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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has promised a backup or buffer system to ensure that Nigerians won’t be thrown into blackout whenever the national grid collapses. TCN Managing Director, Sule Abdulaziz, stated told Channels TV. He blamed aged infrastructure as old as 50 years for the frequent national grid collapses in the country. Abdulaziz said, “Presently, we are doing the scatter system for the whole network and it is funded by the World Bank, and the project will take two years to be completed, and now, we have done 70% of the project. “Almost a month ago, we were…

Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, said the growing number of out-of-school children in the country poses a great security risk for the nation in the future. He said that the over 20 million out of school children in Nigeria are only being prepared for recruitment into Boko Haram and banditry in the next 10 to 15 years. The former president said this in Bauchi on Sunday at the commissioning ceremony of some selected projects executed by Governor Bala Mohammed. “Let me emphasise what we want to do, human capacity building, education and human capacity building very important. World Bank…

The Department of State Service (DSS) has officially replaced Adegboyega Fasasi as Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Bola Tinubu, appointing Rasheed Atanda Lawal, a Deputy Director, as his successor. Details surrounding this development remained limited as of Sunday evening, but sources indicate that Fasasi, who has held the CSO position since Tinubu’s inauguration, is stepping down to pursue a professional training course. According to insiders, DSS Director-General Tosin Ajayi requested Tinubu’s approval to release Fasasi for the strategic training opportunity. While some speculated on potential controversies surrounding the change, sources familiar with the situation emphasized that such transitions are…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two businessmen for attempting to import and export cocaine pellets and parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis through the Lagos airport. The suspects – Okechukwu Emmanuel, Iwuagwu Ikedi Victory and Usman Grace Khadijat Olami – were nabbed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos Spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. “Ihejirika who frequents Thailand from where he claims to be importing fish into Nigeria was arrested on Tuesday 15th October 2024 while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight…

Liverpool returned to the top of the Premier League with victory over Chelsea at Anfield as manager Arne Slot’s outstanding start continued. The Dutchman is the first Liverpool boss to win 10 of his first 11 games, this latest triumph sending them a point clear of Manchester City following their dramatic stoppage-time victory at Wolves earlier. Mohamed Salah put Liverpool ahead from the spot after 29 minutes following Levi Colwill’s foul on Curtis Jones, though a second penalty awarded on the stroke of half-time for Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez’s block on the same player was overturned by the video assistant…

Nigerian and Bayer 04 Leverkusen striker Victor Boniface survived a fatal car crash after scoring the winning goal against Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany. Boniface, who posted a video clip, images of him being hospitalized, and the crash scene in his social media page on Sunday, wrote, “Na so una for hear say my enemy don die.” Thank you, Lord”. The footballer had been involved in an auto accident in his car abroad, which left much of the luxury car badly battered and damaged. He sustained some injuries and has since been to the hospital for treatment and examination. The Nigerian…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu and his government “to stop the ‘weaponization’ of the country’s security agencies to target Nigerians simply for the peaceful exercise of their human rights, and to direct the Department of State Services (DSS) to immediately withdraw the baseless defamation lawsuit by their proxies against our organization and management staff.” Two named DSS officials last week filed a defamation lawsuit against SERAP, following allegations by the organization regarding the recent invasion of its Abuja office by some officials of the security agency. In the open letter dated 19 October…

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Saturday said he would not be distracted by the theatrics of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, whom he claimed is using the current hardship to play politics at the expense of the masses. The former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, titled ‘Wike and His T-Pain Collaborators Playing Politics with the Suffering of Nigerians.’ Atiku’s statement was in response to Wike’s earlier remarks that the former Vice President has lost relevance in politics and that Nigerians…

Former Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said the virtue of integrity has become a scarce commodity, regretting that only a few possess it. Osinbajo, who said this while delivering a keynote address at the matriculation ceremony of MIVA Open University in Abuja, noted that integrity is a currency for business and interpersonal relationships. The professor tasked the students to imbibe critical ingredients to a purposeful life, which, according to him, includes integrity, hard work, and collaboration while they focus on their educational pursuits. While reminding them that it is what endures beyond one’s immediate lifetime that matters, the former vice…

The internal crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may not end soon after the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, publicly attacked the party’s former presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, describing him as a politician who has lost relevance in politics across the country. Wike argued that Nigerians demonstrated this rejection during the 2023 presidential election, which Atiku contested but lost to President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The FCT minister, who noted that elections remain a viable platform for any politician to test his popularity, stressed that it is time for the former Vice…