The Intercept Nigeria

24/01/2024

BREAKING: Two Injured, As Police Speak On Abuja Explosion

... thereby causing injury to two of the refuse evacuator, who are currently receiving medical attention in Maitama General Hospital.

24/01/2024

How Public Complaint Commission Staff Locked Commissioner In Office Over Salary

Staff of the Public Complaints Commission, on Wednesday, locked the Chief Commissioner, Abimbola Ayo Yusuf, in the office during a protest over the non-payment of the Consolidated Legislative Salary approved by the National Assembly. The action of the PCC workers in Abuja was premised on their prote...

22/01/2024

16 Passengers Die In Zaria-Kano Highway Crash

Sixteen passengers traveling in a commercial bus have died in an accident at Taban Sani Junction, Tashar Yari, along the Zaria-Kano expressway in Kaduna State. The incident, which occurred yesterday around 11:20 am resulted in four injuries. The Kaduna Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Cor...

22/01/2024

Burna Boy To Perform At 66th Grammys

Nigerian Musician, Damini Ogulu, also known as Burna Boy, has been added to the 2024 Grammys’ performer line up. The Recording Academy announced the ‘African Giant’ singer, along with Luke Combs and Travis Scott on Monday morning. The Grammy organizers posted on official X handle, “Attention...

22/01/2024

DELTA: We Are Also Victims of Our Monarch’s Extortion – Igbodo Indigenes Lament

The last may not have been heard about allegations of extortion against the Obi of Igbodo Kingdom, HRM Obi Osedume, by his subjects as fresh allegations and outcries continue to emerge. This is following a new statement signed by Dr. Charles Ego, CPA, National President, IDU North America, Pastor Ma...

19/01/2024

Delta Agog As Supreme Court upholds Oborevwori’s victory, Dismisses Omo Agege’s Appeal

The Supreme Court has ruled against All Progressives Congress governorship candidate Ovie Omo-Agege following his appeal challenging the election of Peoples Democratic Party candidate Sheriff Oborevwori as the governor of Delta. The court gave its judgment on Friday. The apex court had previously re...

19/01/2024

Soludo Acting Like Dictator Against Traditional Rulers, Anambra Youths Allege

The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL) has accused Governor Charles Soludo of acting like a dictator against Anambra’s traditional rulers. The coalition’s president-general, Goodluck Ibem, said in a statement on Friday. The group called Mr Soludo’s treatment of Anambra’s traditio...

31/12/2023

Qatar-Based Businessman, Others To Spend New Year In Custody Over Drug Trafficking

Barely hours to the New Year, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a Qatar-based businessman, Agu Evidence Amobi, and one other, Uchegbu Onyebuchi Obi with consignments of psychoactive substances at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja La...

31/12/2023

Community Chief Accuses Delta Monarch of N530,000 Extortion

That I emphatically stated that extorting such an amount of money from targeted community members is not only disturbing but unacceptable.

31/12/2023

Outrage As 54-Year-Old Akpos Marries 4-Year-Old Girl in Bayelsa

The Bayelsa State Police Command has commenced an investigation into an unlawful marriage between an older man and a minor. It was gathered that a 54-year-old man, Elder Akpos, married a four-year-old in the Akeddei community This development has caused further outrage as a civil rights organisation...

31/12/2023

Plateau Massacre: How 9-Yr-Old Boy Was Manipulated Into Leading Attackers To Hideout

Revd Dr. Gideon Para-Mallam, President and CEO of the Para-Mallam Peace Foundation, has exposed the heart-wrenching manipulation of a nine-year-old boy, Regard Yusuf, resulting in the massacre in Chirang village, Plateau State, on Christmas Eve. According to an account provided by a survivor who nar...

27/12/2023

BREAKING: Ondo Governor, Akeredolu Is Dead

The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, is dead. A family source told SaharaReporters on Wednesday that Akeredolu died in Lagos. It was learnt that he was managed by State House doctors up to his death because they could not fly him abroad. “Akeredolu is dead; he died in Lagos,” the source sa...

