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Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Adamawa State following the vilence that broke out in many parts of the state. PLATFORM TIMES reports that there were   escalating attacks of hoodlums who were  breaking into warehouses and carting away foodstuffs and other valuables. The governor announced the decision on Sunday. Fintiri on his verified Twitter handle said the government took the action as a precaution to prevent the escalating violence by hoodlums attacking people and businesses. Angry residnets had in 2020  looted a government-owned warehouse at Kwana-waya. The angry residents also  later broke…

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed travel bans on military officers involved in attempted coup in Niger republic. The body has also imposed a no flight zone on Niger following the coup that toppled the elected government of Mohamed Bazoum. The decision was reached at an extraordinary session of the ECOWAS authority of heads of state and government at the Nigerian State House, Abuja on Sunday. ECOWAS chairman, President Bola Tinubu had conveyed the emergency meeting after the coup in Niger Republic. The body warned Niger junta that it would be held responsible for the safety…

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has “ordered the disclosure of the spending details of over N200bn public funds collected by the government of former Delta State governor Ifeanyi Okowa from the Universal Basic Education Commission [UBEC] fund and allocations from the Federation Accounts.” The court ordered the Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to “disclose details of budgetary allocations and actual spending by the Okowa government between 2015 and 2019, including specific projects carried out to improve primary education in Delta State, and the locations of such projects. The judgment was delivered by Honourable Justice Daniel Osiagor, following a…

A Non Governmental Organization, Step Up Nigeria has said it will be using Artificial intelligence (AI) to supports its fight against corruption. This is just as various stakeholders are calling for the inclusion of Anti-corruption education in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools. The founder of Step Up Nigeria, Onyinye Ough revealed the intentions of the organization while speaking at the fifth anniversary on Thursday in Abuja. Step Up Nigeria has been building bridges between government and citizens to combat corruption and improve service delivery in Nigeria since 2018. It has educated about 50,000 children, youth, parents, teachers,…

Nigerian Breweries Plc has announced the payment of tax of N47 billion and raked in revenue of N277 billion for the half year ended June 30, 2023. The company made the disclosure in an unaudited and provisional results for the period signed by its Secretary, Mr Uaboi Agbebaku, on Saturday in Lagos. The revenue was higher when compared with N274.03 billion posted in the first half of 2022. Agbebaku said the half-year results were majorly impacted by the devaluation of the naira which led to revaluation of foreign exchange obligations and higher input costs. Other factors,…

The 24 passengers including the driver  of the Peace Mass Transit bus abducted on Wednesday while transiting through Kogi state have been rescued. PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the passengers, who were coming from Abuja and heading for Enugu, were reportedly  abducted at gunpoint at Ogugu in Olamaboro Local Government Area of the state and taken into the forest. PLATFORM TIMES further gathered that a middle-aged nursing mother with her baby reportedly  left by the bandits  while the other 24 passengers, including the driver, were whisked away.  The video of the ugly incident with the white coloured Peace…

Federal government says it has raked in $85.1million equivalent to over 44 billion  from petroleum firms operating in the country through penalties from January till date . The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, said it  raked in $85.1 million  as gas flare fines from petroleum firms operating in the country.  The Commission said the quantum of gas flared is determined by sophisticated tracking and measurement devices available to it and not just relying on data supplied by the operating companies whose equipment and procedures may not measure actual gas flare for the purpose of accounting and fines. …

The national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has expelled two of its ex-officials in Abia State over alleged anti-union activities. The national secretary of the union, Isah Gambo, disclosed this in a letter dated July 21, 2023. Gambo said  the two expelled members are former deputy state president Kenneth Nwasuka, and  former state publicity secretary, Uko Ikechukwu. The NULGE national secretary had in a recent letter addressed to Governor Alex Otti on the alleged leadership crisis in its Abia Chapter, informed the governor there was no crisis in the union in Abia,…

The President of the Senate, Godswill Obot Akpabio, has raised the alarm over the presence of hoodlums who reportedly rob lawmakers at the National Assembly complex. Akpabio added that as the 10th NASS settles down for legislative activities, hoodlums and people that do not have any business in the National Assembly Complex besiege the Senate and House of Representative wings to either beg for alms or rob lawmakers of their valuables. Akpabio said this when he received in audience members of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC), who paid a courtesy call on him at the NASS complex, in Abuja.…

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has shut down a fake fertilizer site and arrested the producer of the product, Ibrahim Ahmed, at Chinade in Katagum Local Government of Bauchi State. PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the organisation also confiscated more than 150 bags of counterfeited fertilizers that were produced. The North-East Zonal Coordinator, Adamu Abba, while parading the suspect in Bauchi, said the suspect was arrested by the Organisation’s operation team on market day in the town. Abba said the alleged producer was caught in the process of bagging four different fertilizer brands, Mai Rago, Freedom, Boko…