Author: Chronicle Editor

The ongoing intra-party crisis in the All Progressives Congress is worrisome to the party leadership and members even as bigwigs in the party seek for reconciliation among aggrieved members ahead 2023 elections. In the build-up to the last general election, although the crisis was not as visible as it is presently, most of the causes of the crisis were somewhat identified but ignored prior to the last general elections, presenting an uneasy calm just for crisis-free elections. In an attempt to address the causes of the crisis after the elections, the APC Governors’ Forum called on the party’s National Chairman…

Gunmen have killed no fewer than 19 people in Tawari community in the Kogi Local Government Area of Kogi State, burning buildings, including the palace of the king of the community. The Public Relations Officer of the Kogi State Police Command, Mr Williams Anya, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Friday. He said that a police assessment team had visited the community and that many buildings, including places of worship had been burnt. Tawari community is a few kilometres off Gegu town along the Lokoja-Abuja highway. Taiwan’s top military general…

Some bank customers have frowned at their banks for not complying with the new CBN guidelines for charges on Automated Teller Machine (ATM), released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Some of the customers who spoke to NAN in Abuja, regretted that banks had now devised a means of deducting ATM charges without sending the alert to their customers. NAN reports that CBN had on Dec. 22, 2019, released new guidelines for banks, other financial and non-bank financial institutions, to take effect from January 1. The guidelines involved reduction in the amount payable for cash withdrawals from other banks’…

Eight people have been killed in a helicopter crash in Taiwan – including the country’s top military general, Air Force General Shen Yi-ming, Taiwan’s chief of general staff.

A French citizen and native of Angola has died in the custody of US immigration agents, they said, the latest in a number of deaths during a US crackdown on illegal immigrants.

First Bank of Nigeria Ltd says a customer service executive assigned to the bank by one of its vendors was helping the police in the investigations of the attempted robbery in one of its branches in Abuja. The bank stated this in a statement by Mrs Folake Ani-Mumuney, the Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications on Wednesday in Lagos. “We are aware that a customer service executive assigned to us by one of our vendors is helping the police with their investigations into the attempted robbery that happened last week in one of our branches in Abuja. “We remain grateful…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) recorded a trading surplus of ₦13.23 billion in October 2019. This represented an increase of 54 per cent compared to ₦8.59 billion surplus posted in September 2019. The Corporation disclosed this in its Monthly Financial and Operation Report (MFOR) for the month of October released in Abuja, on Wednesday. The report reflected the sustained streak of positive results in the operations of the National Oil Company. It added that the September 2019 trading surplus of ₦8.59 billion in turn indicated a significant increase of 65 per cent compared to the ₦5.20billion surplus posted in August…

Arsenal kicked off the new year in style with a superb 2-0 win over Manchester United, handing Mikel Arteta his first victory in charge of the Gunners.

Jose Mourinho conceded that he deserved the yellow card he was shown during Wednesday’s loss to Southampton

A miserable festive period for Tottenham ended with a New Year’s Day defeat at a Danny Ings-inspired Southampton in the Premier League.