No fewer than 17 federal government agencies have been ranked completely inefficient by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) in its latest Business Facilitation Act (BFA) Performance Report which rates how ministries, departments and agencies are enabling the ease of doing business in Nigeria through implementation of reforms, policies and public service delivery. The…
Armed bandits have abducted the traditional ruler of Yankuzo, Alhaji Babangida Kogo, in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State, barely hours after a devastating Nigerian Air Force (NAF) airstrike killed dozens of bandits in a forest enclave near the area. The monarch was reportedly abducted on Tuesday evening along the Mararraba axis as he…
A United States District Court in Sherman, Texas, has sentenced five Nigerian nationals to nearly 160 years in jail over their involvement in a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme that obtained from at least 100 individual victims, companies, and government entities from across the world. The announcement was made by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command have intercepted two suspected arms traffickers transporting a large cache of high-grade firearms and ammunition from Benue to Kwara State. It was gathered that the suspects were apprehended in the early hours of Wednesday following actionable intelligence. This was contained in a statement…
A Nigerian who specialises in money laundering and other transnational crimes was over the weekend arrested for treason, subversive activities against government, Trans-border gun-running, heist, and other Transnational crimes. The man whose name was given as one Bashir Hadeja was arrested by the Nigeria police following intelligence reports on smuggling large catches of weapons along…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the father of Super Eagles goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali has sadly passed away. On Friday, Nwabali shared the heartbreaking news with his followers on Instagram, posting a tribute alongside a tearful emoji. While the footballer did not disclose the specific cause of his father’s death, he expressed his grief with a poignant…
At least 12 people were killed after two gunmen opened fire at a Jewish festival in Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Australia, on Sunday. NSW police confirmed the incident in a statement, declaring it a terror attack. One of the alleged shooters has been killed, the police said. “The second alleged shooter is in critical condition.” Among…
Operatives of the zone 2 police command have arrested McDonald Okpara, a Lagos hotelier, for allegedly sodomising two teenage boys. An investigating police officer (IPO) attached to the Isheri-Osun police division was also arrested for allegedly doctoring statements and medical reports in the case. Okpara, identified as the owner of Empire hotel in the Ejigbo…
A 38-year-old man, Samaila Salisu, has denied the paternity of his estranged wife, Maryam Ibrahim’s three-month-old pregnancy. Salisu told the Sharia Court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna, Kaduna State that, he had s3xual intercourse with his wife only six times since they got married. Salisu said: “I had intercourse with her only six times since we…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will depart Abuja on Sunday for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to attend the Joint Arab-Islamic Summit, which will focus on the current situation in the Middle East. This was stated in a press release issued on Saturday by Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy. The statement…