The threat of more attacks against Kabul airport remains acute one day before the US military completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday. Kirby said the evacuation operation at the airport, currently controlled by thousands of US troops, is on high alert after the Islamic State-Khorasan…
Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service sealed the head offices and other branches of four banks in Kaduna on Monday over N300.5 million unpaid taxes. KADIRS Executive Chairman, Zaid Abubakar, identified the affected banks as First Bank, Access Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank and Sterling Bank. Abubakar told journalists after the exercise in Kaduna that the money…
Gov. Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger and Chairman North Central Governors Forum has described as tragic the killing of Capt. Abdulkarim Na’Allah by assailants. In a statement by Mrs Mary Noel-Berje, his Chief Press Secretary, Sani-Bello said the killing indicated the level of atrocity of activities gun men to people. The governor said that the killing…
The Police Command in Ogun said that two suspected kidnappers were killed in a shoot-out with its personnel around Itori area of Ewekoro of the state. The command`s Spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi made this known in a statement on Monday in Ota, Ogun. Oyeyemi said that the suspects met their waterloo after the police received information…
Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana and plunged New Orleans into darkness, killing at least one person. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm but weakened into a tropical storm on Monday. More than one million people in Louisiana and Mississippi were without power. President Joe Biden described…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has dismissed 10 staffers for publicizing an employee’s account of sexual assault allegations against a former manager, people familiar with the matter said, as the e-commerce giant moves to resolve a case that’s rocked China’s tech establishment. Alibaba announced internally last week it fired the group for sharing a harrowing account…
Several rockets have been fired at Kabul’s international airport, a day before the deadline for the US troops to pull out of Afghanistan ends. The White House, which confirmed the attack, said that evacuation operations at the airport were not interrupted, adding that US President Joe Biden was briefed about the latest rocket attack on…
The Police Command in Plateau has described as fake speculations that unidentified persons have killed 230 Igbos in Jos. ASP Ubah Ogaba, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, dismissed the report in statement on Sunday in Jos. The social media has been agog by reports that a luxurious bus conveying commuters of…
The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has described the death of Nigeria’s highlife music icon, Sir Victor Uwaifo, as a huge loss to the entertainment industry. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Lilian Salami, said in a statement on Sunday that Uwaifo would be missed by the university community. “He had an uncommon mastery of…
