Author: Naija Daily News

A 300-level student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Goddy Mbakwe Precious, could be rusticated from the institution as Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph I. Ikechebelu, demanded action on her alleged assault of a lecturer. A video of Precious, of the Department of History and International Studies, digging her incisors into the flesh of Dr Chukwudi Okoye of the Department of Theatre Arts, recently went viral on the internet prompting the UNIZIK management to take action. Naija Daily News gathered that the student’s mother is a senior lecturer in the institution. The Acting Head of Information, Public Relations, and Protocol, Njelita Louis,…

By Deborah Nnamdi The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Illela Border Command, has arrested a suspected human trafficker, Sirajo Illela, and rescued two female victims who were allegedly being smuggled to Libya. The arrest was made at Illela’s family residence in the Yar Kara area of Illela Local Government Area of the State on Wednesday, February 12. The Comptroller of the Command, Mr. Tony Akuneme, disclosed this in a statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Mohammed, in Abuja. According to Akuneme, the victims—Maryam Akinosi, 40, from Ogun State, and Olatunde Abidemi, 26, from Oyo State—were found without valid…

By Deborah Nnamdi An Ogba Magistrate Court in Lagos State, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a 56-year-old policeman Owolabi Akinlolu at the Maximum Correctional Centre Kirikiri for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl in his office. Owolabi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police at the Ogudu Police Station in Lagos, allegedly raped the survivor in his office after promising to help recover her phone, which was stolen by one-chance robbers while she was returning from Ikeja with her grandmother and siblings. Akinlolu reportedly summoned the teenager to his office on June 29, claiming they had apprehended the suspect who had stolen…

The Federal Government has taken full control of Keystone Bank Limited, after its former shareholder, Sigma Golf Nigeria Limited, lost the legal tussle to control the bank. A Lagos State Special Offences Court on February 11, 2025, convicted Sigma Golf in a case initiated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on an alleged N20 billion fraudulent diversion through Heritage Bank for the acquisition of Keystone Bank shares. The court ordered the forfeiture of Sigma Golf’s shares in Keystone Bank to the federal government., with the court ruling that Sigma Golf’s interest in over 6.25 billion units of Keystone…

By Deborah Nnamdi Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals has reduced the gantry price of its diesel by 5 percent to N1,020 per liter from N1,075 to impact the lives of customers and Nigerians. Since it began diesel production in January 2024, the refinery has reduced the price of diesel more than three times, from an initial N1,700 per liter to the current rate, thus providing much-needed relief to manufacturers and consumers alike. The latest reduction of N55 per liter for diesel follows the revelation by Development Economist and Public Policy Analyst Prof. Ken Ife that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery sacrificed…

Chevron Nigeria Limited is the biggest contributor to internally generated revenue of Delta State, the company has revealed. Chairman and Managing Director of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), Jim Swartz, who made the disclosure in Asaba, Delta State state capital, did not reveal how much the America mutlinational oil company paid. He, however, reaffirmed CNL’s commitment to the socio-economic development of Delta State, according to a statement made available to reporters by Olusoga Oduselu, General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs. The CNL MD made the remarked when he led a power delegation of the firm to Governor Sheriff Oborevwori in…

By Deborah Nnamdi Gunmen suspected to be members of the Greenland cult have launched an attack on military personnel guarding a crude oil pipeline in Okporowo community, Igbu Orlukwor clan, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, sending shockwaves through the community. The attack, which occurred on Monday, February 10, 2025, at about 11 am, left one military personnel with life-threatening injuries, although no fatalities were reported. According to sources, the cultists, led by one of their leaders who is on the watchlist of security agencies in the state, opened fire on the military personnel, prompting a swift response…

By Deborah Nnamdi A police constable serving with the Nasarawa Police Command, identified as Dogara Akolo Moses, has allegedly taken his own life for unknown reasons. On the day of the incident, February 4, 2025, Moses was earlier seen by colleagues going about his normal duties at the Mada Divisionz in Nasarawa Eggon LGA. He was said to have later shot himself to death in one of the offices without leaving any suicide note. The officer was said to have gone into a private room and shot himself, while the sound of the gun prompted all officers on duty to…

By Deborah Nnamdi A 26-year-old lady, Rachael, has narrated how she sold her two-week-old baby for the sum of N600,000 due to her inability to cater for her. Rachael, a resident of Asaba, Delta State was paraded at the State Police Command alongside two other accomplices by the State’s Command spokesperson, Bright Edafe. She said she is a mother of one other male child and that she had to give away the two-week-old baby girl because she was finding it difficult to take care of the two children. She said the father of the two-week-old baby denied paternity of the…

By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a 40-year-old woman, Onyinyechi Emeka, from Isiala Ngwa South LGA, Abia State, with a stolen four-year-old boy. According to a press statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Henry Okoye, the woman was apprehended by officers of Okigwe Divisional Headquarters during a stop-and-search operation. He said the investigation revealed that the child was stolen from his mother’s shop at No. 22 Chimezie Street, Obohia, Aba, Abia State. Okoye hinted that the suspect initially claimed that the boy was her sister’s son, but that the inconsistency in…