The Independent National Electoral Commission, on Thursday, said gunmen attacked its officials in Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State. INEC Chairman, Information, Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who confirmed the development in a statement, said one of the commission’s staff was injured and is currently hospitalised. Okoye said the officials were attacked while…
An old Ferrari described as a ‘rustbucket’ complete with missing seats and holes in the floor has sold for a massive £110,000. The 1962 250 GTE model, which was originally bought by its owner in 1973 for £800 (£4,500 today) had been in storage in a leaking barn in west Wales for 40 years when…
Hundreds of members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State have dumped the party for the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ahead of next year’s general election. The defectors were led by Hon. Bola Daramola from Opin ward of the local government council of the state. Receiving…
The Police in Delta State have uncovered a baby factory located somewhere in Obodogba community, Okpanam. According to a Statement released by DSP Bright Edafe, spokesperson of the state police command, men of the state investigation department while acting on a tipoff, stormed the baby factory in Okpanam community, Oshimili North LGA, where three pregnant…
An unidentified truck driver who bashed a SUV from behind breaking its rear screen and destroying the booth in the process is seen Rolling on the ground at the outcome of his driving. Funny thing is if someone had advised him to take it easy or be careful a few minutes before the accident, he…
The Peoples Democratic Party has instituted a lawsuit compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission to prevent All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu; and Labour Party standard bearer, Peter Obi, from replacing their running mates with Senator Kashim Shettima and Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed respectively. The PDP is also asking the court to declare that Tinubu…
A professor in the Nigerian university system will earn N2 million monthly salary, if the Federal Government accepts the recommendations of its committee on the 2009 agreements with university-based unions. The committee also recommended varied yearly allowances for professors. The allowances are for postgraduate supervision, field trip, responsibility and hazard, examination/timekeeper and teaching practice/industrial supervision….
Police have confirmed an arm robbery attack along Bank Road in Umuahia, Abia State capital where two civilians and a policeman were injured. The spokesman of the state command, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna in a chat with ABN TV on Thursday also called on the general public to be security conscious, especially bank customers. ABN TV…
Net foreign exchange (forex) inflow into the economy fell by 56 per cent to $3.2 million in February 2022 from $7.2 billion in February 2020. Vanguard analysis of data from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, monthly Economic Report for the period under review showed that year-on-year (YoY), net forex inflow stood at $7.19 billion in February…
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned Thursday from his sudden exile in Singapore, a day after fleeing the country he led for nearly three years. Forced out by a civilian uprising over the island nation’s economic collapse, the 73-year-old Rajapaksa had left Sri Lanka before dawn Wednesday to escape public fury over…