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Officials of the Federal Fire Service, FFS, Wuse Zonal office, Monday, successfully subdued inferno that almost razed down the Wuse 2 Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The fire fighters led by the Sector Commander, Melone Onyekachi, arrived the Wuse 2 office of the Commission when the Service was alerted of the fire by the Incident Duty Officer of the Commission, Kayode Oyetunde, at 1910 hours. The fire started at the former newsroom which now serves as storage for ICT equipments that were retrieved from the commission’s former offices scattered across the capital city. The former newsroom is domiciled in the two-storey Costa Hall which was commissioned by Antonio Costa on November 13, 2007. The building currently houses the Data Centre and the Combined Inter Agency Task Force. When asked what could have caused the fire, Mr. Onyekachi said, “Our duty is to put off the fire; that we have successfully done. There is another department that will come a...

Nigerians living in the U.S. have converged on New Jersey to celebrate the 12th Annual Nigerian Sports and Cultural Carnival organized by the Nigerian Sports and Cultural Organization. The carnival featured the Yoruba board game ‘ayo’, football, table tennis, chess, draft, dancing and musical performance, awards presentation, etc. Nigeria’s consul general in New York, Lot Egopija, who led the staff of the consulate general to the carnival, pledged to use cultural and sports carnivals to unite Nigerians living in the U.S. Mr Egopija explained that the consulate general would participate and partner the organizers to strengthen the bond of friendship among Nigerians in the diaspora. “We will continue to elaborate on our efforts to support our nationals in New Jersey and other states within the jurisdiction of the consulate general,” the envoy noted. “This is a mandate that we have, and we will continue to provide consular services to our nationals. We will continue to make sure that ever...

also. President Muhammadu Buhari presides over FEC and the Launch of the Newly Redesigned Naira Notes in State House on 23rd No 2022 President Buhari alongside CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele, Minister of State Finance, Budget and National Planning Clement Agba, Managing Director of Nigerian Security, Printing and Minting Ahmed Halilu, Chairman ICPC Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye and Chairman EFCC Abdulrasheed Bawa as he presides over FEC and the Launch of the Newly Redesigned Naira Notes in State House on 23rd No 2022 Thank you for reading. Kindly 

Norway has donated $11.5m approximately N3.6bn to improve basic education, support girls and women who have been victims of sexual violence by Boko Haram in conflict-affected northeast states.

At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of fear. With a panic stricken face and trembling voice,she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach. Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky. The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but ...it landed on another lady in the group.

The ghost town sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday (today) got bloody in Nnewi as two people have reportedly died in an alleged confrontation between the Army and suspected members of the IPOB. According to an eyewitness account, the confrontation occurred at the Izuchukwu junction area of the roundabout in the industrial town and the two people who are reported to have died include a leader of Eastern Security Network (ESN) and a commercial motorcyclist. THE AUTHORITY, an online news platform, claimed that the incident started around 7.00 am in the morning when some members of IPOB came out to enforce the sit-at-home order and in the process barricaded the major roads in Nnewi, an industrial town in Anambra State. The eyewitness stated that some unidentified soldiers, however, showed up to clear the roadblock items leading to an altercation between them and the IPOB members. Sources mentioned that the two victims were actually killed by gun...

No fewer than 5, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in 27 camps in embattled Borno state in northeast Nigeria are currently living with HIV/AIDS.

THE people of Abraka Kingdom, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, cried out that they were under siege by rampaging Fulani herdsmen. 

An official of EKEDC has said that there is not transformer apportioned to KIRIKIRI town by the Local Council in their custody at their office. The official in a conversation with KIRIKIRI News media said that the office is not aware that the transformer sitting at Shokumbi street is no longer there. In a concerned bid to arrest the situation, The official directed the community to question the Local council authorities concerning the Transformers which was given to the community and who they were handed over to inside the community. This missing transformer has kept some families in darkness as the load which causes trip off is too heavy for the transformer sitting at Otun Street Junction. More details later….. Thank you for reading. Kindly share also.