Author: Naija Daily News

By Deborah Nnamdi The Nigeria Police Force has neutralized seven terrorists and recovered 23 firearms, along with assorted ammunition, in recent operations across the country. In a statement issued on Sunday via X, the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the operations were part of efforts to dismantle criminal networks and enhance internal security. The statement noted that on February 14, 2025, armed men invaded Gobiraje Village in Suru Local Government Area of Kebbi State and kidnapped a 60-year-old man, Umaru Bawa. Police operatives in Kebbi State trailed the suspects to Tundafari Forest in the Dakingari axis, where…

By Douglas Maha, with agency report The latest rating by Fitch Rating has revealed that just two of the 21 commercial banks have met the mandatory N500 billion capital base requirement of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. The reputable American credit rating agency said some of the 19 other banks require significant capital injections to meet the new CBN threshold. The new requirements were introduced by the CBN to strengthen the stability of the banking sector and ensure that banks can better withstand economic pressures such as currency volatility and inflation. Fitch said only Access Holding and Zenith banks…

The priest in charge of St Patrick Catholic Catholic church, Isiokpe, Ikwerre Local Government Area, Rivers State, Reverend Father Livinus Maurice, and two other persons were abducted last Wednesday. Police sources said gunmen snatched the trio on their way from hospital visitation in the locality. The Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt confirmed the incident. A statement by the church revealed that the incident occurred on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, along the Isiokpo-Elele Road in the State. The statement by the Chancellor of the Diocese, Reverend Father Bernadine Anaele, said the matter has been reported to the security agencies. The statement…

By Deborah Nnamdi A Canadian tourist, Nathalie Ross is reported to have lost both hands in a shark attack while trying to interact with the animal for a photograph. The incident occurred on February 7 at around 10:30 a.m. in the shallow waters off Thompson’s Cove Beach, located on the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. According to reports, Ross’s husband attempted to fend off the shark before she was brought to shore.Distressing photos from the scene showed her lying on the beach as her husband and others work desperately to stop the bleeding. Reports stated that, in addition…

By Deborah Nnamdi A woman who accused hip-hop stars Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 dropped her civil lawsuit on Friday, court records showed. Jay-Z — real name Shawn Carter — was accused in December of raping the girl with Combs at a party following the MTV Video Music Awards in September of 2000. The document filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York claims the accuser “hereby gives notice that the above-captioned action is voluntarily dismissed, with prejudice” — meaning the suit cannot be refiled. It was…

Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprise, Ayodeji Ariyo Gbeleyi, on Friday, told the House of Representatives Committee on Public Assets that Delta Steel Company, worth over 700 million dollars, was sold for a paltry 30 million dollars. Gbeleyi told the Committee that following the privatization policy of the Federal Government, 80% of shareholdings of Delta Steel Company in Aladja, Delta state, was sold to Global Infrastructure Nigeria Ltd (GINL) in 2005 while the Federal Government, through the BPE, retained 20% shareholding. According to him, residential buildings and plots of land belonging to the Delta Steel Company were used…

By Deborah Nnamdi The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has denied claims that it sells substandard petrol with a high burn rate. In a statement on Saturday by its spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, the NNPCL said it was reacting to a viral video claiming that its petrol does not last long in fuel tanks. Recall that a video had surfaced online where a content creator claimed he bought a liter of Dangote petrol from MRS filling station in Alapere, Lagos, at N925 and the same liter at NNPC in Ojodu Berger at the rate of N945. According to him, he poured…

By Deborah Nnamdi Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a Catholic Priest attached to Port Harcourt Diocese, Rev. Father Livinus Maurice, along with two others. Maurice is the Parish Priest of St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Isokpo, the Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. The identities of the two others abducted alongside the priest could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report on Saturday evening. The priest was reportedly abducted while returning from a hospital visitation along the Elele-Isiokpo Road in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday. According to a statement…

By Deborah Nnamdi One Yetunde Lawal, a female final year student of the Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, has been gruesomely murdered by her Facebook friend suspected to be the son of a prominent Islamic cleric, throwing the academic community and family of the victim into mourning. The victim reportedly went missing on Monday, February 10, after attending a naming ceremony where she allegedly received a phone call from a friend, then dropped her food and left the ceremony. It was further gathered that her father, Ibrahim Lawal, reported the case of a missing person on Tuesday, the following…

By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal command have arraigned another 11 Chinese nationals and a company before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos for fraud. In a statement shared via the anti-graft agency’s X handle on Friday, EFCC said the suspects were arraigned on separate charges bordering on cyber-terrorism, cybercrimes, possession of documents containing pretense, advance fee fraud, and identity theft. According to EFCC, the accused are part of a group of 792 suspects connected to alleged cryptocurrency investment and romance fraud. The statement partly reads:…