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Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has condemned the attack on a United States consulate convoy that resulted in the killing and burning beyond recognition of four persons, and the abduction of about three others. The seven persons include two US Embassy staff, two Police Mobile Force officers, and their vehicles, as well as the likely abduction of three others …

Unknown assailants yesterday attacked a convoy of two U.S. government vehicles in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra state, Nigeria resulting in the death of at least four members of the convoy, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has confirmed. According to him, the convoy was carrying nine Nigerian nationals: five employees of the U.S. Mission to Nigeria and …

United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Tuesday morning called and spoke with Nigerian President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu to emphasize his continued commitment to further strengthening the U.S.-Nigeria relationship with the incoming administration. According to State Department’s Spokesperson, Matthew Miller Blinken noted that the U.S.-Nigeria partnership is built on shared interests and strong people-to-people ties and that those …

• Headline inflation rises to 22.22%• Experts blame high commercial lending rates  On May 29, President Muhammadu Buhari will leave behind an inflation rate of 22.22 per cent (the highest in about 17 years), which is well over double of the level he met in 2015. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), yesterday, released the last consumer price index (CPI) …

Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun has remanded the Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, for 48 hours in police custody for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Seun Kuti after his arrest Kuti, in a 12-second video clip that went viral on May 13, 2023, had assaulted a policeman on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State. The defendant turned himself in at the Lagos …

• Power generation at less than 50% of 2019 target• Stakeholders push decision on Siemens to Tinubu  Less than two weeks to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the failure of the much-hyped Nigeria-Germany electricity deal, expected to be implemented by Siemens, re-echoed yesterday, even as the national grid collapsed again, throwing the nation into darkness. Yesterday’s failure marked the …

Guinness World Records has released an official statement following the recent feat achieved by Nigerian chef Hilda Baci. Hilda Baci Baci, a Nigerian and an Akwa Ibom State native, surpassed the record for the longest cooking time by an individual, with a 100-hour record time. Baci beat Indian chef, Lata Tondon, who had completed the task in 87 hours, 45 …

No fewer than 20 persons have been killed in two communities of Fungzai and neighbouring Kubat in the newly created district of Bwai in the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State in North Central Nigeria. According to sources in the communities, the invaders attacked Kubat on Tuesday morning setting houses on fire. The marauders also attacked fleeing members with …

The Presidential Election Petition Court began its sitting in Abuja last Monday. It marked the unveiling of five members of the court panel to the public. The panel comprises five judges drawn from various divisions of the Court of Appeal. They are: *Haruna Tsammani, presiding justice of Abuja Division (63) *Stephen Adah, presiding justice, Asaba Division (65) *Misitura Bolaji-Yusuf, Asaba Division …

Washington (AP) — A special prosecutor found that the FBI rushed into its investigation of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and relied too much on raw and unconfirmed intelligence as he concluded a four-year probe that fell far short of the former president’s prediction that the “crime of the century” would be uncovered. The report Monday from …