Day: February 23, 2023

BREAKING: Simon Ekpa Released After Hours Of Questioning

Abibat Babalola

Finnish police released Nigerian Biafra separatist leader Simon Ekpa on Thursday, hours after he was arrested and questioned, according to the Finnish news outlet Helsingin Sanoma(HS). Authorities had earlier arrested Mr. Ekpa in Lahti, Finland. According to HS, Ekpa’s release was confirmed by the Finnish Central Criminal Police on Thursday. READ ALSO: How I Made It – Lady Who Bags BSc With 5.0CGPA, Scholarship Till Ph.D HISTORIC: First Commercial Flight Lands In Ogun Gateway Int’l Airport Buhari performs Groundbreaking of Oloibiri Museum, as Industry stakeholders power project Alleged N3bn Fraud:…

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How I Made It – Lady Who Bags BSc With 5.0CGPA, Scholarship Till Ph.D

Abibat Babalola

A brilliant Nigerian lady identified as Precious Okon has emerged as the best graduating student of Nile University Abuja and won a 100 per cent scholarship to study up to PhD level. Precious graduated from Petroleum and Gas Engineering with a perfect Cumulative Grade Point Average(CGPA) of 5.0/5.0. Narrating her experience at Nile University to The Punch Precious revealed that “I would say it was interesting and expository. I got to meet several people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. It was a new experience for me. It would be…

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HISTORIC: First Commercial Flight Lands In Ogun Gateway Int’l Airport

Gbenga Adeoti

How Valuejet airline test flight made its official landing into the Gateway Int’l Agro-Cargo Airport at Iperu-Ilishan Road at 2:15pm   History was on Thursday made as the first commercial test flight made its official landing into the Ogun State Gateway International Agro-Cargo Airport at Iperu-Ilishan Road, Ikene local government, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, Platforms Africa reports. The first private aircraft landed at 2.15 pm to the excitement of the Ogun people who had earlier trooped to the airport to witness the occasion. The peak of the day was the…

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Benue Varsity Student Declared Missing Found Dead

Ganiyu Amodu

A 300-level student of Benue State University (BSU), Erekaa Naomi Dooshima, has been found dead few days after she was declared missing. On Tuesday, Ukan Kurugh, the Benue activist, raised the alarm over the whereabouts of the student. In a post on his verified Facebook page, Kurugh said her identity card, phone, and blood-stained clothes were found in Markudi, the state capital. “Missing person: A girl by name is Erekaa Naomi Dooshima with her Facebook user name “Affection Erikz” is missing, her clothes stained with blood, her phone, identity card…

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Enugu East Senatorial Candidate Assassinated 72 Hrs To Election

Precious Ibekwe

Labour Party chairman gives blow-by-blow account of how the gunmen struck, killed and burnt corpse of the politician   The Labour Party (LP), Enugu State chapter, has confirmed the gruesome murder of Oyibo Chukwu, the Senatorial candidate of the party for Enugu East Senatirial district. Mr Casmir Agbo, State Chairman of the party, confirmed this on Thursday in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu. “It’s true my brother. Just yesterday evening. It’s a terrible situation,” he said. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Biafra Separatist Leader, Simon…

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BREAKING: Biafra Separatist Leader, Simon Ekpa, Arrested

Precious Ibekwe

How threats of no elections in Nigeria landed Ekpa in trouble in Finland   The Finnish Police has arrested Biafra Separatist Leader, Simon Ekpa over his threats of no elections in Nigeria. Ekpa has threatened that any person in the South-Eastern Part of the Nigeria that tries to participate or vote in the 2023 General Elections scheduled to hold on Saturday Feb. 25th will be ruthlessly dealt with. READ ALSO: Minister, NUPRC Boss Divided Over Nigeria’s Oil Revenue Losses Kanu Released Not Acquitted, Nigerian Govt On Court Order About IPOB…

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Minister, NUPRC Boss Divided Over Nigeria’s Oil Revenue Losses

ADEOLA YUSUF

… Theft, pipeline vandalism responsible for volumes of crude oil losses – Sylva … No, metering error is responsible for Nigeria’s huge oil revenue losses – Komolafe   Nigeria’s minister of state for petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, and chief executive of the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Gbenga Komolafe, have sharply divided over major factor responsible for crude losses in the country. Komolafe in a document presented at one of major industry events in Nigeria said that measurement inaccuracies is a major factor for huge looses suffered by Nigeria in…

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