The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has sued the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, over an alleged defamatory publication.
Through his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu accused the AGF of defaming him by claiming he jumped bail.
He went on to demand N20bn for damages.
Ejimakor, who shared copies...
The Nigeria Immigration Service, on Monday, opened its portal for the 2023 recruitment for interested applicants across the country.
According to a statement on the official website of the Service, the recruitment is open to applicants who want to apply for the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board.
The...
Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, has appealed to the Nigerian government to “unconditionally and immediately” release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
The governor of Anambra state made the call at a political gathering in Awka, the state capital on Saturday, January 14.
Governor Soludo went further to...
Herdsmen have reportedly destroyed 30 hectares of cassava farm at lgbaraoke, in lfedore council area of Ondo State.
The cassava farmland, estimated at over N10 million, is owed by the former Information and Orientation commissioner in the state and former National vice chairman (South) of the People’s Democratic Party, Dr....
In 2012, the Sanusi Lamido-led Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced cashless policy with the aim of reducing the quantum of physical cash that is being used in the system in an attempt to cut down on cash handling expenses of banks.
The policy was also targeted at getting more...
Hackers have stolen the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher has revealed.
The breach “will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing”, Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity monitoring firm Hudson Rock,...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has publicly declared support for Peter Obi to win the 2023 presidential election.
Obasanjo made the declaration on Sunday in an open letter to the youths in Nigeria.
The letter coincides with the New Year celebration and comes eight weeks to the general polls.
He said though other...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo used to be a chimera. His influence was mythical yet sweeping. In the past, Nigeria was too small to contain his stature — as he dominated the horizons across Africa and beyond. He lived up to his legend of being a human Orisa. He is,...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it will commence registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from Saturday, January 14 to Tuesday, February 14, 2023.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, December 20, by the board’s Head of Media and Information, Mister Fabian Benjamin,...
The report by the National Bureau of Statistics that about 133 million Nigerians live in poverty would be a recipe for a new dimension of hunger never witnessed in Nigeria, a civil society organisation under the aegis of the International Human Rights Commission warned on Friday.
While describing the report...
The newly introduced N1,000 notes are now being counterfeited.
Banks issued the redesigned notes on December 15, 2022, in accordance with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directive.
However, days after the release, the husband of an unnamed Point of Sale operator displayed fake N1,000 notes to the public.
He claimed the notes...
The World Bank says five million Nigerians have been pushed into poverty as a result of inflation in 2022.
The Bretton Woods institution said this in its latest Nigeria Development Update (NDU) released on Thursday.
In the report titled ‘Nigeria’s Choice’, the bank said the country’s inflation has worsened since 2020,...
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday, accused the Department of State Services, DSS, of denying him access to his medications for nine days.
He also accused the secret police of starving him of food.
Kanu’s Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor disclosed this after his routine meeting...
Osun Governor Ademola Adeleke has alleged his predecessor, Gboyega Oyetola, took N18 billion loan after he lost the July 16th, 2022 Osun governorship election.Adeleke said this on Thursday during a meeting with Osun State Traditional Rulers at Osogbo, Osun State Capital, where he also confirmed that the state is...
Three children of the late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola have dragged the federal government before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice in Abuja, demanding $10 million damages over the assassination of their mother by an alleged killer squad of the late head of state, Gen....
Former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was responsible for his travails at the London Court where he had been in detention over alleged organ harvest.
Ekweremadu, who has been in...
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to address the media to put an end to the confusion surrounding the sit-at-home order in the South East.
This is following a series...
Justice Z.B. Abubakar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered for the unconditional release of Mazi Solomon Onyegbule, one of the supporters of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
The court also awarded N50 million as “compensatory and exemplary damages.”
The lawyer to Kanu and...
Popular Nigerian singer, Kizz Daniel has hit his first 100 million views on YouTube with his hit track, ‘Buga’.
The song which has caught the attention of both young and old in the country was released in May 2022.
The hit track recently got listed as the number one song in...
Some surrendered fighters have disclosed that late Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, left behind 83 concubines.
Daily Trust had reported how Shekau died during the battle of supremacy with another insurgent faction in Sambisa forest, Borno State in May 2021.
Speaking in Maiduguri on Saturday, Special Adviser to Borno State governor...
…Say there are pros, cons of new policy
Bankers, Insurers among others in the nation’s financial institutions, have given conditional support to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, new N100,000 cash withdrawal limit, saying there were prons and cons of the new monetary policy.
