MTN hits 78m subscribers in 2024 Q1, 1.3% up

Telecom giant, MTN Nigeria says its total subscribers increased by 1.3 per cent to 77.7 million, as at March 31, 2024, from 76.7 million recorded in the same period of 2023. MTN Nigeria’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Karl Toriola, said this in the company’s unaudited financial statement sent to the Nigerian Exchange Ltd.(NGX) in Lagos.…

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PDP candidate accuses tribunal of bias in Ebonyi bye-election

Silas Ọnụ, Esq. the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the February 3, 2024, Ebonyi South Senatorial bye-election, has accused the Election Petition Tribunal judges hearing his petition of bias. Onu made the accusations in a petition to the President of the Court of Appeal dated 29th April, 2024, wherein he demanded the disbandment of…

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Show of shame as senators fight over seats in newly renovated chamber

It was a rowdy session at the resumption of the Senate to plenary on Tuesday with senators fighting over seats. The plenary had started around 11 am and immediately after the procession, the Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, read out announcements, specifically the names of the lawmakers who had celebrated their birthdays while the Senate…

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NNPC & Port Harcourt Refinery: This lack of accountability in the public sector is frustrating, deeply disappointing — Joy Ezeilo, SAN

The number of illegal refineries continually being destroyed by Nigerian military in the Niger Delta is a testimony that Nigeria can refine crude oil in the most inexpensive way and save citizens the unending torture of fuel shortage and the crisis associated with it. It is a known fact that the during the civil…

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Fact Check: Trending video alleging Somalia’s president in fisticuffs with deputy is false

By Olayinka Shehu A trending video posted on microblogging site, Twitter by Nana Kwame Ahoufe, a Ghanaian Television presenter that the president of Somalia and his vice-president are engaged in fisticuffs is false. Nana’s, twitter profile states that he is a TV Director & TV Presenter at Citi TV, a privately owned multi-platform network based in Adabraka,…

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Yahaya Bello: Sack EFCC Chair now, LPDC should charge lawyers advising EFCC for infamous conduct, disbar them as a deterrent

By Nkereuwem Udofia Akpan I've watched with dismay the way and manner lawyers for the EFCC have carried themselves as if they're above the law in the ongoing tussle between the EFCC and ex governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. When a court of law has made an order, whether good or bad ,…

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Jealous man gets life after murdering wife he wrongly thought was cheating

Fifty-year-old Rajveer Mahey will have enough time in jail relieving how he repeatedly stabbed his 45-year-old wife, Kamaljeet Mahey in their garage in Stowlawn, West Midlands, UK leaving her with catastrophic wounds to her neck and body. Kamaljeet received a total of 28 ‘sharp force injuries’ in the attack, which happened at around 4.35am…

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Debe Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s children appeal Enugu High Court judgment in favour of Bianca

The children of Debe Odumegwu-Ojukwu have filed an appeal against the judgment of the Enugu High Court which held that their father Debe Ojukwu was not recognised by Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu as his biological son in his lifetime. Nene Grace Odumegwu-Ojukwu and Obianuju Sarah Odumegwu-Ojukwu in notice of appeal filed by their counsel Ikeazor…

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Umahi gets presidential nod on Sokoto-Badagry Coastal Highway design

Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, said on Sunday that he had been given a presidential directive on the immediate design of the Sokoto-Badagry Coastal Highway. Umahi spoke after he inspected the end of Section one, phase one, of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and its realignment in Lagos. “I’m happy that Mr President has also…

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NAPTIP Blows Hot: Try female circumcision and spend four years in jail

As the war against female genital mutilation (FGM) continues, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has warned that FGM is a crime, that attracts four years jail term. The agency made this known in a post it shared on its official X handle (Formerly Twitter) @naptipnigeria on Sunday. A member…

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