The Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) has arrested an alleged Russian spy near the border with Ukraine. The suspect, a Spanish citizen with a Russian background, purportedly worked for the Russian intelligence agency GRU. The ABW said on Friday that the suspect was arrested in the night of Feb. 28, in Przemysl, near the Polish-Ukrainian […]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reportedly survived three assassination attempted from Russians assasins in the last week, new report claims. According to The Times, mercenaries from Wagner group, who are sponsored by the Russian government and Chechen special forces were both sent to kill the Ukrainian president since Russia’s invasion began last week. But the
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A policeman simply identified as Sergeant Bello has shot and murdered at least six of his colleagues in Maiduguri, Borno State. POLITICS NIGERIA learnt that the incident happened recently in the police college quarters of Borno Police headquarters in Maiduguri. This newspaper learnt that the errant officer is currently being detained at the State Criminal
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Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a customer, identified only as Blessing for allegedly bathing a Point-of-Sale operator, Bisola Kolawole, with hot soup in the Ikorodu area of the state. Blessing was said to have visited Kolawole’s shop on Igboolomu Road, Isawo-Agric, to buy N1,500 data. After payment, she could not, however,
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Christiana Owomoyela, mother of music legend, late Oladipupo Owomoyela, commonly called Dr Orlando Owoh, is dead. POLITICS NIGERIA learnt that according to a family source, the deceased passed away on Thursday aged 112 years. She breathed her last at her hometown, Owo, the headquarters of Owo Local Government Area (LGA) of Ondo State, southwest Nigeria
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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu has alleged that the party won the 2019 presidential election in Nigeria. He however added that the PDP was cheated and denied the victory which was eventually given to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ayu made the claim in Abuja on Thursday when he
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Former President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki has listed four things the All Progressives Congress, APC government led by President Muhammadu Buhari has done wrong since 2015. Naija News recalls that Buhari emerged Nigerian President in 2015 after defeating former President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Goodluck Jonathan. Speaking, however, on
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One Mohd Zakar has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for fingering a 9-year-old girl in Hadejia town. Zakar was sentenced by a Jigawa State High Court, sitting at Hadejia, on Thursday. The prosecution counsel narrated that the defendant, who is from Magama Quarters in Hadejia Town of Hadejia Local Government, was arraigned in July
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As fuel scarcity across Nigeria continues, mishaps in different parts of the country have been recorded. In a recent case, an illegal petrol marketer and his wife in Jos lost their lives during a fire incident that was reportedly caused by the fuel scarcity. The couple was killed on Thursday when fire erupted from the
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The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has criticised the zero remittance of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to the federation account in recent months. This was made known by the chairman of NGF and Ekiti state governor, Kayode Fayemi at the governors’ forum on natural energy, oil and gas at the fifth Nigeria International Energy
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has failed to deliver on its promise to make life easier for Nigerians. According to the opposition party, the current petrol scarcity and “widespread uncertainties” show that the country is on auto-pilot. In a statement issued on Thursday, Debo Ologunagba, PDP’s spokesperson, said the
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Amid speculations that Shell Petroleum Development Company and Exxon Mobil will exit the Nigerian market, the Ministry of Interior Affairs has said that they are not leaving the country anytime soon. A statement on Thursday evening by the ministry, obtained by POLITICS NIGERIA quoted the Vice President, Human Resources, Shell, Olukayode Ogunleye, as giving the
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Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has told his followers to “remain upbeat” about his freedom and the quest for a sovereign nation of Biafra. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Kanu’s IPOB is pressing for the secession of the Igbo ethnic group’s homeland, which covers part of southeast Nigeria. The
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A former Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, has written current AGF, Mr. Abubakar Malami, absolving himself of any complicity in a case by the Federal Government against American Bank, JP Morgan Chase. In a letter written by his lawyers, Paul Erekoro, SAN, among others, Adoke noted that the
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Each Ukraine returnee of Nigerian descent will get $100 (around N41,679) from the Federal Government on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport, Abuja. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that a Max Air charter flight evacuated Nigerians fleeing Ukraine from Poland on Friday morning. About 2,000 Nigerians have fled Ukraine, amid a Russian invasion, to neigbouring countries,
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The first batch of Nigerians who fled war-ravaged Ukraine have arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at 7:10am on Friday. POLITICS NIGERIA recalls that Nigeria’s foreign affairs ministry had on Wednesday announced that it expects to receive the first batch of evacuees from Ukraine today. According to the foreign ministry’s statement, over 2,000
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has stated that despite achieving democracy, Nigeria is still unstable and needs serious change. This was stated on Thursday by Tinubu during a consultation with members of the Ekiti traditional council in Ado-Ekiti. Tinubu said he is in the 2023 presidential race to bring hope
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A phone snatcher, Kinghope Ubi, has been arrested by the security operatives of the University of Calabar, UNICAL, for using a dummy gun to threaten students and snatching their phones. Ubi was arrested at the ICT Centre of the institution on Thursday March 3, after leading his two friends to point the dummy gun at
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A driver and another person got injured on Thursday after a trailer rammed into the Central Bank of Nigeria building in Jos, Plateau State. According to PUNCH, an eyewitness said the trailer, loaded with fertilizer, was heading towards the road leading to the CBN when it lost control at a roundabout in front of the
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A Senior Federal Road Safety Commission FRSC Corps, Marshall, Abdulkareem Ojonla Jimoh and a traffic offender have been killed by a commercial bus driver at Ajebandele along Akure/ Benin highway in Ondo State. Jimoh, who was recently promoted and the traffic offender were both killed by a commercial bus driver who reportedly lost control of
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