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Jul

2025

Customs intercept container of donkey genitals on Kaduna–Abuja road

METRO#Donkeygenitals, #Interception, #NigeriaCustomsService

Customs intercept container of donkey genitals on Kaduna–Abuja road Nigeria Customs Service agents, yesterday, halted a 40-foot container conveying donkey parts on the Kaduna–Abuja Motorway. This was disclosed to newsmen during a press conference, yesterday, Thursday, 10, in Abuja, by Mr. Adewale Adeniyi, the Comptroller-General of Customs (CG). After a coordinated surveillance operation by personnel from the Special Wildlife Office and Customs Intelligence Unit, the contents of the container—which were suspected of being headed for illegal export—were discovered on Friday, June 5, 2025, at approximately 9 p.m. The CG, who was accompanied by Abdullahi Maiwada, the Service’s National Public Relations…

Jul

2025

By Famous Reporters

Goosebumps , As Man, 63 rapes 14-year-old boy, gifts him $50 bill compensation

CRIME, METRO#Arraignment, #QueensCriminalCourt, #Rape, #VirgilioTaveras

Goosebumps , As Man, 63 rapes 14-year-old boy, gifts him $50 bill compensation Authorities have expressed worries over a sad incident involving a sick man who may have victimised more minors after he allegedly raped a 14-year-old boy and gave him a $50 cash as a compensation for the upsetting encounter. According to the criminal complaint, Virgilio Taveras, 63, enticed the adolescent into his car and $•£•×•ually att@cked him near the intersection of 175th Street and Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, at approximately 1 p.m…. The sick man who was identified as Virgilio Taveras, has been arrested for allegedly assaulting…

Jul

2025

By Famous Reporters

How I lost my leg doing pedicure, Nigerian man wails *A must read

METRO#Amputation, #Himalayansalt, #King’sHospitalLondon, #OlubiyiJibowu, #Pedicure, #Selfmedication

How I lost my leg doing pedicure, Nigerian man wails*A must read A Nigerian man has narrated how hw lost one of his legs after a home pedicure went wrong. A Nigerian man who gave himself a pedicure at home had to have his leg amputated when the treatment went wrong. Olubiyi Jibowu said he ran a bath, added Himalayan salt and soaked his feet, but the 57-year-old didn’t realise how hot the water was until he pulled his feet out and saw angry blisters all over them. Instead of seeing a doctor, he treated the burns himself with Dettol,…

Jul

2025

By Famous Reporters

Senate approves N200m compensation for Family of 2 year old killed by stray bullet fired by NDLEA official in Delta

NATIONAL NEWS#Compensation, #IGPKayodeAdeoluEgbetokun, #IvanOnoseOmhonrina, #NationalDrugLawEnforcementAgency, #NDLEA, #SenateCommitteeonEthics, #SenatorNedaImaseun, #Straybullet

Senate approves N200m compensation for Family of 2 year old killed by stray bullet fired by NDLEA official in Delta The sum of N200 million has been approved for the family of the 2-years-old baby, Ivan Onose Omhonrina, who was accidentally shot de@d during a raid on a notorious drug joint by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Delta State on July 13, 2023. The Senate gave the approval during the plenary today, when the matter came up following a petition submitted by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Senator Neda Imaseun. Part of…

Jul

2025

By Famous Reporters

Akpabio replaces Natasha as diaspora committee chair

NATIONAL NEWS#committeeondiasporaandNGOs, #Senate, #SenatorGodswillAkpabio, #SenatorNatashaAkpotiUduaghan

Akpabio replaces Natasha as diaspora committee chair Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the senator representing Kogi central, has been removed as chairman of the senate committee on diaspora and NGOs. The Senate named Senator Aniekan Bassey as the new Chairman of the Committee on Diaspora and Non-Governmental Organisations. Senate President Godswill Akpabio made the announcement during plenary on Thursday, thus confirming Bassey’s replacement of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who is currently on suspension Akpabio named Aniekan Bassey, who represents Akwa Ibom north-east, as the new chairman of the diaspora and NGOs committee. Bassey is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). “The new…

Jul

2025

By Famous Reporters

You’ve separatist’s intentions, FG Blasts Peter Obi over comment on Nnamdi Kanu

NATIONAL NEWS#BiafraAgitation, #DrPeterObi, #Extradition, #ipob, #MaziNnamdiKanu, #Saparatiist

You've separatist's intentions, FG Blasts Peter Obi over comment on Nnamdi Kanu The federal government of Nigeria under President Bola Tinubu has criticised Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, over his recent call for the release of IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, had queried the reason for the prolonged detention of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), saying there is no justification his arrest and extradition. Reacting, a source in the Presidency, who spoke anonymously to The Punch, accused Obi of harboring “separatist tendencies” and supporting…

Jul

2025

By Famous Reporters

AIG Fayoade holds refresher training for Zone 2 Police Officers on use of force

NATIONAL NEWS#Force, #IGPKayodeAdeoluEgbetokun, #NigeriaPolice

AIG Fayoade holds refresher training for Zone 2 Police Officers on use of force The Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG in charge of Zone 2 Police Command, AIG Adegoke M. Fayoade today organized an intensive refresher training for officers in the Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Onikan. This is to enable them be at the cutting edge as it concerns the Use of Force in the Discharge of Statutory Police Duties, National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP can report. The session was facilitated by AIG Adeoye Adeniran Oluwafimihan (retd). It was held at the M.D. Abubakar Conference Hall,…

Jul

2025

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Breaking: Head rolls, blood spills, as wrongly parked Imo govt waste truck chops off Bus driver’s head

METRO#death, #Driversnegligence, #Ghastlyautocrash, #ImoStateWasteManagementAgency, #okrotraders, #wrongparking

Breaking: Head rolls, blood spills, as wrongly parked Imo govt waste truck chops off Bus driver's head The yet to be identified driver of the bus rammed into the wrongly parked Imo govt truck, leading to his untimely death. Pandemonium broke out across all nooks and crannies of Irete in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, yesterday, as a bus conveying market women rammed into a Waste Disposal Truck, said to be owned by the government of Imo State. The Waste Disposal Truck which had the inscription 'Imo State Waste Management Agency ',was said to be parked by…

Jul

2025

By Famous Reporters

Disrupting The Old Order: The New Model Of Governance In Nigeria Pioneered By Governor Peter Ndubuisi Mbah.

NEWS, POLITICS

In less than three years in office, Governor Peter Ndubuisi Mbah has emerged as one of Nigeria’s most visionary and results-oriented State leaders. Through a blend of innovation, technology, fiscal discipline, and bold reforms, Mbah is steadily transforming Enugu State from a once “civil service economy” into a thriving hub of productivity, smart economy driven by technology, and inclusive growth. His leadership style which is rooted in measurable goals, performance-driven governance, and technological disruption of the status quo has redefined what it means to govern in the 21st century. A Governor with a Vision and a Plan From the onset,…

Jul

2025

By Famous Reporters

Buhari brought 12.5m votes to merger — parties added only N3m in 2015, says Boss Mustapha

POLITICS#BossMustapha, #GarbaShehu’sbook, #presidentMohammaduBuhari

Buhari brought 12.5m votes to merger — parties added only N3m in 2015, saysBoss Mustapha A former secretary to the federal government (SGF), Boss Mustapha has asserted that the three opposition parties—Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP)—which were part of the merger that formed the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2013, contributed only three million votes to the 15.4 million secured by former President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 elections. Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday at the launch of Garba Shehu’s book, ‘According to the President: Lessons From A Presidential…