Desperate attempts by the tramadol drug cartel to smuggle into Nigeria over Two Million Four Hundred and Sixty-Five Thousand (2, 465, 000) tablets of the pharmaceutical opioid in 225mg and 250mg, weighing Two Thousand, Three Hundred and Fifty Six kilograms (2,356kgs) with an estimated street value of One Billion, Forty Million Naira (N1, 040, 000, 000)…
A Nigerian script writer, Stanley Kalu has been selected by the American entertainment giant, 20th Century Studios to write and direct a Hollywood movie from Matthew Tobin Anderson’s seminal novel, Feed. The movie which mirrors a dystopian love story will be produced by Zachary Green to mark Kalu’s feature-directional debut. According to The Hollywood on Friday,…
The United Kingdom, United States and Ukraine voted against a resolution to take action against racism at the fifty-first session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Countries that voted against the resolution include Czech Rep., France, Germany, Montenegro, the Netherlands and Poland. There were seven abstentions. On Friday, the resolution titled ‘From rhetoric to reality:…
An insider in the Kirikiri Medium Security Prison, Lagos State, has narrated to FIJ how 101 suspected Boko Haram terrorists were released from the facility on Saturday morning. Speaking to FIJ on Sunday, the source said wardens at the facility let them out of the medium and maximum security facilities as part of a swap deal with…
Swedish flight instructor, 23, is killed in Virginia plane crash after student, 18, she was teaching pointed nose too high, causing aircraft to stall and plummet into the ground Viktoria Theresie Izabelle Ljungman, 23, attended Virginia’s Hampton University on a tennis scholarship, eventually becoming a flight instructor On Thursday, around 3 p.m., she and Oluwagbohunmi Ayomide…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied singing the praise of former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu. Obasanjo declared that from his experience, only military-trained personnel were good managers of people. The rebuttal by the ex-Head of State was issued on Sunday by spokesperson, Kehinde Akinyemi. Obasanjo stated that he could not have made any remark at the…
Court freezes 3 firms’ accounts over non-disclosure of lifted crude oil Justice Daniel Osiagor, of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has directed 18 commercial banks to freeze and place a Post No Debt (PND) on any sum of money, standing to the credit of accounts belonging to three oil and gas companies, Petralon 54 Limited; Petralon Energy…
Facts have emerged about events leading up to the approval and disbursements of various sums of money to members of the National Working Committee as well as Secretariat Staff of the Peoples Democratic Party, as Housing allowance. A document sighted by Vanguard yesterday revealed that a total of N1.3bn was approved by the party leadership…
THE CHIP GIRL: Woman’s Microchip Implant in Her Hand Goes Viral A woman from Las Vegas, Nevada has garnered more than 3 million followers on social media for showing what she can do with a microchip implanted in the back of her hand. Burgundy Waller has called her husband a “tech genius.” She had a chip…
Some Senators have said the National Assembly would not allow the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to end the proposed subsidy removal by the end of his tenure in June 2023.The lawmakers said discontinuing the policy in June would create a serious crisis for the new administrat-ion that would take over from Buhari. The…