The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has sealed 46 facilities in 10 states of the federation for various forms of environmental violations. The assistant director (press) NESREA, Amaka Ejiofor, stated this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. According to her, the enforcement exercise was carried out in Borno, Gombe, Ogun, Enugu, Edo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Nasarawa and Taraba states. Ms Ejiofor explained that the facilities were shut down for refusing to comply with the provisions of the National Environmental Regulations. ” Their offences include violation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act, lack of Environmental Audit Report,…
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria said the police command in Kaduna State arrested four suspected vandals caught destroying transmission towers installed in some parts of the state. TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. The general manager said that among the instruments recovered from them were shovels and diggers. Mrs Mbah said that TCN appreciated efforts of the police and assured of its continued collaboration with security operatives in safeguarding transmission infrastructure nationwide. She said, “The suspects will be prosecuted soon.’’ (NAN)
The lingering supremacy battle between the Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and lawmakers loyal to his estranged godfather and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has shifted to the Supreme Court. The Speaker of the lawmakers loyal to Fubara in the state House of Assembly, Victor Oko Jumbo, said the factional assembly had filed an appeal at the apex court to challenge the judgement by the Appeal Court delivered in Abuja on Wednesday. Recall that the Appeal Court had nullified the order of a Rivers State High Court which restrained Amaewhule and other pro Wike lawmakers from parading…
woman residing in Okenne, Kogi State, has cried out that her 32-year-old daughter, Hamidat Abdulrafiu, who left home to meet a customer at Lokoja, the Kogi State, on June 18, 2024, has been missing. Hamidat’s mother, Mrs Ramot Yakubu disclosed this to City Round, adding that her daughter’s number has not been reachable since June 19. Mrs Ramot noted that Hamidat was traced to Abuja but there was no report of kidnapping or accident as all efforts to get her back have not yielded any positive results despite reporting at the police station. She said, “Hamidat is a businesswoman who sells…
The Lagos State Police Command has disclosed that some kidnappers engaged its officers in a gun battle during a foiled kidnapping attempt at Ladipo area of the state. According to the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Benjamin Hundeyin, the kidnappers had concluded to strike before they were confronted by the police on Thursday. Hundeyin, in a statement on Friday, disclosed that nine of the kidnappers were killed, while two others escaped with gunshot injuries. He stated that the kidnappers planned to kidnap numerous wealthy individuals in Isolo, Okota, Ejigbo and Ladipo areas of Lagos State. Related News UPDATED:…
Some officers of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun were injured on Friday following an attack by a group of people suspected to be herdsmen in Akure, the state capital. It was gathered that the corps arrested some cows which allegedly destroyed farmlands in Osi and Igboba Communities in the North Local Government Area of the state on Friday. A source narrated that the Amotekun officers were taking the arrested cows numbering about 120 to the state headquarters of the Amotekun Command in Akure when the herders accosted them on the Akure-Ado expressway and attacked them.…
Security operatives arrested six suspected kidnappers in a raid on bandits’ camps in Kaduna and Niger states. This was disclosed in a press releaseby the FCT police public relations officer, Josephine Adeh, on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Benneth Igweh, on Friday. The command’s spokesperson said the command’s anti-kidnapping unit conducted the clear-out of the camps in a joint operation with troops of the Nigerian Army Guards brigade between June 30 and July 4, 2024. Mrs Adeh said the operatives, during the operations, “stormed some identified bandits camps in Gidan Dogo and Jerei forests, Kaduna State, and Niger State, all…
Pandemonium struck in Ughelli, Delta State, on Friday when suspected armed robbers attacked a bank customer at the premises of a new-generation bank in the metropolis. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gunmen numbering about five in a Toyota Venza, had trailed the unidentified customer to the bank premises, before shooting sporadically while attacking their target. Witnesses said that the customer had yet to enter the banking hall when the gunmen struck and eventually made away with three ‘Ghana Must Go’ bags containing money. Related News Gunmen kill five in Ecuador city Kidnappers kill two, abduct others in Ogun farm raid…
A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa the state capital has sentenced two persons to five years imprisonment for conspiracy, armed robbery, and unlawful possession of firearms. Believe Leisure (36) and Jacob Doukumo (42), in the Suit Number BYHC/BHC/CR/1/2023, were arrested by the police on December 24, 2022, along Sangana Creek in Brass Local Government Area of the state. Police counsel, Stella Jerry-Friday, said they were arraigned on charges of conspiracy to commit felony and armed robbery which are punishable under Section 1(2)(a) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act.CAPT. R11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.…
The General overseer, Champions for Christ Chapel Asaba, Delta State, Pastor Samuel Akpan–Isong, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly, governors and spirited individuals to tackle food insecurity and other socioeconomic challenges in their bids to cushion the effects of hunger currently being experienced by Nigerians. Akpan -Isong, also tasked the ruling class not to lock their gates against the poor, but to give, no matter how small, to people around them, saying “When people are happy, you are happy too but when they are not happy, you share their pains”. The cleric stated this on Friday in…