The Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria’s Federal capital of Abuja has confirmed reports of earth tremor reported by residents. In tweets on Friday, residents reported experiencing the ‘shaking’ effects of tremor in their homes at dawn. The agency said it…
APC govs in danger as party threatens to cancel indirect primaries (Vanguard)
All Progressives Congress, APC, governors bidding to use the indirect or consensus options in producing party candidates were, yesterday, coming under fresh threats with the injunction that a protest from any stakeholder or aspirant will lead to the cancellation of…
Crisis rocks Lagos community over market construction (Vanguard)
Landlord of Rimax Estate, Meiran, Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government, Lagos and an industrialist, Chief Livinus Okwara, are at loggerheads over the construction of market within the estate. The animosity, Vanguard gathered, has degenerated that both parties have vowed to use whatever…
British Airways hacked with details of 380,000 bank cards stolen (Guardian)
British Airways said that the personal and financial details of customers making bookings between August 21 and September 5 had been stolen in a data breach involving 380,000 bank cards. The almost two week long hack did not involve travel…
I prefer to be loser than win through violence – Ortom (Guardian)
Samuel Ortom, Governor of Benue, has declared that he would prefer to lose the next February governorship election than win it through violence. The governor urged politicians in the state to eschew violence in the run-up to the 2019 general elections.…
‘Old things have passed away…’ come back home, FG begs Nigerians abroad
The federal government has appealed to Nigerians in the diaspora to return home and help build the Nigeria of everybody’s dream, assuring them that things are changing in the country. Ogbonnaya Onu, the minister of Science and technology, made the…
Stampede As Atiku Submits Forms (Thisday) *INEC Registers 14.5m New Voters, Says Preparation for Osun Poll on Course (Thisday)
Stampede As Atiku Submits Forms (Thisday) Policemen attached to the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were yesterday forced to fire multiple gun shots to scare away thugs, who had invaded the party secretariat, and clashed with supporters…
Police officers sacked for searching Edwin Clark’s Abuja home (PremiumTimes)
Three Nigerian police officers have been sacked and another one suspended over the “unauthorised” raid of Edwin Clark’s house in Abuja on Tuesday, the Force Headquarters said Thursday. Clark’s home in Asokoro neighbourhood was reportedly stormed by officers in the…
IG dismisses three cops for raiding Clark’s residence (Punch) *1.38m PVCs Uncollected In Lagos – INEC (Conscise)
IG dismisses three cops for raiding Clark’s residence (Punch) The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has dismissed the three policemen who raided elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark’s Asokoro, Abuja residence on Tuesday. The policemen had searched the Ijaw leader’s residence…
Osinbajo inaugurates disbursement of capital to 2million traders
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday began the disbursement of start-up capital for 39,000 petty traders in the Federal Capital Territory. The disbursement is part of the current administration’s drive to empower over two million petty traders across the country…