NNPCL SACKS SENIOR STAFF, OVER 200 OTHERS IN MAJOR RESTRUCTURING The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd has terminated the services of several senior staff members as part of a significant restructuring exercise, News360 Nigeria reports. Sources close to the matter told ait live that the affected staff include Bala Wunti, former chief of National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), …

AGBAKOBA DEMANDS RETRACTION OF NATASHA’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS Renowned senior lawyer and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has written a second letter to the suspended Senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, demanding a retraction of what he described as her “clearly false and unsubstantiated” sexual harassment allegations against Senate …

TINUBU USING NIGERIA’S RESOURCES TO CRIPPLE OPPOSITION – SULE LAMIDO Former Jigawa State governor and founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sule Lamido, has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of weaponising state power to stifle opposition voices, warning that such actions threaten Nigeria’s democracy. Lamido, who spoke in an interview with BBC on Tuesday said harassment and intimidation …

NIGERIA’S POLITICAL PARTIES RUN AS CASH & CARRY BUSINESS, LACK IDEOLOGY – TAJUDEEN ABBAS The speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, on Monday said Nigerians must find ways to make political parties fulfill their objectives and not turn it into business ventures by their managers. Mr Abbas said this in Abuja, in his keynote address at a technical …

SAUDI SLEEPING PRINCE WHO HAS BEEN IN COMA SINCE 2005 CLOCKS 36 Prince Al-Waleed, a member of the Saudi royal family, has been in a coma since a car accident in 2005 while he was studying. Even though doctors said there was little hope, his father chose to keep him on life support, believing that he might wake up one …

I ESTABLISHED RADIO BIAFRA TO PROMOTE TRUTH, PEACE – NNAMDI KANU Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), stated that he established Radio Biafra to “promote truth, peace, and the fight for fundamental human rights.” He made this statement during an interrogation by the Department of State Services (DSS), a video of which was played in …

IT’S FAKE NEWS, TINUBU DID NOT SACK ANY MINISTER – PRESIDENCY The Presidency has condemned as false and dangerous a viral report claiming that President Bola Tinubu has sacked the Ministers of Defence and Power, calling for immediate action against the spreaders of such misinformation. The story, first published by Phoenix Browser with the headline ‘BREAKING: Tinubu Sacks Ministers of …

CBEX MAJOR PROMOTER, ADEFOWORA FINALLY SUBMIT HIMSELF TO EFCC One of the suspected promoters of the cryptocurrency trading platform, Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX), Adefowora Abiodun, has voluntarily surrendered himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for investigation. Abiodun, accompanied by his lawyers, turned himself in at the EFCC headquarters at 4:00 p.m. on Monday and expressed his willingness …

BUSINESSWOMAN, AISHA ACHIMUGU, ON HUNGER STRIKE IN EFCC CUSTODY Prominent business executive and socialite Aisha Achimugu has declared a “hunger strike” in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) custody following her arrest by operatives of the commission. A statement by the legal team of Achimugu, led by Mr Chikaosolu Ojukwu, SAN, on Tuesday in Abuja, said that their client …

NIGERIAN GOVT’S WITNESSES TO TESTIFY AGAINST NNAMDI KANU BEHIND SCREEN, CASE ADJOURNED MAY 2 Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted permission to the federal government for its witnesses to testify behind camera in the terrorism charges brought against the Biafra nation agitator, Nnamdi Kanu. The Judge granted the permission on Tuesday while delivering ruling …

EFCC ARRESTS AISHA ACHIMUGU UPON ARRIVAL AT ABUJA AIRPORT A prominent business executive and socialite, Aisha Sulaiman Achimugu, has been “arrested” by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), according to her legal team. Chikaosolu Ojukwu, SAN, made this known in a statement to Nairametrics on Tuesday, stressing that “Aisha Achimugu, who arrived voluntarily into the country from …

WIKE LISTS CONDITIONS FOR PEACE IN RIVERS The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said no amount of blackmail will bring peace to Rivers State. For peace to reign in the state, Wike said all critical stakeholders, including members of the National Assembly, must be involved with sincerity of purpose. He stated that the declaration of emergency …

I FOUNDED IPOB FOR THE GOOD OF NDIGBO – NNAMDI KANU TELLS COURT Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Tuesday admitted in court to founding both IPOB and Radio Biafra, the online platform through which he addressed followers across the world, ABN TV reports. Speaking during proceedings at the Federal High Court in Abuja, …

FRENCH MILITARY BASE IN NIGERIA? President Bola Tinubu has given the green light for France to establish a French military base in Nigeria as part of efforts to enhance military cooperation between the two nations, according to Huhuonline.com Three Aso Rock sources, who elected anonymity, because of the highly classified and sensitive nature of the issue, confided to Huhuonline.com that …

EIGHT KILLED, OTHERS INJURED AS BOMB BLAST ROCKS BORNO VILLAGE Barely 24 hours after Boko Haram terrorists killed two members of the Civilian Joint Task Force and 10 firewood scavengers in Gwoza local government area of Borno state, no fewer than eight persons were killed, and three others sustained various degrees of injury from an improvised explosive device (IED) planted …