The national electricity grid collapsed on Saturday, leading to a nationwide blackout. Data obtained from the Nigerian system operator’s portal showed that the grid recorded zero megawatts (MW) as of 9.10am today. The system failure at the national grid is the third time within a week. However, the national grid has collapsed eight times in…
Popular crossdresser Idris Okuneye, known as Bobrisky, will be transferred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) office in Abuja for interrogation regarding allegations of bribery and corruption. Bobrisky was stopped and removed from an Amsterdam-bound KLM flight at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos by EFCC officials on Thursday night. Bobrisky, according to…
Hauwa Abulazeez, a 65-year-old woman, was nabbed for allegedly supplying drugs to Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East. Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have arrested a 65-year-old woman, Hauwa Abulazeez, over her alleged involvement in supplying drugs to Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East. Disclosing this in a statement on Sunday, spokesman for the Joint…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has charged supporters, Rivers people, and Nigerians to thank President Bola Tinubu for his swift intervention to salvage the state from anarchy arising from the festering political crisis. He also said that the peace and reconciliation process, which was a precursor to restoring all executive and legislative institutions and offices,…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters (NAPTIP) has placed Nigerian singer, Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington, on an international watch list over allegations of sexual involvement with a minor. The agency confirmed it has also alerted the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) after the musician…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Segun Showunmi, has described former presidential candidate Peter Obi as lazy when it comes to structural thinking. Showunmi made the statement on Saturday during an interview on Hard Copy, a programme on Channels. He said, “Peter Obi is not serious. He doesn’t know where his victory card…
Amarachi Nwosu, 32, cannot forget the chaos that engulfed the Holy Trinity Catholic Church grounds this morning. Although she and her three-year-old son almost died, she is apprehensive about where the next meal will come from. Clutching her three-year-old son, Obinna, she recalls the desperate push of the crowd as thousands scrambled to receive palliatives….
Lawmaker representing Kano South Senatorial District, Kawu Sumaila, has sparked controversy by stating that it was former President Muhammadu Buhari, not President Bola Tinubu, who removed the fuel subsidy. He made the assertion on Channels TV’s Politics Today. He explained that the provision for fuel subsidy typically covered only the first half of the year….
Disc jockey Florence Otedola alias DJ Cuppy has said that a spiritual awakening shifted the course of her career. The 31-year-old reflected in an X post on how her growing spirituality led her down an unexpected path — but one that ultimately brought greater fulfilment. Cuppy, as she is also called, was baptised at Holy…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) has vowed to down tools after the expiration of the 14-day Ultimatum given to the Federal Government to meet their demands. Briefing Journalists, in Calabar, the Zonal Coordinator, ASUU Calabar Zone, Comrade Happiness Uduk who read a jointly signed release by all Chairpersons of the zone said that…
