NSCDC arrests 14 vandals in FCT

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, has arrested 14 suspected vandals and scavengers, to curb vandalism of street and traffic lights, as well as manholes in Abuja. The suspects include Muhammed Isa, 18, from Kano, Elvis Obingwa,45, from Abia, Eze Godwin, 39, fromEnugu, Basiru Abubakar, 23, from …

Venezuelan President Maduro to visit China

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will visit China from Friday, the foreign ministry in Beijing said, as the oil-rich socialist country seeks to shore up its ailing finances. China is Venezuela’s main creditor and has close relations with the internationally isolated nation, whose GDP…

Police arrest 10 suspects over death of FUOYE missing student

The police in Ekiti State have arrested 10 suspects over the death of Modupe Deborah Atanda, a 200- level Nursing student of Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE). Atanda was earlier reported missing but later found dead. Her lifeless body was discovered in a shallow grave a few metres to the school. Confirming the…

Atiku, Obi: why we are challenging tribunal verdict

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, yesterday explained why they rejected the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court, which upheld the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Atiku described the judgment as bereft of…

19 kidnapped, 30 killed in Abuja landslide

19 persons were on Thursday, kidnapped in the Bwari Area Council of Abuja, while no fewer than 30 persons were reported to have died in a landslide caused by activities of illegal miners in the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory.…

Biden bars drilling over vast swath of Alaska

US President Joe Biden speaks about strengthening US ports and supply chains after the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association finalized a new contract covering west coast ports, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington,…