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The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has commenced an investigation into the aircraft accident in the Ikeja area of Lagos on Monday. A media officer at the NSIB, Tunji Oketunbi, in a statement, described the aircraft as “a Jabiru J430, a light single airplane with Nationality and Registration Marks 5N-CCQ operated by Air First Hospitality & Tours, which occurred around …

Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has urged the federal government not to follow the dictates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), saying it should trade with countries that accept naira as exchange rate. He also admonished President Bola Tinubu’s administration to enforce the Central Bank Act and take charge of the country’s economy. Falana disclosed this while speaking with …

The Nigeria Labour Congress, Kano Chapter, on Wednesday, embarked on a peaceful protest which has paralysed business and commercial activities in the metropolitan city of Kano. This is in compliance with the nationwide protest called by the NLC over the FG’s removal of fuel subsidy. The Kano NLC protest march began at the Murtala Mohammed Library, Ahmadu Bello Way, and …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has refuted the claim of President Bola Tinubu that N1 trillion has been saved since his government ceased payment of fuel subsidy. In a nationwide broadcast on Monday, the president revealed that a total of N1 trillion had been saved since subsidy payment was stopped. Speaking during the ongoing nationwide protest of orgaised labour, Comrade …

Angry protesters have pulled down the gate of the National Assembly complex in Abuja. Earlier, the protesters led by the leaders of the Organised Labour, Joe Ajaero of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Festus Osifo of the Trade Union Congress asked security operatives stationed at the legislative building to open the gate to allow the angry workers to express their …

• Rumour of reconsidering protest handwork of fifth columnists –Labour• Gbajabiamila: We are hopeful Labour won’t protest• Ajaero lists demands before protests can be suspended• No room for violent protests, IGP warns NLC, TUC• Police disperse demonstrators in Kano warm up protest• Northern CSOs pull out of strike, another coalition warns against repeat of #EndSARS• Lukman accuses NLC of playing …

Donald Trump has been indicted on criminal charges by a federal grand jury in a case that strikes at the former president’s efforts to remain in the White House after losing the 2020 election and undermine the long-held American tradition of a peaceful transfer of presidential power. Trump is scheduled to appear at the Washington, DC, federal courthouse at 4 …

Edo State Government has commenced a two-week training for over 1,500 hunters and personnel of the Edo State Vigilante Security Network on weapons handling and intelligence gathering. Addressing journalists at the Police Training College, in Benin City, the Coordinator, Edo State Security Network, Col. Kole Oshoriamhe Omomia (Rtd), said the training, in its second batch, is aimed at bolstering the …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Edo, Nigeria – Former senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Pharm. Matthew Urhoghide has declared his intention to contest the governorship election of 2024 in Edo State, saying he is consulting with a party to be announced in few weeks. Ex-senator Urhoghide disclosed this, today at the state Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Edo, Nigeria – Vandals suspected to be corpse snatchers have attacked an embattled ‘mortuary’ where over 20 mummified bodies were discovered in Benin City, last August. This was revealed when our crime correspondent fact-checked a tip-off received last week about the site along Asoro slope, Ekehuan road, Uzebu quarters in the State capital. It was …