Trinity Spirit: 3 rescued, 1 body found, 6 oil workers missing – SEPCOL
The Management of Shebah Exploration and Production Company Ltd. (SEPCOL) has confirmed that three crew members of its offshore Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility which exploded on Wednesday have been found alive. The company said one dead body was also recovered in the vicinity of the Trinity Spirit FPSO at the Ukpokiti field (OML 108) in Delta State. It, however, kept mute on the...
Popular Bollywood singer, Lata Mangeshkar, is dead
Popular Bollywood singer, Lata Mangeshkar, widely known as nightingale of India, has passed away. The famous singer was pronounced dead on Sunday at the age of 92. Mangeshka died in a Mumbai hospital after being admitted to its intensive care unit on January 11, 2022, with COVID-19 symptoms. Reacting to the death of the popular singer, Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, wrote...
Atiku Abubakar and sexual history of Nigerian presidency
By FESTUS ADEDAYO In early 2014, the Zimbabwean public sphere literally caught fire. Rumours that the country’s former Prime Minister and the presidential candidate of the Movement for Democratic Change, (MDC) Morgan Tsvangirai, had suffered “a nasty blow from below,” euphemism for zero virility, spread like bushfire. At about the same time, the virility-restoring prowess of Emmanuel Makandiwa, a ‘miracle-working’...
Lai Mohammed slams N100bn suit against medium, publisher
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has dragged an online publication, Pointblank News, before an Abuja High court over alleged libel. Mohammed said because of the false and offensive publications, he had suffered mental distress and serious injury to his feelings. In a copy of the Writ of Summon obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, the minister...
Guinea-Bissau Minister: How coupists attempted to kill President
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea-Bissau, Suzi Barbosa, on Sunday gave graphic presentation of the attempt to overthrow the constitutional order in her country. On the sidelines of the African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government holding in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, President Muhammadu Buhari met with Senior Minister. At the meeting, President Buhari got a comprehensive briefing on the...
NDLEA seizes 22,160kg Codeine, Meth, Loud in Lagos
In two major operations in Lagos State carried out by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), over 22,160 kilograms of Codeine syrup, Methamphetamine and Skunk have been seized at Apapa seaport and a notorious drug den, Akala, Mushin, Lagos. While a total of 14,080kg codeine syrup (8,080 litres) and 4,352.43kg cold caps used to conceal the former...
Ex-DPO, traffickers arrested for drugs
A 64-year-old former Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Idanre Police station, Ondo State, Mr. Monday George Chika, has been arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The ex-DPO, who was dismissed from service for drug offences, was arrested with an accomplice, Emmanuel Eniola, 40, with 280 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing 168kg. They were arrested on...
Nim-SIM linkage: Security agencies accessing Nigerians’ personal details, SERAP tells Buhari
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to use his “good offices and leadership position to urgently review and rescind your reported approval for security agencies to access people’s personal details via NIN-SIM linkage without due process of law.” SERAP made the call in a statement signed by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, on Sunday. SERAP...
Emir of Jama’are, Muhammadu Wabi, is dead
The Emir of Jama’are in Bauchi State, Alhaji Ahmad Muhammadu Wabi III, has been pronounced dead. The Emir passed on in the early hours of Sunday after 50 years of reign. He was said to have died after a prolonged illness that kept him away from the public. The demise of Muhammadu Wabi was disclosed by the Gadodamasun Jama’are, Alhaji Salleh Malla. The...
Mr Macaroni ‘freaky’ his mum N500,000
Popular Nigerian comedian, Debo Adedayo, well known as Mr Macaroni, has jokingly gave his mother N500,000. Mr Macaroni, who took to his Facebook page to share a video of himself and his mother, used his usual line 'put your account number here' for his mom. In a video captioned ‘my mom and I’, the popular comedian said: “Are you there? Put your...
