Author: Naija Daily News

Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, has rated the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu between 65 and 70 per cent on security performance, insisting that terrorism across the country has been significantly reduced despite persistent kidnapping incidents. Speaking on ARISE News on Friday to mark the administration’s third anniversary, Musa said no country was entirely free from crime and criminality. “I’ll give ourselves 65 to 70 per cent,” he said. “The level of terrorism across the country has actually drastically reduced. Now we have acts of terrorism, and terrorism, like I said, is a social vice, a failure…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said his administration’s economic reforms have laid the foundation for Nigeria’s recovery, insisting that the difficult measures introduced since 2023 prevented the country from sliding into fiscal collapse and deeper economic uncertainty. Tinubu made the remarks on Friday in a statement marking the third anniversary of his administration, which was shared on X by his spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga. Reflecting on his three years in office, the President said he assumed leadership at a challenging period marked by mounting fiscal pressures, fuel subsidy costs, exchange-rate distortions, rising debt-servicing obligations, insecurity, energy shortages, and declining public confidence…

The African Development Bank has appointed Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, to spearhead its $7 billion Integrated Aviation Transformation Programme for Africa, positioning Nigeria at the centre of a major continental aviation reform initiative. The announcement was made in a statement issued on Wednesday by the minister’s Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Tunde Moshood. According to the statement, the appointment followed what the AfDB described as Nigeria’s leadership and ongoing reforms in the aviation sector. The bank said Keyamo would play a leading role in driving the implementation of the aviation transformation programme across the…

A Google employee has been arrested in the United States over allegations that he used confidential company information to place profitable bets on the cryptocurrency-based prediction platform, Polymarket. US prosecutors charged Michele Spagnuolo, a Google engineer and Italian citizen residing in Switzerland, with violating insider trading laws after allegedly making more than $1.2 million from bets linked to unreleased Google data. Spagnuolo was arrested on Wednesday and appeared before a federal judge in New York. Authorities said he has since been released on a $2.25 million bond. According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York,…

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Olakunle Nafiu, has warned corps members that they are not exempt from Nigeria’s cyberbullying and social media laws during their mandatory one-year national service. Nafiu stated this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja, stressing that corps members remain subject to the Constitution and all extant laws regulating online conduct and public behaviour. According to him, allegations of cyberbullying or other online offences involving corps members would be investigated and handled by relevant law enforcement agencies in line with the law. “The fact that…

Nollywood actress Regina Daniels has revealed that she is no longer interested in marriage following her separation from her estranged husband, Ned Nwoko. The actress and mother of two, however, said she still hopes to have more children, particularly a daughter, whom she believes would give her a deeper experience of motherhood. Daniels made the remarks during a livestream with TikToker Jarvis at her Children’s Day carnival held in Asaba, Delta State. Speaking on her current outlook on relationships and family, the actress said her perspective on marriage has changed, although her desire to expand her family remains strong. “But…

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC) have arrested a mother and her daughter for their alleged involvement in a romance scam that reportedly defrauded a Malta-based victim of more than N18 million. The arrests followed investigations into allegations of computer-related fraud, identity theft, and money laundering linked to an intelligence report received from the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). In a statement issued by the Acting Police Public Liaison Officer, DSP Uwana Imah, the suspects were identified as 39-year-old Urowhe Diana and her 22-year-old daughter, Rokibat Oluwasheyi Imoru. According to the police, preliminary investigations revealed that…

At least 13 people were killed and three others injured after an overloaded minivan collided with a truck on an expressway in central China, authorities said on Thursday. According to the traffic management bureau of China’s Ministry of Public Security, the accident occurred around 2:40 a.m. local time on the G40 expressway in Nanyang, Henan province. The minivan, which had a maximum capacity of nine passengers, was reportedly carrying 16 people when it crashed into the rear of a semi-trailer truck travelling ahead of it. In a statement posted on the Weibo social media platform, the bureau said the van…

Several girls were feared dead after a fire broke out at a boarding school in Kenya’s Nakuru County in the early hours of Thursday, according to local media reports. The fire reportedly started around 1:00 a.m. local time at Utumishi Girls Academy but was only reported at about 3:30 a.m., the Kenyan Red Cross said. Local media outlets gave varying casualty figures, with some reporting that at least 10 students were killed, while Citizen TV claimed 16 girls had died and 74 others were hospitalised. However, authorities had yet to officially confirm the number of casualties as of the time…

Operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a 22-year-old man, identified as Chigaemezu Joseph Chukwudi, for allegedly raping and blackmailing his 19-year-old neighbour in Owerri. The Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Audu Garba Bosso, disclosed this while addressing journalists at the Command headquarters in Owerri. According to the police boss, the suspect allegedly lured the victim, a seamstress whose identity was withheld, to a hotel in Owerri under the pretext that he wanted her to take his measurements and sew shirts for him and his friends. Bosso said investigations revealed that the suspect allegedly had non-consensual sexual…