Новости за 05.07.2024

A fresh oil spill has hit the Bodo community in the Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, destroying farmlands. It was learnt that the oil spillage occurred on Thursday from a pipeline belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company. This came barely two months after a similar incident occurred along the pipeline at different locations

Pandemonium struck in Ughelli, Delta State, on Friday when suspected armed robbers attacked a bank customer at the premises of a new-generation bank in the metropolis. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen numbering about five in a Toyota Venza, had trailed the unidentified customer to the bank premises, before shooting sporadically while attacking their target.

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that he is neither deterred nor worried by Thursday’s Appeal Court judgement which returned Martin Amaewhule and 24 other lawmakers to the State House of Assembly. The Appeal Court had nullified the order of a Rivers State High Court which restrained Amaewhule and the other lawmakers loyal to

Newly-elected UK Prime Minister, KeIr Starmer, has made his first set of appointments into the cabinet, BBC reports Friday. This follows his centre-left Labour Party’s landslide general election victory that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer arrived as the party’s first PM since Gordon Brown in 2010, and had been asked by King Charles

The Lagos State Taskforce has vowed to clamp down on commercial bus drivers disposed to parking illegally along the roads of the Lagos metropolis. The Chairman of the Agency, CSP Adetayo Akerele, declared the resolve to sanitise the roads of Lagos, warning perpetrators of illegal parking to desist. Akerele issued the warning on Friday during

Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has congratulated the United Kingdom Labour Party and its leader, Keir Starmer, for recording a historic victory in Thursday’s election in that country. The opposition party won a huge parliamentary majority in the country’s general election, unseating the incumbent Conservatives after 14 years. Obi, who reacted to the

Keir Starmer on Friday promised to “rebuild Britain” as he took office as the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister following his centre-left Labour Party’s landslide general election victory that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Head of state King Charles III asked Starmer to form a government during a meeting at Buckingham Palace, officially appointing

Indigenes of Ifite Nteje community in the Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State have appealed to the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, to implement the report of the White Paper of the panel of inquiry set up by the state government to investigate land grabbing activities that had allegedly caused loss of lives and

A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa the state capital has sentenced two persons to five years imprisonment for conspiracy, armed robbery, and unlawful possession of firearms. Believe Leisure (36) and Jacob Doukumo (42), in the Suit Number BYHC/BHC/CR/1/2023, were arrested by the police on December 24, 2022, along Sangana Creek in Brass Local

Joseph Aloba, father of late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State to intervene in the investigation into his son’s death. Aloba, who said he is convinced that Mohbad’s death was not natural, also urged Nigerian youths to demand justice and prevent similar tragedies.

Rishi Sunak on Friday apologised to the public after his Conservatives were trounced by Labour in the United Kingdom general election, and said he would step down as party leader. The 44-year-old former financier gambled on going to the country six months before he had to, hoping that better economic data would swing public support

The Senate has extended the deadline given to the committee probing the N30tn Ways and Means secured by the Federal Government from the Central Bank of Nigeria under Godwin Emefiele. The extension was granted following a request by the chairman of the panel, Senator Isah Jibrin, (APC, Kogi East), on Thursday. At the inauguration of

The Senate has extended the deadline given to the committee probing the N30tn Ways and Means secured by the Federal Government from the Central Bank of Nigeria under Godwin Emefiele. The extension was granted following a request by the chairman of the panel, Senator Isah Jibrin, (APC, Kogi East), on Thursday. At the inauguration of

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said its portal would be open for online accreditation of journalists and media organisations interested in covering the Edo State governorship election. The Edo governorship election is scheduled for September 21, 2024. In April 2024, INEC published the final list of 17 candidates for the Edo Governorship Election. The

Personnel of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Army Guards Brigade have arrested no fewer than six bandits during clearance operations in the Federal Capital Territory. During the operations, the security operatives also destroyed identified camps of bandits in Kaduna and Niger States. According to a statement on Friday by the FCT police command

The Controller of Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun II Area Command, Comptroller Olusola Alade, on Friday, said that the Command generated a total sum of N12, 830,493,630.06 as revenue between January and June 2024. Alade said that this is compared to the sum of N8,505,038,818.30 generated during the same period last year. He disclosed that the

The Kogi State House of Assembly has extended the tenure of Transition Committee Chairmen by another Six months. This was the resolution of the hallow chamber during the House plenary on Friday. The extension of the tenure of the Transition Committee Chairmen is a sequel to a letter sent to the House by Governor Ahmed

Armed robbers on Friday unleashed mayhem on a man coming out of a new generation bank and dispossessed him of yet to be the yet-to-be-ascertained sum of money before they shot him dead. Eyewitness accounts stated that the armed robbers trailed the man from the bank up to Phase II, Lokongoma right in front of

The General overseer, Champions for Christ Chapel Asaba, Delta State, Pastor Samuel Akpan–Isong, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly, governors and spirited individuals to tackle food insecurity and other socioeconomic challenges in their bids to cushion the effects of hunger currently being experienced by Nigerians. Akpan -Isong, also tasked the ruling class

Taraba State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas, on Friday, pledged to complete all key infrastructural projects inherited by his administration. Kefas made the pledge during the inspection of the ongoing Mararraba – Baissa – Abong Road project awarded by the immediate governor of the state, Darius Ishaku. The governor, who acknowledged the delay in releasing more

Six students from three secondary schools in Nigeria have received top in the World Outstanding Cambridge Learners Awards for the June and November 2023 Cambridge examination series. The Country Director of Nigeria British Council, Mrs Lucy Pearson, made this known at the British Council Recognition and Outstanding Cambridge Learners Awards in Lagos on Thursday night.

An international rights organisation, Global Rights has joined its counterparts to call on the management of the University of Ibadan to have a rethink over the purported plan to expel protesting students. PUNCH reports that the management of UI, in June, invited three students namely Aduwo Ayodele; Olamide Gbadegesin; and Nice Linus, for questioning over

Britain’s head of state King Charles III officially appointed Labour leader Keir Starmer as Prime Minister on Friday during an audience at Buckingham Palace. A photograph released by the palace showed the monarch shaking hands with Starmer, whose party won a landslide election victory. The king earlier accepted the resignation of Conservative leader Rishi Sunak.

The House of Representatives has launched a probe into the N1.5 billion meant for the payment of contractors, but allegedly diverted by principal officers of the Federal ministry of women affairs. The House Committee on Women Affairs commenced the probe in Abuja against the backdrop of petitions by contractors over non-payment of contracts executed. Rep.

The Victor Oko-Jumbo, led Rivers State House of Assembly, loyal to governor Siminalayi Fubara, has said it has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement of the Appeal Court delivered on Wednesday in Abuja. Oko-Jumbo, said this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Friday by the factional Clerk of