Author: Opalim Lifted

According to Mr Festus Olumati, harbour Manager, of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), Calabar Port, the number of ships berthing at the harbour has significantly increased the local economy. While on watch duty at the port facility in Calabar on Sunday as more than four boats were unloading their different goods and fuel products, Olumati made this statement. According to the port manager, one of the ships, “MV Desert Unity,” berthed at the port with 16,000 metric tonnes of wheat, and “MV Medi Bangkok” berthed with 18,251 metric tonnes of general cargo, which included vehicles like automobiles and lorries as…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has proclaimed Faith Ugochi, a Port Harcourt-based prophetess and proprietor of Christ Power Adoration Ministries, wanted. The anti-narcotics agency is also seeking information on the whereabouts of a celebrity couple, Igho Ubiribo and Danielle Simba Allen. The triumvirate allegedly recruited adolescent females into an international drug trafficking syndicate that operated from Los Angeles, United States. The NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO import warehouse of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, intercepted a consignment of 32.70 kilogrammes of loud. After freight agent, Ukoh Ifeanyi Oguguo was detained, further investigations led to the…

Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, stated on Sunday that he never advocated for or spoke on behalf of any candidate in the run-up to the country’s 2023 General Elections. Oyedepo made the remarks while speaking to the congregation at the church’s headquarters, Faith Tabernacle, Ota, Ogun State, in response to a leaked audio between the cleric and the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on the eve of the presidential poll discussing the mobilisation of Christians in Kwara and South-West states to vote for him (Obi). Meanwhile, while alluding to the allegedly stolen phone call…

The Nigerian Army’s troops and special forces killed 11 terrorists in intense combat during battling raids in Kaduna State’s Birnin Gwari Local Government Area. The troops advanced to several identified locations and cleared terrorists camps in Bagoma, Rema, Bugai, Dagara, Sabon Layi, Gagumi, Kakangi, Katakaki, and Randagi, according to Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State. During these activities, the troops came into touch with terrorists at Kakangi and Katakaki. Following an intense gunfight, the outlaws were subjugated by the soldiers’ bold weaponry. Eleven attackers were verified to have been killed, while others escaped. Following…

In a time when high inflation is making it even harder for people to make ends meet, thousands of people protested against rising rentals and home prices on the streets of Lisbon and other Portuguese towns on Saturday. At the demonstration in Lisbon, Rita Silva from the Habita housing organisation declared, “There is a severe housing crisis right now.” A societal catastrophe has occurred. According to official statistics, more than 50% of employees in Portugal, one of Western Europe’s lowest nations, made less than $1,000 ($1,084) per month in 2017. The minimum salary is 760 euros per month. According to…

The Lagos State Government has revealed intentions to close one portion of the Third Mainland Bridge on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. owing to bridge repairs. Traffic will be shifted from one channel to another at the marked failed asphaltic portions on the Bridge, according to a statement issued on Saturday by Lagos State Commissioner of Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde. “About the notification received for the readiness of the Lagos State Public Works Corporation to repair the identified failed/peeled asphaltic sections of the Third Mainland Bridge, the Lagos State Government has announced a traffic diversion plan for the…

Lauretta Onochie, a former media assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari and Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has been banned by the APC leadership in Delta’s Onicha-Olona Ward 4. A motion written by Ogbolu Peter Nduka and Justina Amagor Akaeze, Chairman and Secretary of the Ward Committee in Aniocha North Local Government Area, and 25 other members of the ward committee, charged the Chairman of the NDDC Board of supposed anti-party actions. The message, dated March 20, 2023, and written directly to the Chairman of the APC Delta State branch, charged Lauretta Onochie of working…

Police have detained three lawyers who are allegedly submitting procedures for the All Progressives Congress at the Port Harcourt electoral appeal panel. The lawyers are said to be drafting applications to challenge the results of the recently ended gubernatorial election in Rivers State announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission. They were allegedly apprehended on Friday night at a motel in Port Harcourt. Their capture is still being investigated. The lawyers work for the Senior Advocate of Nigeria Tuduru Ede’s Chamber. Darlington Nwauju, the State APC Publicity Secretary, verified the event to our reporter on Saturday afternoon. Lagos police recover…

The police have detained Frank Nwajugu, who vowed to bring The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to Lagos State. The Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate, Lagos State, stated in a video that he would call IPOB to protect South Easterners and their property in Lagos State on Friday, March 31, 2023. Making a bold declaration, he said: “IPOB, we will invite them. They have no job. All of the IPOB will protect all of our shops. And we have to pay them. We have to mobilize for that. We have to do that. We must have our security so that…

Olatoyosi Abiodun, a hit-and-run truck driver, was charged by the Ogun State Police Command on Friday with murdering three people in the state capital of Abeokuta. The deceased was killed in their home in Enugada, by the road, according to a statement released on Friday by the state police public relations officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi claimed that the driver sped away from the site as soon as she saw the collision. He claimed that the driver was later detained and accused of six counts of reckless driving, including endangering the lives of three people and damaging three other cars.…