Author: Naija Daily News

By Deborah Sunday Nnamdi NIGERIA: The Joint Representatives Council of Ogoni Youth Groups (JRC) has strongly condemned and refuted a recent press statement by Raymond Nwibani, calling for the removal of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission. In a statement signed by Ledogo Amabu, JRC Chairman and Convener of the Ogoni Comrades and Patriots Forum, the council described Nwibani as an “unauthorized comrade” who needs to “report back to base for training.” JRC, a coalition of Ogoni youths, students, women, and civil society organizations, emphasized its social license to protect Ogoni’s overall interest and development.…

By Deborah Sunday Nnamdi The Acting Executive Secretary of Rivers State Contributory Health Protection Programme (RIVCHPP), Dr Vetty Agala, has called on civil servants and student associations to develop programmes that improve their welfare, particularly in healthcare. RIVCHPP is touted by the state government as “a health insurance program, providing quality healthcare services to its enrollees. Ensuring comprehensive coverage, it caters to the diverse medical needs of the population.” During an advocacy visit to Rivers State Television, Dr Agala urged civil servants to embrace the government’s programs, noting that Governor Siminialayi Fubara’s administration has introduced the contributory health insurance scheme…

By Deborah Sunday Nnamdi The Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested a suspect linked to the disturbing viral nude video of a young girl that has been circulating on social media platforms. The Police Public Relations Officer, Musa Mohammed, an Assistant Superintendent of Police on Friday, September 6, the 24-year-old suspect identified as Godgift Bai from Ogbolomabori in Nembe Local Government Area was apprehended in Yenagoa on September 3, 2024. The arrest was made possible by operatives of the Cyber Crime Unit, who carried out a thorough investigation following the directive of Commissioner of Police Bayelsa State Command, CP Alonyenu…

A chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Delta State, Dr Paul Bebenimibo, has urged the state governor, Sheriff Oborevwori to urgently address infrastructure challenges, including dilapidated federal roads in the state. Dr Bebenimibo, a former Commission of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, tasked Oborevwori to borrow a leaf from former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike who built 12 bridges in two years. He expressed displeasure at the deplorable state of roads in the state, especially the Eke-Obiaruku-Agbor road, which connects some eight local government areas in the state. Dr. PE Bebenimibo urge Oberevwori to fix…

By Deborah Sunday Nnamdi NIGERIA: The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 12 40-feet containers ladened with illicit hard drugs, military fatigue, footwear, and other goods worth over N31billion at Area 2 Command, Onne ports, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The Customs said the interception of the illicit cargoes followed credible intelligence and collaboration with sister security agencies. It declared a three-month emergency protocol at the ports to further sanitize nefarious activities. It came barely six weeks after the interception of 844 units of assorted rifles, 112,500 rounds of ammunition and other contraband goods at the port in July. Addressing newsmen…

DNA Report Place Men on Quest for Paternity Tests NIGERIA: There is tension in many Nigerian homes as men angle to know the right paternity of their children in the wake of a recent report that showed that more than 27% of children born in Nigeria are given to the wrong fathers. Our findings showed that the report released by Smart DNA, a leading DNA testing centre in Lagos, has raised the curiosity of men who are increasingly desirous of timely tests to determine the true paternity of their children. Many women are against their spouses’ requests for DNA tests…

NIGERIA: Police in Lagos have arrested Idera Bassey, a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) doctor over a failed surgery that led to the death of a patient in the highbrow Lekki area of the state. Sources said the victim, simply identified as Abiola, slumped and died after a nurse at Idera Bassey’s hospital administered an injection to her. “The operation had not even started before she died. They said Abiola fainted after they injected her and was rushed to another hospital in Lekki, but she was declared DOA (dead on arrival)”, our source said. Our findings showed that BBL, a medical…

Microsoft founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, has said that Nigeria should be a net exporter of food given its vast arable and its huge population. He said Africa’s most populous country has no business importing when it can double its food production and earn foreign exchange with the right support to farmers in the form of credit facilities, soil surveys and farm inputs, among others. Gates made the remake today in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, at the Nutrivision 2024, a pan-African youth dialogue on nutrition in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja. He said, “In…

By Deborah Nnamdi NIGERIA: The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has uncovered an illegal bunkering operation in the forest of Umuedeokwara Community, Etche Local Government Area, Rivers State. The Corps spokesperson, Afolabi Babawale, in a statement on Tuesday, said the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad discovered it while conducting an operation to combat oil theft in the region. The CG’s SIS Commander, Deputy Commandant Appolos Dandaura, revealed that the operation was predicated on intelligence inputs indicating the establishment of an illicit refinery on the site. “The criminals were siphoning crude oil from international oil pipelines using constructed and galvanized…

Prices of foodstuffs, transportation, others to go up Tuesday’s increase in the pump price of PMS across the country by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, could trigger another civil unrest, an investigation by NDN has revealed. The NNPCL adjusted pump prices by up to 80% across its outlets across the country with petrol prices reaching up to N1,300 in some parts of the country, infuriating labour unions and civil society groups. The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mr Heineken Lokpobiri, had denied giving the state-owned petroleum company the nod to increase prices, but many Nigerians are unimpressed by the…