Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have picked up Malam Tukur Mamu at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano. Daily Trust had reported how Mamu was arrested in Cario, capital of Egypt, and flown back to Nigeria. The former negotiator between the terrorists who abducted train passengers in Abuja and victims’ families, had…
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo has nullified and reversed the expulsion of Omooba Dotun Babayemi from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State .Besides, the court warned the party and its agents against taking actions contrary to this order till the substantive suit is determined. Few days ago, some members of the…
Loyalists of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), are making subtle moves to kick out the national chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, before the campaign for the 2023 general election commences, Daily Independent has gathered. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the ban on political campaigns…
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said the estimated three million Internally Displaced Persons would participate in the 2023 general elections. The commission added that it will display voter register across the country once it completes the ongoing Automated Biometric Identification System to weed out all double/multiple as well as ineligible registrants. The commission’s Chairman,…
A good number of security operatives have stormed the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in preparation for the visit of the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima.Officers spotted were stern-looking and were moving around the premises with their guns. Tinubu and Shettima are expected to attend…
The families of four newborn babies have been thrown into mourning after they died due to alleged negligence on the part of the doctor on duty at the Sapele Central Hospital, in the Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State. The victims’ families, while lamenting over their deaths, alleged that the doctor on duty was drunk,…
1. The Lekki Corridor which has lately been described as a shoreline of waste dump in a documentary released by a Presidential Campaign Team is not a true reflection of the entire stretch of the landscape. 2. I will not indulge myself on the ownership of the Oriental Hotel located along the lekki Road axis but…
US technology firms that receive government funding will be banned from building “advanced technology facilities” in China for a decade, the Biden administration has announced, as it outlined plans to increase domestic production of semiconductors. The requirements come under the US government’s near-$53bn (£46bn) plan to scale up manufacturing of semiconductor chips – the “brain”…
Dear Esteemed Customers, we wish to notify you of the relocation of Egbin/Aja 330kV Line 3 to Spare Omotosho 330kV Line 2 Bay from 7am, 7th September to 7pm, 9th September, 2022. During this period Ajah & Lekki Transmission Stations will be out of supply. Customers within Ibeju, Ajah, Lekki and Islands Districts will be…
As with many of his coworkers, a senior lecturer at the University of Calabar who is impacted by the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike has taken up taxi driving. Negotiations between the Federal Government and the ASUU have often come to a standstill since the strike began in February 2022. The senior educator…