On July 13, 2025, a serious runway incident involving an Air Peace flight in Port Harcourt sent ripples through Nigeria’s aviation sector, raising concerns about safety protocols and crew conduct. The event, which prompted an investigation by the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), has sparked a public dispute, with...
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A total of 160,200 bottles of codeine-based syrup were discovered in a 40ft container during a joint examination of the shipment by NDLEA officers and men of Nigeria Customs and other security agencies at the West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers state on Thursday...
Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed July 18 for ruling on a motion seeking to restrain the National Assembly from approving budgets or appointments of the Rivers State Government under the current Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd.). The motion was filed by some indigenes of Rivers...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- Former People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Deputy National Chairman, Chief Bode George, has dismissed claims that the party’s structure in Lagos has collapsed, describing the party as an “Iroko tree” with deep roots that cannot be easily shaken. George made this assertion while addressing journalists after...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – No fewer than six million pills of opioids namely: tamol 225mg, tapentadol 225mg and carisoprodol 225mg as well as 332,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup with a combined street value of Six Billion Five Hundred and Twenty-Four Million Naira (N6,524,000,000.00) have been intercepted by...
Nigeria’s premier gas distribution company, Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG), last week engaged more than 100 gas off takers in the Agbara Ota industrial zone in Ogun State on ways of consolidating the gains from the supply of gas to the businesses. Set up in 1998 as a fully Shell-owned...
Mr Lere Olayinka, spokesman to the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike says those waiting for the minister’s political downfall will wait endlessly. Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Public Communications and Social Media, made the remarks while reacting to comments by former governor of Ebonyi Sam Egwu....
Three days into the ongoing National Sports Festival (NSF) in Abeokuta, Bayelsa is leading the medals table with 12 gold, six silver and three bronze medals. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the official medals’ table released by the technical team of the NSF tagged ‘Gateway Games...
The Senate has set up an 18-member committee to oversee the implementation of emergency rule in Rivers, following the suspension of democratic government in the state. President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, made the announcement at the resumption of sitting on Tuesday after the Easter recess. Akpabio stressed the...
There are indications that President Bola Tinubu met with suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, in London during a working visit. Although the Presidency remained tight-lipped about the meeting, a source close to the matter confirmed that it was a face-to-face encounter. This meeting would be the first since...
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Daboikiabo Warmate, has said that the Chukwuemeka Aaron-led executives remained leaders of the party in Rivers. Warmate, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said according to the provisions of the party’s constitution, there is no any PDP...
The National Assembly has fired back at Pastor Tunde Bakare over his criticism of the legislature, describing it as biased. Bakare, the serving overseer of The Citadel Global Community Church, had on Sunday condemned the senate’s suspension of Senator Natasha-Akpoti Uduaghan; the National Assembly’s ratification of the emergency rule...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has backed President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers, saying he wanted the removal of Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the oil-rich state. In a move that has continued to divide opinions, Tinubu suspended Fubara, his...
The NEW Associates, a grassroots support group for President Bola Tinubu in Bayelsa on Friday dismissed reports that one of its Ward Coordinators clashed with the Chief Whip of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Gabriel Ogbara. The lead convener, Mr George Turnah, and the Co-convener and secretary,...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday inaugurated a 21-member ad-hoc committee to oversee the caretaker government in Rivers during the state of emergency. Speaker of the House, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, said that the inauguration of the committee was in line with Section 11(4) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended)....