Author: Adaozu

A  Nigerian living in Scotland, David Solomon has become the first black man to have hiked all 282 Munros in Scotland. Munros are mountains above 3000ft in Scotland. Solomon who was born and grew up in Nigeria, relocated to the United Kingdom to study 15 years ago and settled there afterwards achieved this record on …

A group, Sustainance of Igbo Culture and Tradition (IDTL), has called for inves­tigation and prosecution of masterminds of the quit no­tice order to Ndigbo over the recent hunger protests. A press statement issued by leader of the group, Raphael Eze, stated that it amounted to witch-hunting, for anyone to issue such order even when Igbo …

Police have restricted access to the secretariat of the Action People’s Party (APP) in Rivers State, at Tombia Extension, GRA, Port Harcourt, after suspected thugs at­tacked it with explosives. The yet to be identified assailants, det­onated an improvised explosive device (IED) at the secretariat on Sunday night, destroying several valuables worth mil­lions of naira. The …

At least six travellers, including a lecturer at the Federal University, Wukari and the Deputy Registrar of Taraba State School of Health Technology, Takum, have been killed. One of the victims, a second­ary school principal, was recent­ly transferred from a secondary school in Takum to Wukari Local Government Area. Spokesperson of the Taraba State Police …

The Nigeria Immigration Ser­vice (NIS) has indicated plans to prosecute a woman who tore her husband’s international passport at the Murtala Muhammed Inter­national Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. According to the agency, the woman will be prosecuted under Section 10(b) of Immigration Act 2015, and has already been invited for questioning. The statement reads, “The Ni­geria …

        The Kano State Police Command has transferred 76 suspects, including a foreign national who were flying Russian flags during recent protests to Force Headquarters in Abuja for a discreet investigation on charges of sedition. State Police Commissioner Salman Garba provided an update on Monday, revealing that the suspects were apprehended amid ongoing nationwide hunger …

The State Government has lifted the curfew it imposed on the city as normalcy gradually returns to Kano following the conclusion of the EndBadGovernance protests, Violence rocked Kano during the protests, with property worth billions of naira destroyed and looted by irate mobs. The government slammed a 24 hours curfew on the city as a …

The lingering fuel shortages across the country appear to have defied all solutions as filling stations across the country continue to battle acute shortages. The horror has shot up petrol prices to an all-time high of N990/litre in Abuja and as high as N1,200/litre in far-flung cities up north. The frustrating development has forced motorists …

Following the release of the 2024 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, SSCE, results, the West African Examination Council, WAEC, has revealed that the results of 215,267 candidates are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice. A total of 1,805,216 candidates sat for the examination from 25,126 secondary schools across Nigeria. Out of …

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has ordered supermarkets to put prices on their displayed products. This is in a bid to ensure that customers are not exploited. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the FCCPC Chief Executive Officer, Tunji Bello on Monday. According to the statement, it became important to prevent …