Three senators from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The three senators are all from Kebbi State. They are Adamu Aliero, representing Kebbi Central Senatorial District, Yahaya Abdullahi, representing Kebbi North Senatorial District, and Garba Maidoki, representing Kebbi South Senatorial District. The trio announced their defections in separate letters addressed to the Senate and read during Tuesday’s plenary by the Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, who presided over the session. Each of the lawmakers cited the prolonged leadership crisis within the PDP, characterised by unresolved litigations and deep internal divisions, as…
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The Nigeria Police Force INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja, has arrested a Canadian citizen, Robert Harms, for allegedly tricking a Nigerian company into investing $210,000 in a non-existent Waste-to-Energy project in Canada. Police spokesperson ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi confirmed on Tuesday that Harms’ arrest followed a petition filed by Tepison Enterprises, a company based in Akwa Ibom State. The company accused Harms of fraudulently inducing them to invest in the fake project. Investigations revealed that Harms fabricated a fraudulent Project Bridge Loan Agreement and orchestrated the transfer of funds to an account in Dubai through Allah Mai Girma Bureau de…
President Bola Tinubu, has been tasked to investigate the $300 million, allegedly paid by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) under the former Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari as compensation to the Ogoni people for Oil Mining Lease (OML) 11, which was allegedly diverted. An Ogoni Indigenous non- governmental Organisation, the Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI), claimed that the fund was diverted by the previous administration of the Rivers State Government under Nyesom Wike in collaboration with certain individuals who claimed to be representing Ogoni interests. President of the Organization, Dr. Douglas Fabeke, decried that the Ogoni people have been…
The Senate has debunked viral claims that the newly appointed Managing Director of the South-South Development Commission, Usoro Akpabio, is the first daughter of the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, made the clarification in an interview with newsmen President Bola Tinubu had nominated Mrs Akpabio as the Commission’s MD and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chibudom Nwuche from Rivers State, as its Chairman. The nominations were contained in a letter from the President, which was read during Thursday’s plenary session presided over by Senator…
Reproductive health experts have confirmed that it is biologically possible for an 18-year-old boy to impregnate 10 girls within five months. They, however, described the situation as unusual. This follows a recent case in Anambra State involving a teenage apprentice accused of impregnating multiple girls, including his master’s daughter and salesgirl. The case, which is under the scrutiny of the Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, has raised serious concerns about adolescent sexual behaviour and potential exploitation. The case further raised the question of how the teenager could successfully convince the girls to have sex with him. The…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has again slashed the gantry price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, to N825 per litre from N835 per litre as competition continues in the domestic market. The Refinery, only last month, effected a price reduction twice within the space of a week, crashing its gantry price by N45 from N880 to N835 per litre. This reduction in price is as a result of the restart and full implementation of the Naira-for-Crude agreement with local refiners after an earlier suspension by the immediate past NNPCL under the former Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO),…
By Shadrach Okon In a bid to curb infant mortality in Akwa Ibom State, and Nigeria at large, Sarmaan Project (SP), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed to drug administration, has administered azithromycin drugs to over 36,000 children to enhance their life expectancy, beginning in the Ikono as the pilot local government area in the state. The initiative came against the background of high incidences of death amongst children and infants in Akwa Ibom State. The project coordinator, Dr Teyil Wamiyel-Mshella, disclosed this in Uyo, the state capital in an interview with journalists during the close out ceremony of the “Safety…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has rescued a two-year-old child trafficking victim in Aba, Abia State. According to a statement on the agency’s official Facebook page on Friday, the child was trafficked from Abuja to Aba where the suspect who allegedly sold her for N100,000 was arrested by officials of the Department of State Services. The statement read, “A 2-year-old girl, renamed Chiamaka Favor (alias), who was trafficked from Abuja to Aba in February 2025, has been rescued by NAPTIP Abia Command on May 8, 2025. “The suspected trafficker, arrested by DSS Abia and handed…
Cultists have reportedly hacked two graduates of the Niger Delta University (NDU), Amassomma, Bayelsa State, to death at Gbarabtoru-Ekpetiama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. The victims identified as one Ayaokpo Sinclair from Tombia Community and his yet-to-be identified friend, were said to have been waiting for their National Youth Service Corps call up when the cultists stroke on Thursday, around 11pm and macheted them to death. Commander of Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) in Bayelsa State, Mr Tolummbofa Akpoebibo Jonathan, told Daily Trust on Friday that the two young graduates had strolled out to buy something…
Former Governor of Kano State and leader of the Kwankwasiyya movement, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has criticised elected politicians who defect to rival parties after securing votes from the masses, describing the move as a betrayal and a political sin. Speaking in Kano while welcoming a fresh batch of defectors from Takai Local Government Area of Kano South to the NNPP at his Miller Road residence, Kwankwaso reacted to the recent wave of defections from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC). “We all know the history of this movement. Unfortunately, in 2015, some individuals joined us with dishonest…