Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, turned down the bail application filed by the detained former Commander of the Intelligence Response Team, Force Intelligence Bureau of the Nigeria Police Force, Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. Kyari is in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency over…
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives, an agency of the Federal Government, on Monday, blamed the over three-week scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, on the continued subsidy on PMS. It explained that the solution to the country’s prolonged fuel crisis was to halt the subsidy regime as canvassed by stakeholders including the…
Russia has now committed around three-quarters of the troops it had massed on Ukraine’s border. Its air and artillery strikes have until now been limited. Western officials say that Russia has still to destroy Ukraine’s air defences and gain supremacy in the air. They also believe that Russia’s invasion is not going according to plan…
Isaac, a Nigerian man trying to get into Poland, said border staff told him they were “not tending to Africans”. “We’ve been chased back, we’ve been hit with police armed with sticks,” he told the BBC. South African foreign office official Clayson Monyela also said students had been “badly treated” at the border. There have…
Missile strikes killed dozens of civilians in the country’s second city, Kharkiv, while air raid sirens sounded again in the capital, Kyiv. There were reports of fierce shelling in the northern city of Chernihiv. Russia is attacking Ukraine on several fronts, but its advance has been slowed by Ukrainian resistance. All three cities remain under…
The IOC says it is urging sport governing bodies to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes “in order to protect the integrity of global sports competitions and for the safety of all the participants”, adding that “the current war in Ukraine puts the Olympic Movement in a dilemma”. It said there had been a “breach of…
Russian football clubs and national teams have been suspended from all competitions by Fifa and Uefa after the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The world and European football governing bodies said they would be banned “until further notice”. It means the Russian men’s team will not play their World Cup play-off matches next month and the…
International energy giant BP has opted to leave Russia after Western countries imposed severe sanctions on its companies and individuals following Moscow’s military attack on Ukraine. BP, the biggest foreign investor in Russia, said it was abandoning its stake in the state oil company Rosneft at a cost of up to $25bn, shrinking its oil…
Former Chairman of Egor Local Government Council, Hon. Crosby Eribo has declared his intention to contest for House of Representative in Egor-Ikpoba Okha Federal constituency, Chris Osa Media reports Hon Eribo was elected to represent the people of Egor constituency in the House of Assembly but was denied inauguration alongside 13 others He officially declared…
