Anti-Tinubu passenger aboard an Abuja-Lagos flight, Mr Obiajulu Uja, has been arraigned before the Zuba Magistrates’ Court, Abuja and remanded in prison custody. His lawyer, Ejike Ugwu, disclosed this to The PUNCH on Monday. Uja was on Friday evening carried off a Lagos-Abuja flight, after he started a lone protest, demanding that the President-elect, Bola…
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has approved 173 digital lending applications to operate in the country. Of the 173, 119 have full approvals and 54 have conditional approvals. After loan apps started harassing Nigerians, the FCCPC began a registration drive to protect citizens from the atrocities of these apps. It released a ‘Limited…
Unknown gunmen dressed in police uniform on Saturday evening shot and killed a man identified as Chukwuka Monye at Rumuokoro Junction in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The deceased, a volunteer traffic warden, was said to be controlling traffic in Rumuokoro, an outskirt of Port Harcourt when the incident happened at about…
THE Lagos High Court, sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, yesterday, dismissed a ‘no case submission’ filed by the suspended Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, Drambi Vandi, who allegedly killed a pregnant Lagos-based lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem, on December 25, 2022. Justice Ibironke Harrison ordered the defendant to open his defence as a ‘prima facie’ has…
The immediate past Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force (DOPRI), Air Commodore Wapkerem Maigida, has been confirmed dead in Abuja. Air Commodore Maigida who was recently posted to the Directorate Civil/Military Affairs, was said to have slumped and passed on Sunday evening. Maigida the 18th DOPRI took over from the former DOPRI,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has nabbed 17 suspected internet fraudsters in Makurdi, capital of Benue State. The arrest of the suspects was disclosed in a statement shared via the agency’s Twitter handle on Monday. Items recovered from the suspects upon arrest included; Mobile phones, ATM cards, Laptops, Lexus RX330 and Toyota Camry cars….
Chelsea interim coach Bruno Saltor said the players would be “sad” after the Premier League club sacked manager Graham Potter as he prepared the team to face Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool. Potter was dismissed on Sunday, after a 2-0 home defeat against Aston Villa the previous day. Big-spending Chelsea, who hired the Englishman to replace Thomas…
The secretariat of the Labour Party (LP) in Imo State has been sealed. A statement issued on Monday, April 3, by the national secretary of the LP Umar Farouk, stated that the secretariat was sealed by the police in connivance with the state government. The statement read “the national leadership of the Labour Party is…
The winner of the maiden edition of the popular reality show, Big Brother Titans, Makhosazane Twala, simply known as Khosi, has said that she has yet to come to terms with the reality of winning the show. She was declared the winner of the show on Sunday, April 2, 2023. With her win, she became…
A popular traditionalist based in Imesi-Ile, Osun State, Oba Adetoyese Olakisan also known as Oba Ogboni Agbaye, alongside two other people, on Monday, died in a road accident that occurred along the Ila/Edemonsi/Imesi-Ile Road. It was learnt that Olakisan, the officer-in- charge of Imesi Ile police post, and one other passenger said to be a…