23/12/2023

EFCC Deletes Controversial Social Media Post On Ex-Minister, Diezani

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has deleted an Instagram post quoting a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, as speaking on money laundering charges brought against her. The social media post earlier claimed that the former minister spoke in an interview with...

23/12/2023

RIVERS CRISIS: Group Drags Tinubu, Fubara, INEC To Court

No fewer than six elders in Rivers have dragged President Bola Tinubu and others to the Federal High Court, Abuja, for allegedly compelling Gov. Siminilaya Fubara to sign what they describe as an unconstitutional agreement. The plaintiffs, in the process sighted by the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN)....

23/12/2023

What Can Happen If Your Er****on Is Above 30 Minutes – Don Warns

Prof. Ademola Popoola of Department of Surgery, University of Ilorin (Unilorin), has warned that pe**le er****on after 30 minutes in sexual in*******se is purposeless, dangerous, and harmful to men. Popoola raised the alarm in Ilorin during his paper presentation at the 250th Inaugural Lecture of th...

23/12/2023

Emefiele Meets Bail Condition, Regains Freedom

Embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has regained his freedom after meeting his bail condition. Sources privy to the development that Emefiele was released from the Kuje Correctional Centre on Friday afternoon after meeting the conditions set by the Federal Capi...

18/12/2023

Abacha loot: Tinubu’s Minister Bagudu In Moves To block France From Repatriating $150m

Mr Bagudu has for years evaded accountability within the Nigerian legal system, ascending to the positions of senator and...

15/12/2023

Nigeria’s Investigative Journalist, Ejiro Umukoro, Bags USAGM Change Maker Award 2023

Ejiro Umukoro, a Delta State Born investigative journalist, has been recognised for her contributions to media and journalism with the International Change Makers Award presented by the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM). The Award was presented by Inna Dubinsky, the Development and Train...

06/09/2023

EU To Invest €6.5m In Niger Delta

“We’ve been investing in the region for a long time. We’re very much encouraged by the plans, vision and the leadership that...

07/08/2023

Group, NDDA Hails Festus Keyamo on Successful Ministerial Confirmation

According to the group, “Keyamo has a rich history of challenging the excesses and abuses of power by the government and its agencies.

07/08/2023

Niger Military Junta Awaits Action After Disobeying ECOWAS Order

Niger is waiting for a response from the West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, after coup leaders in Niamey ignored a deadline to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum – a move the bloc has warned could lead it to authorise a military intervention. ECOWAS said it would issue a statement on its n...

29/07/2023

Arewa Youths Hail Tinubu For Stella Okotete’s Ministerial Nomination

“As Executive Director of Business Development at the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), she initiated so many policies and programs...

29/07/2023

Court Sends Two Internet Fraudsters To Jail In Benin City

Justice M. Itsueli of Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State has convicted and sentenced Kelvin Ifeanyi Aneke and Leonard Emmanuel Osaretin to prison for fraud. They were arraigned on separate one count charges of unlawful possession of fraudulent documents by the Benin Zonal Command....

29/07/2023

OPINION: Poverty In Nigeria, Its Causes And Effects

By Obi Adaobi Maryvianney Poverty has been an endemic problem, and holds a strong grip on Nigeria and many other developing countries. This long-form article aims to shed light on the issue of poverty in Nigeria, its causes, and the far-reaching effects it has on the nation’s economy, education, h...

29/07/2023

Arewa Youths Hail Tinubu For Stella Okotete’s Ministerial Nomination

KADUNA – Group, Arewa Youths Alliance for Progress and Development says President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s nomination of Hon. Stella Okotete as Minister, shows his ‘eyes for talent’ and innate ability to hunt for the best brains to get the job done. The group also stated that the President’s de...

21/07/2023

IJaw Youth Council Gets New Exco, Raises Alarm Over Faction Moves

20/07/2023

Journalist David Hundeyin Detained In Zimbabwe

20/07/2023

Ganduje Tipped As APC National Chairman