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IRAN PRESIDENT EBRAHIM RAISI AND FOREIGN MINISTER DEAD IN HELICOPTER CRASH, SAYS STATE MEDIA
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash in foggy weather in the mountains near the border with Azerbaijan, Iranian state media has reported. Foreign minister Hossein Amir-abdollahian was among those killed. With Raisi and Amir-abdollahian in Sunday’s fatal crash were the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, the state-run…
GUNMEN RAZE HOUSES, BEHEADED TWO, KIDNAP SEVEN IN EBONYI
Two people were beheaded, seven others including women were kidnapped, and five houses were razed in an attack by suspected warlords early this morning at Ikachi village in the Akparata area of Effium, Ohaukwu Local Government Area, Ebonyi State. President General of the Effium community, Dr. James Agena, in a statement released in Abakaliki, the…
MINIMUM WAGE: NO WORKER CAN SURVIVE ON LESS THAN N100,000 – SHEHU SANI
Former Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has called on the Federal Government to address the issue of minimum wage, noting that no Nigerian worker can survive on less than N100,000 given the current economic situation in the country. Sani stated this in an interview with ARISE TV on the ongoing minimum wage controversy between…
NAIRA APPRECIATES ON OFFICIAL, PARALLEL FX MARKET AHEAD OF MPC MEETING
The naira appreciated by N90 on the parallel segment of the foreign exchange (FX) market yesterday, as it closed at N1,450/$1, compared to the previous day’s rate of N1,540/$1.The positive trend extended to the official Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEX) window, where the naira appreciated by N36.66, closing at N1,497.33/$1 compared to the N1,533.99/$1…
DOCTOR, NURSES NABBED OVER MISSING PLACENTA IN KWARA HOSPITAL
The police in Kwara State have commenced an investigation into the disappearance of the umbilical cord and placenta of a newborn baby at Government Cottage Hospital, Iloffa in the Oke-Ero Local Government Area of the state. The suspects detained by the police include a resident doctor, three nurses and a ward attendant at the hospital….
POLICE DISMISS INSPECTOR FOR ROBBERY, KIDNAPPING
The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed a police inspector and demoted three erring officers while sanctioning others over crimes and irregularities. The Force Headquarters made the development known in an official correspondent posted on the NPF X handle Friday night. The statement indicated that in a decisive move to uphold the highest standards of professionalism…
POLICE RESCUES VICTIMS OF MOTOR ACCIDENT IN ABIA STATE
The Abia Police Command have rescued Five victims who were involved in a fatal motor accident along Port Harcourt-Enugu Expressway, near Lekwesi Umuchieze in Umueneochi LGA of Abia State. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP Maureen Chinaka disclosed this in a statement that the driver lost control while descending a slope at…
TINUBU APPROVES PAYMENT OF N3.3TN POWER SECTOR DEBTS
As part of measures to address the epileptic power supply ravaging the country, President Bola Tinubu has approved the gradual payments of power sector debts estimated at over N3.3tn. Consequently, about N1.3tn owed power generating companies by the Federal Government will be paid via cash injections and promissory notes, while about $1.3bn (N1.994tn using the…
FG TO INAUGURATE N8.1BN ERINJE ELECTRICITY PROJECT IN ONDO
The Federal government is set to inaugurate the Eight point one Billion Naira, Erinje Electricity Project in Okitipupa council area of Ondo state by the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC. According to the states representative on the board of the commission, Honourable Otito Atikase, the electricity project, will be commissioned by the Minister of the…
WEST AFRICA MUST UNITE TO DEFEAT TERRORISM, BANDITRY, TINUBU TELLS FAYE
President Bola Tinubu has called on West African countries to unite to defeat terrorism, human trafficking, banditry and other criminal activities affecting the region. President Tinubu made the call at the State House in Abuja while receiving President Bassirou Faye of Senegal where he advised leaders in the region to make the people the point…