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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Akwa Ibom on Saturday said it seized 150 smuggled drums of petrol and arrested two suspects on March 9. The NSCDC Commandant in Akwa Ibom, Mr Yusuf Imam, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Uyo on Saturday. Imam said the Marine Unit of the command acted on intelligence and arrested the suspects on the high seas as they conveyed the products in a wooden boat en route to Cameroon. He added that the operatives also seized five engines and one pumping machine used to steal petroleum products. “The Marine Unit of…

Joe Igbokwe, Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on drainages has predicted that President-elect, Bola Tinubu will rule Nigeria till 2031 and subsequently hand over to a northerner. Igbokwe said this in response to a comment on a post he had made on Facebook. Igbokwe had made a post on his official page, justifying that Igbos residing in Lagos should support the re-election of the governor who is seeking his second term. According to him, the president-elect and former governor of the state had backed well-known Igbo businessmen in Lagos, saying that supporting Sanwo-Olu would be a way for them…

United States regulators pulled the plug on Silicon Valley Bank on Friday in a spectacular move that sent global banking shares sputtering, as markets fretted over possible contagion from America’s biggest banking failure since the 2008 financial crisis. US authorities swooped in and seized the assets of SVB, a key lender to US startups since the 1980s, after a run on deposits made it no longer tenable for the medium-sized bank to stay afloat on its own. Little known to the general public, SVB specialized in financing start-ups and had become the 16th largest US bank by assets: at the…

Popular Nigerian singer, Michael Adebayo popularly known as Ruger has unveiled the title of his debut album. Taking to his Instagram story on Friday, the fast-rising singer announced the title of the album as ‘Ru The World’. “No long talk Album title RTW: (RU THE WORLD)🌍💿,” he wrote. While Ruger didn’t tell when the album will be released, he shared a snippet of a new single likely to be his next release. Ruger whose single Asiwaju was a major hit at the twilight of the year, has two extended plays (EPs) to his name. ‘Pandemic’ was released in 2021 while…

The Police in Lagos has said the driver of the government staff bus that collided with a moving train at Shogunle, Ikeja area of the state on Thursday, Oluwaseun Osinbajo, has been arrested and will be prosecuted soon. The ill-fated bus with Lagos number plates 04A- 48LA, number 33, was heading to Alausa, Ikeja, from Isolo. While trying to beat other motorists at the PWD rail crossing, it collided with an oncoming train. It was carrying several passengers, mostly civil servants and some dependents. Meanwhile, there was low a turnout of civil servants at the Lagos State Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja,…

A pressure group, “Yoruba Commitment Leaders” has called on indigenes of Lagos to unite and defend the former nation’s capital, from those it described as “intruders”. The group warned anyone or group of people who may be toying with the idea of changing the demography in Yoruba land, including Lagos, to forget the suicidal thoughts once and for all. Speaking at a press conference in Sagamu, Ogun State, the leader of the group, Michael Adesanya, called on youths in Lagos to rise up to defend and preserve their inheritance, which is Lagos. The address tagged, “Stop The Expensive Joke Going…

In 2018, 41-year-old Oluwaseyi Samuel had a thriving confectionery business in the Ijora-Badia area of Lagos State until he was persuaded by a neighbour to employ his teenage daughter. Unaware that the young girl was a ‘missing person’ and unrelated to his neighbour, Samuel offered her employment as a salesgirl.Two months later, Samuel found himself in prison after Police invaded his home and arrested him for alleged abduction, human trafficking, and defilement. In this edition, Samuel who eventually became a Pastor while in prison, narrates how his kind gesture and refusal to heed Police’s demand for a bribe made him…

The widespread rejection of the old N500 and N1,000 which persisted yesterday was worsened by banks’ refusal to accept deposits of the notes without registration on the Cash Return Portal, CRP of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Following the February 10th CBN deadline for the old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes, the CBN established the CRP for bank customers to register old notes intended for deposit. After registration, the depositor gets a reference code. The reference code must be submitted to the bank before the deposit is accepted by the customer.Switch Nigeria investigations reveal that banks cannot accept deposits…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said it had not received the Certified True Copy, CTC, of the judgment of a federal high court mandating it to allow registered voters with Temporary Voter’s Cards, TVCs, to participate in the March 18 governorship and state assemblies elections. “I am yet to see a Certified True Copy of the court order and, as such, I cannot comment on it,” said Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi. Justice Obiora Eguatu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on Thursday ruled in a case brought before him by…

The Managing Director, of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, on Thursday, gave an account of the brief he got on the accident involving a train and a bus earlier in the day.The NRC train was involved in an accident with a Lagos State Government staff bus on the rail track in the Sogunle area of Lagos. Two bodies have so far been recovered from the scene, while several others are injured, according to the National Emergency Management Agency.Okhiria told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos: “According to the information I gathered at the scene of the incident,…