Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists on troops deployed at a stabilization operation pro-force and defence site in Gubio LGA of Borno State. A statement by the Director of Defence, Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, said five soldiers were killed…
Read More »Navy Aiding Illegal Bunkering – Tompolo
The Chairman of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo) has frowned at the recent faceoff between officers of the Nigerian Navy and his men in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, during the interception of an alleged rogue vessel. Tompolo spoke at the fact-finding visit of the…
Read More »Abia Rep’s Police Aide Killed in Attack on Lawmaker’s Team
By Deborah Nnamdi A police orderly was killed in an apparent assassination bid on the House of Representatives member representing Isiala-Ngwa North/South Constituency, Ginger Onwusibe, in Umuahia, the state capital, on Sunday evening. The incident, which was said to have occurred on Sunday around 8:30 pm, led to the death…
Read More »Dozens of Itsekiri Warri Communities at the Mercy of Ocean Surge
Dozens of Itsekiri communities on the fringes of the Atlantic Ocean in Warri South West Local Government Areas of Delta State are facing a bleak future over increasing ocean incursions. Naija Daily News’ findings revealed that Ogidigben, Ogheye, Aju-Daibo, and Orere, among others, could be wiped out in a few…
Read More »163 Trafficked Women Repatriated in 5 Months – NiDCOM
NiDCOM DG, Abike Dabiri-Erewa By Deborah Nnamdi The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has said that about 163 trafficked women have been brought home between July and November 2024 NiDCOM’s spokesperson, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, disclosed this on Friday at the repatriation of 13 trafficked Nigerian ladies from Ghana. Balogun said: “The Nigerians…
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