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The Nigerian Navy has rescued eight female victims of human trafficking in the country. Director of Naval Information, Commodore Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the victims were rescued between Saturday and Tuesday. He said officers also rescued two drowned fishermen and arrested eight stowaways in Nigerian waters. According to Adams-Aliu, the feat …

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the Ministry of Finance (MOFI) identify how President Bola Tinubu can achieve his $1 trillion economic projection. They identified corporate governance in public and private institutions as a catalyst for achieving this goal. Therefore, the FRC and MOFI launched a draft corporate governance code for the public sector that provides rules on how board …

The three tiers of government on Tuesday shared the revenue allocation of N1.35 trillion for June. The figure is N150 million higher than the N1.2 trillion distributed by the federal, state and local governments in May. Director of Information and Public Relations in the Ministry of Finance, Mohammed Manga, who disclosed this in a communique issued at the end of …

At least 14 people were killed and four others injured in a horrific car accident along the Kano-Kanya road in Babura local government area of ​​Jigawa State on Tuesday. State police spokesman DSP Lawan Shiisu confirmed the accident in a statement on Tuesday in Dutse. Shiisu said a truck and a bus were involved in the accident that occurred in …

  Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has said chop owners at Oba Lipede International Market, Kuto, Abeokuta, who lost valuables during Saturday night’s inferno, will receive support from the state government. Governor Abiodun made the assurance when he visited the market to ascertain the level of destruction caused by the fire. He said that censuses will be carried out …

Cryptocurrency platform Binance’s executive director Tigran Gambaryan arrived at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in a wheelchair for his trial on money laundering charges on Tuesday. Gambaryan, who was first arrested on February 26, has spent 141 days in a correctional centre in Abuja. As prison officers pushed Gambaryan in, he stood up from his wheelchair and walked slowly toward …

Nigeria is conspicuously absent from the 2024 ITTF African Youth Championships, currently underway in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. Despite being one of the leading African teams, Nigeria did not participate in this prestigious event. In the 2023 edition held in Agadir, Morocco, the Nigerian contingent managed to compete thanks to the support of Friends of Table Tennis who funded …

At least four people were killed and several others injured in a shootout near a mosque in Oman on Tuesday. The attack took place early in the morning in Wadi al-Kabir, a district east of the capital, Muscat, as Shiite Muslims were performing religious rituals. Police said in a statement on the X platform that security forces took necessary measures …

Ekene Abubakar Adams, a member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, died on Tuesday morning at the age of 39. The cause of death was reportedly due to a recent illness, according to a statement from the House speaker Akin Rotimi Jr. Adams, who represented the Chikun/Kajuru federal constituency in Kaduna State, served on the House of Representatives Sports Committee. …

The internet went wild after it emerged that the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Special Needs and Equal Opportunities, Mohammed Abba Isa, had appointed Alhaji Umar Bush, a Hausa showman known for his ‘anger’ and hurling insults at others, as his own Special Assistant. According to the appointment letter from the SSA to Bush, also known as ‘Angry Bird’, he …