News Update

President Bola Tinubu has sanctioned severe penalties for civil servants who relocate abroad while continuing to draw salaries, as well as those complicit in facilitating such fraudulent activities.

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF’s Air Component of Operation Delta Safe, has destroyed 13 illegal refining sites and seven Cotonou boats in Rivers, Bayelsa and Imo states. The Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, AVM Edward Gabkwet, said on Sunday that the air interdictions also dispersed five J-5 buses attempting to siphon suspected crude oil products from surface tanks.

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 Bandits, in their numbers, ransacked Maidabino, the third largest town in Danmusa local government area of Katsina State, where they killed about nine people and abducted 50 others, mostly women and children. A resident said the attackers operated for several hours unchallenged due to their large number.
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 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has described the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development reforms as a clear testament to his administration’s economic diversification. Tinubu said this while receiving a symbolic gold bar from the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, in Abuja, at the weekend.

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The health Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Fahd al-Jalajel, has disclosed that 1,301 pilgrims died during the 2024 hajj. Speaking on state television, Jalajel said 83 percent of the deceased made the pilgrimage without the necessary permits.

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 The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has rejected a bill that seeks to establish a national agency for the regulation and management of ranches in Nigeria. Alhaji Baba Usman Ngelzarma, MACBAN president, announced his opposition to the bill at the weekend.

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 Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have discovered a snake-guarded shrine used to store illicit drugs at the Igor community, Benin City, the Edo State capital. Mr Femi Babafemi, the spokesman of the agency, on Sunday in a statement noted that the operatives detected a specially constructed large hole storage in a wall covered with wallpapers and fetish objects.

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 An early morning fire on Sunday razed the headquarters of the Christ Embassy Church located in the Oregun area of Ikeja, Lagos State. The police, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, other emergency responders and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LATSMA, were able to put out the fire.

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The Organized Labour has warned some governors not to plunge the country into a state of resentment, misery and impoverishment through wrong advice to President Bola Tinubu. It also reiterated that the position taken by President Tinubu on the two proposals before him from the final report of the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage would determine its next line of action.

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The Prime suspect in the abduction and murder of a student of Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike lkwo (AE-FUNAI) in Ebonyi State, Mr Maxwell Okeke has been arrested by the police.

The prime suspect, Ogobuchi Uhuo, a native of Ohankwu village, Ndufu-Alike, was arrested in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital after the police mounted a manhunt for him.

According to a source who confirmed the arrest, Uhuo has been a terror to students and members of his community for a long time.

 Okeke (the deceased) was abducted and killed by unknown persons early this month.

According to a student of the institution, the university community became worried after he was declared missing.

The source further said his decomposing body was later found near a river in the community.

The institution’s management had in a statement through the Public Relations Officer, Elom Iyke Ubochi fingered Uhuo as the prime suspect in the abduction and killing of Mr Okeke.

from dailypost