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President Bola Tinubu is expected to meet with the leadership of Nigeria’s power-generating companies as part of an emergency effort to address the N4tn debt threatening to cripple the country’s electricity supply chain.The move follows a high-level meeting on Tuesday between the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, and chairmen of GenCos in Abuja, amid mounting fears of a possible collapse of the national grid d...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have seized drugs with a street value of ₦3.428 billion in Lagos and Rivers states.NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, said the drugs include 3.5 million pills of opioids and 163,000 bottles of codeine syrups.According to him, the codeine syrups were intercepted by NDLEA and customs officers on April 29 during a joint examination ...

Former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has denied reports claiming he is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), following an ongoing investigation into the alleged misappropriation of $2.9 billion allocated for refinery rehabilitation.In a statement posted via his X account (formerly Twitter), Kyari dismissed the reports as...

By Israel Adebiyi The Edo State Police Command has arrested 95 suspected cultists and seized several firearms in a major crackdown on cultism across Benin City and its environs, as concerns mount over a recent wave of deadly clashes....

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By Israel Adebiyi Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has launched a crackdown on crime-related properties, beginning with the demolition of bui...

Israel Adebiyi The Chairman of the Edo State Sports Commission, Honourable Dr. Desmond Enabulele, has reaffirmed the Commission’s strong commitment ...