Under the umbrella of the Association of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will begin the distribution of the Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) today, December 12, as confirmed by its Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education, Mr. Festus Okoye.
Speaking at a parley with the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) from the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital...
More details have emerged on how a student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Aminu Adamu, was trailed and arrested over a post against First Lady, Aisha Buhari.
Naija News learnt that the police track team trailed the 24-year-old to his school where he was arrested.
Recall that Aminu in...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has again provided an insight into his source of wealth.
Tinubu in an interview on BBC in London said he was the most investigated and most accused former governor yet nothing has been found on him.
Daily Trust reports that many...
Notorious terrorist and bandit leader, Bello Turji, has revealed those benefiting from terrorism in Nigeria.
Naija News reports that Turji was among 18 terrorists declared wanted by the Defence Headquarters in the middle of November 2022. A price tag of N5 million Naira was placed on each of the criminal’s...
Barely a month after President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the first crude oil exploration in the Northern part of Nigeria, reports emerging claims Bauchi and Gombe State have begun to claim ownership of the oil fields.
Naija News reports that the four Kolmani oil fields, which lie in the Gongola Basin...
It was a black Friday for the Nigerian entertainment industry as it lost yet another prominent singer, Sammie Okposo to the cold hands of death.
Okposo, 51, died yesterday in Lagos after he reportedly slumped while he was being treated for exhaustion.
His colleague, Righteousman confirmed the sad news to Saturday...
The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, says the Kano Gold Souk and other regional projects being executed by the ministry will become operational by 2023.
Mr Olamilekan Adegbite, the minister, said this when he was featured at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja.
Adegbite said the souk...
ASSENGERS without proof of their National Identification Numbers (NIN) would no longer be allowed to board the train on the Abuja-Kaduna route, Transportation Minister Mu’azu Sambo said at the weekend.
The minister also told passengers to brace ticket fare hike.
He said train services, which were suspended after the March 28...
Damaged Naira notes continue to surface following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) redesign of the nation’s currency unveiled by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, November 23, 2022.
In a video making rounds on social media, bags of damaged naira notes were uncovered at a warehouse in an unknown location...
Malawi's Vice-President Saulos Chilima has been arrested by the country's anti-corruption agency on allegation of accepting money in exchange for awarding government contracts.
He is accused of receiving $280,000 (£230,000) from a British businessman “and other items”.
The British businessman, Zuneth Sattar, is under arrest in the UK where he is accused...
Some doctors have raised the alarm over the number of doctors available in Nigeria saying the ratio is now one doctor to 6,400 patients, as a result of brain drain.
The Chief Medical Director, University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State, Dr Oluwole Ige and an Associate Professor of...
The Federal Government has filed an amended seven-count terrorism charge against Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
The amended charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, which was entered before the Federal High Court in Abuja, contained all allegations against Kanu that were earlier sustained by the court.
The...
Ten days after he was declared wanted, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested fleeing Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels, Alhaji Ademola Afolabi Kazeem (a.k.a Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed) over offences bordering on exportation and trafficking of illicit drugs as well as money...
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has asserted that the 2023 presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was handed to an entirely wrong person.
The former Governor of Kano State submitted this while addressing a bloc of supporters yesterday in Ebonyi State.
Naija...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly set 'to strip passports of citizens who criticise Russia's war with Ukraine' just days after the humiliating withdrawal of his troops from Kherson.
In March, the Russian parliament brought in laws that criminalised protesting the conflict in Ukraine and 'discrediting' Russia's army. Those who disobeyed were told...
Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has said Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, made a total of N307 Billion in debt recovery in two years.
DAILY POST reports that this was contained in a statement made on Wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and...
Festus Keyamo, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has shed more light on the raging controversy about Bola Tinubu and his alleged involvement in drug trafficking in the United States.
Over the past few months, there has been public scrutiny of background of Tinubu, APC presidential...
The Families of 70 Gambian children who died of acute kidney injury (AKI), allegedly linked to consuming Indian made cough syrups, have rejected monetary compensation offered to them by the Government of Gambia.
In October 2022, the World Health Organization announced a global alert over four brands of cough syrups,...
The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Supreme Court to compel the Federal Government to release him in compliance with the October 13 judgment of the Court of Appeal.
