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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…

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…

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…

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…

By Deborah Nnamdi NIGERIA: Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has emphasized the need to strengthen the relationship between the State and the Canadian Government to attract more investments, drive economic growth, and enhance healthcare services in the State. According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, …

A British citizen and Nigerian accomplice have been declared wanted by the Nigerian Police over an alleged plot to oust the country’s elected president, Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu, through civil unrest. The British national, Andrew Wynne (alias Andrew Povich) and his Nigerian collaborator, Lucky Obiyan, hatched the plot at the…

Amaka Patience Sonnberger, the Nigerian-born Canadian citizen behind the infamous kpai Yoruba and Bini rant has been arrested by the Toronto Police Department in Canada. The Toronto Police Service confirmed the arrest and provided details of the ongoing case in a statement titled: “Suspected hate-motivated threatening investigation, woman arrested,” Ms…

NIGERIA: The University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, said it is seeking to upscale its minimal access surgery technique in the medical facility, against the popular conventional open incision method. The Minimal Access Surgical technique involves accessing surgical sites in the body using cameras and other delicate equipment without…

NIGERIA: Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have attacked Faudiya School, owned by a Shiia Islamic sect, in Geidam LGA of Yobe State, Northeastern Nigeria, killing at least three students, and wounding one other. Eyewitnesses’ accounts of the incident said the youths were dragged out of their beds in the Islamic Sect…