FOI: CSO writes state pilgrims boards on Hajj refund, seeks details of deposits
General News
August 2, 2021
FOI: CSO writes state pilgrims boards on Hajj refund, seeks details of deposits
By BASHIR ADEFAKA The Independent Hajj Reporters (IHR), a civil society organisation that reports and monitors Hajj and Umrah…
IMF approves new loan for Cameroon despite corruption claim
Africa
August 2, 2021
IMF approves new loan for Cameroon despite corruption claim
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a three-year financing arrangement worth nearly $700 million with Cameroon, despite calls to…
Zambia President deploys army to quell violence ahead of vote
Africa
August 2, 2021
Zambia President deploys army to quell violence ahead of vote
Zambian President Edgar Lungu (pictured) has ordered the deployment of the military to quell electoral violence ahead of the August…
Heavy calamity befalls Boko Haram, ISWAP as military troops shell terrorists in Gubio, Borno
Defence
August 2, 2021
Heavy calamity befalls Boko Haram, ISWAP as military troops shell terrorists in Gubio, Borno
Scores of Boko Haram-ISWAP terrorists came under heavy attack after troops of the Nigerian military shelled their hideouts in the…
NIGERIA: Military working for North East farmers to return to farms – Theatre Commander
Defence
August 2, 2021
NIGERIA: Military working for North East farmers to return to farms – Theatre Commander
The Theatre Commander of Operation Hadin Kai, Major General Christopher Musa, has said that officers and men of the Command…
SSS produces Sunday Igboho’s suspected armed guards, aides in court
General News
August 2, 2021
SSS produces Sunday Igboho’s suspected armed guards, aides in court
The Nigeria’s State Security Services (SSS), on Monday, presented the suspected armed guards abs aides of Sunday Igboho at the…
Why I want to be Senator, Okoi Obono-Obla opens up on 2023 intention for Cross River Central
General News
August 2, 2021
Why I want to be Senator, Okoi Obono-Obla opens up on 2023 intention for Cross River Central
By BASHIR ADEFAKA Chairman of the defunct Presidential Special Investigative Panel, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, has revealed his reason for wanting…
HAJJ 2021: When the going gets tough
Comments
August 2, 2021
HAJJ 2021: When the going gets tough
By IBRAHIM MUHAMMED Anxiety, expectations, rising and falling hopes, prayers and supplications from intending pilgrims and Hajj administrators for Hajj…
SUNDAY IGBOHO: The Benin Republic extradition process Nigeria would have avoided, if tribalist ‘warlord’ had been acted upon on time – Media Comment
Africa
August 2, 2021
SUNDAY IGBOHO: The Benin Republic extradition process Nigeria would have avoided, if tribalist ‘warlord’ had been acted upon on time – Media Comment
*Demands law be allowed to take its course “All this theatricals and paperwork would have been avoided if the…
NDLEA recovers 35 wraps of cocaine from lady’s underwear at Lagos airport
General News
August 1, 2021
NDLEA recovers 35 wraps of cocaine from lady’s underwear at Lagos airport
*Intercepts drugs going to Italy, Turkey; seizes bandits’ supply in Niger By BASHIR ADEFAKA Operatives of the National Drug Law…