The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has handed over 21 boys rescued from alleged human traffickers, to the Niger State Government. Director-General of NAPTIP, Binta Adamu Bello, handed over the children to officials of the Niger State Government in Abuja on Tuesday. She explained that the children, aged…
A Nigerian World Bank employee, Vivian Irondi, has advised men to invest in their female children as women play an important role in wealth creation. The mother of two gave the advice in a post on Wednesday while addressing men who leave their wives for not bearing male children. Citing an example, she…
A father-of-three was electrocuted to de@th while trying to warm himself with an electric hairdryer in cold weather in Thailand. Bedridden husband, Jaising Suphasing, 39, was using the appliance as a makeshift heater in the dilapidated home where he and his family lived in Nonthaburi province. He had fallen asleep with the blowdryer aimed at his legs, but was zapped to de@th when…
A gang of American drug runners recruited by cartel bosses were busted in the toilets at Manchester Airport while waiting for luggage containing 8million of cocaine. According to Mail Online, the couriers; five women and two men were recruited by drug barons in the US and offered between 3,000 and 4,000 to fly to the UK and pick…
A 15-year-old boy stormed a small regional airport in Arkansas with an AR-style rifle while demanding a plane. The unidentified teenager entered Signature Aviation, a business at the Texarkana Regional Airport, around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, and approached the front counter flashing the rifle and a handgun, demanding an aircraft and access to the…
US President Donald Trump said Thursday, February 6, that “no soldiers by the US would be needed” in his Gaza proposal, days after he announced that the United States could “take over” and “own” the Gaza Strip. “No soldiers by the US would be needed! Stability for the region would reign!!!” he said in an…
The House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review has disclosed that it has received proposals for the creation of 31 additional states to the existing 36 in Nigeria. The chairman of the committee and deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, made this announcement on Thursday during plenary while reading a…
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has announced a 15% tariff increase, marking the first adjustment in 32 years. The announcement was made on Thursday in Lagos during a stakeholders’ engagement for the implementation of the approved tariff hike. NPA Managing Director Abubakar Dantsoho, represented by the Executive Director of Marine and Operations, Olalekan…
Daniel Bwala, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on policy communication, has stated that Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, lacks the capacity to “unsettle” the president. Speaking during an interview with TVC News on Thursday, February 6, Bwala added that Tinubu is not losing sleep over el-Rufai’s persistent criticism of his administration. …
Operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested four suspects for illegal possession of firearms, kidnapping and banditry in a bid to combat economic sabotage and fighting Insecurity across the federation. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the NSCDC, Babawale Zaid Afolabi, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday,…
