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  The Nigerian Navy says it apprehended no fewer than 215 suspected oil thieves and 26 vessels in 2024.   It also said that 468 illegal refinery sites were deactivated within the period under the auspices of Operation Delta Sanity.   The Chief of Policy and Plans (Navy), Rear Adm. ...

  On Monday, the Nigerian Bar Association said it would establish an anti-corruption committee in each of its 130 branches to address corruption-related issues.   The Chairman, NBA National Anti-Corruption Committee, Prof. Babafemi Badejo, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. ...

  Shaudo Alku, a close associate of the notorious terrorist kingpin, Bello Turji, has been confirmed killed in a targeted airstrike.   The operation, carried out by the Air Component of Operation Fasan Yama, struck a terrorist hideout near Tunfa Primary School in Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State ...

  The Alternative Bank is set to redefine the rewards space in Nigerian banking, as it launched a new campaign that allows users to earn real Gold simply by transacting through its innovative digital banking platform, Altbank. The campaign, tagged Altbank Gold Rewards, will run until the end of 2025 ...

  One of the construction workers trapped under the rubble of the collapsed building at Idi Araba in the Mushin area of Lagos State has been recovered dead.   The one-storey building, which was under construction, came down around 3:30pm on Sunday.   The coordinator of the National Emergency Management ...

  The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria has said that its members can only buy Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) from the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, as the refineries owned by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited cannot optimally produce premium motor spirit but naphtha.   DAPPMAN’s Executive Secretary, ...

  The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Yu Dunhai, has harped on the imperative of enhanced collaboration between China and Nigeria in unlocking the potential of Nigeria’s Solid Minerals sector through the establishment of electric vehicle factories in Nigeria.   Dunhai disclosed this while paying a courtesy visit to the Minister ...

  The Federal Government has said that 33 states and the Federal Capital Territory, have reduced their debt profiles, having repaid about N1.85trn in domestic debt between June 2023 and December 2024.   This was contained in The Explainer magazine, a weekly publication of the National Orientation Agency, dated May ...

  Some residents have lamented the rapidly expanding gully erosion threatening to engulf a primary health centre under renovation in Bayan Dutse, a riverine community in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.   Its current state has raised fear among residents who depend on the facility for essential ...

  Ahead of the 2027 elections, elders of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the Northern Senatorial District of Nasarawa State, have appealed to a former Deputy Governor of the state, Silas Agara, to join the governorship race.   The elders, under the aegis of APC Elders Forum, made the ...