His request is contained in a cross-appeal he filed in the appeal by...
The naira has dropped to a new low of N885 per dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange (FX) market, popularly called the black market.
The figure represents a depreciation of N70 or 8.6 percent from the N815 it traded last week.
Speaking to TheCable on Monday, some Bureaux De...
Kano State Magistrate Court presided over by Aminu Muhammad Gabari on Monday, November 7, 2022, ordered 40 lashes be administered on two skit makers, Mubarak Isa Muhammad (Uniquepikin) and Nazifi Muhammad Bala for defaming the character of Governor Ganduje on their Tiktok accounts.
The court also ordered the duo to sweep and wash...
The Lagos State Police Command has revealed that the autopsy conducted on the corpse of Ifeanyi Adeleke, son of Davido and his fiancée, Chioma Rowland, revealed that he died as a result of drowning.
Benjamin Hundeyin, the state Police Public Relations Officer confirmed the new development on Saturday, November 5. He also...
Nigerians have been warned by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) against use of some Toyota Lexus vehicles over “faulty programming”.
The alert was issued in a statement released on Friday, November 4, by Bisi Kazeem, FRSC’s public education officer.
The agency said the warning became necessary after Toyota’s recalled 14,799 “defective” Lexus vehicles.
It was also...
A gang of hackers, OPERA1ER, stole at least $11m from companies in Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, 11 other African countries, and Argentina.
This is according to a new report from Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, entitled, “OPERA1ER: Playing God without permission,” in collaboration with the researchers from Orange CERT Coordination Center.
The firm...
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has confirmed that the commission is monitoring three governors over stashed money.According to Bawa, the serving governors are planning to launder stashed billions of Naira through table payment of salaries to workers.
The development is coming a few...
Says operators are not criminals, control only 3 per cent of forex market
…Confirms release of detained members, belongings
The Association of Bureau De Change of Nigeria (ABCON) President Alhaji Aminu Gwadaebe has advised the CBN to revisit the suspension of Bureau De Change companies (BDCs) from forex window to strengthen...
Controversial journalist, Kemi Olunloyo continues to roll out more questionable claims about the popular crooner, Davido in her #TheAdelekeCurse docuseries.
Recall that following the death of Ifeanyi Adeleke, Kemi Olunloyo launched the docuseries while alleging that a generational curse is responsible for the deaths being witnessed around Davido’s circle.
However, in another short...
President Paul Biya, currently the longest serving President in the world and his supporters, have marshalled out plans for an elaborate event to mark his 40th anniversary of his coming into power and leading one of the very important countries in Africa.
The event scheduled for Sunday, would see, Biya...
An Abuja Federal High Court on Friday has issued an order of interim forfeiture of 40 landed properties belonging to the former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
10 of Ekweremadu’s properties in Enugu, three in the United States of America (USA), two in the United Kingdom (UK), one in Lagos,...
Abubakar Malami (SAN), the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice have stated that if the Supreme Court rules in favour of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration will comply with the ruling.
According to reports within Nigeria, Nigeria’s chief...
Ifafunke Oketoyinbo Iyaosun, an Ifa priestess and Olokun goddess, has revealed some reasons responsible for the death of Ifeanyi, son of Nigerian musician, David Adeleke, aka Davido.
The Ifa priestess said the deceased might be a spiritual child who is against a loud celebration.
In an online viral video, she said...
An information technology firm, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), has opened its first office in Lagos, Nigeria.
Amrote Abdella, the firm’s regional manager of sub-Saharan Africa, made the disclosure on Tuesday.
According to NAN, Abdella said that the office was to reiterate Amazon commitment to Africa.
“We are excited to open our...
There is no plan to print the proposed new naira notes outside Nigeria, a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Board member has said.
“All the new currency notes are printed in Nigeria by the Nigeria Security, Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC), so I do not envisage printing outside the country,” the Board...
The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, OFM, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has disclosed why assassins are after him.
Suleman said some ministers uncomfortable with his condemnations of killings in Nigeria had offered him a bag of money.
Addressing his members, the clergyman said the ministers vowed to come after him for...
The naira’s unprecedented depreciation reached another alarming height under the President Muhammadu Buhari regime on Saturday.
The naira is currently trading at 800 against the dollar on the parallel exchange platform Aboki Forex.
Checks on Saturday revealed that the current parallel market rate is N800 to a dollar and N890 to...
