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IN a bid to ease difficulties in obtaining passport booklets in the country, the Comptroller General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Isa Idris, has issued directives for passport offices across the country to open on Saturdays. A communiqué issued by NIS Public Relations Officer (PRO), Deputy Comptroller Tony Akuneme, stated that the “action is expected to enable more people access the document and clear backlog occasioned by the 2020 and 2021 lockdown due to the COVID-19.” According to the circular, the CG also approved the immediate redeployment of two passport comptrollers, in Ondo and Ekiti states, as part…
TROOPS of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) deployed in Nigeria’s North Eastern have neutralized five Boko Haram terrorists. The gallant troops also arrested one member of the sect in the Mafa-Nganzai axis of Borno State. SPY News gathered that the insurgents were killed while moving in a convoy of gun trucks and motorcycles from the Northern part of the state to the Mafa axis. A counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, in Maiduguri, yesterday, said that the troops also captured one of the terrorist alive, while others fled with gunshot injuries. He said the troops achieved the feat…
After 35 years of meritorious service, the Nigerian Army on Friday held a pull-out parade in honour of 45 senior artillery officers at Nigerian Army School of Infantry, Kachia, Kaduna State. Seven Major Generals, 11 Brigadier Generals, 18 Colonels and one Lt. Colonel, three Majors and five captains making a total of 45 officers were pulled out of service. Speaking on behalf of his colleagues, Major General Abubakar Tarfa urged them to continue serving their fatherland even in retirement as they had done in the last 35 years while in active service. Tarfa tasked the retirees to embrace faithfulness, honesty…
An Appeal Court in Abuja has affirmed the conviction of Faisal, the son of Abdulrasheed Maina, for conspiracy and money laundering. Maina, the former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, is serving an eight-year jail term at Kuje Prison in Abuja for pension fraud to the tune of N2 billion and his son has been named an accomplice. Meanwhile, in a judgment on Thursday, November 24, 2022, a three-member panel of the appeal court reduced the term of imprisonment from 14 years to seven years on the grounds that he (Faisal) is a first-time offender. In the judgement…
AHEAD of the 2023 elections, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) Omoyele Sowore, has challenged his contenders to a debate in a bid to discuss ideas that can move Nigeria forward. Sowore, an activist revealed the challenge on Wednesday during a live appearance on Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today. Sowore specifically, challenged Labour Party, LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar. According to him, Obi, Tinubu and Atiku will not show up in the debate because they lack ideas. “Bring…
Nine locals have lost their lives with over 20 others injured as gunmen attacked SER community in Wumat of Tarangol district area in Kwata ward of Bokko Local Government Area of Plateau State on Wednesday. SPY News learnt that over 30 houses were also razed with harvested crops and other valuable assets such as cars, motorcycles, water pump machines worth million of naira destroyed. Hon. Sylvester Wallangko, who is the All Progressives Congress(APC) flag bearer for Plateau Assembly was also affected by the attack. He lost his relations and some of his properties was vandalized during the…
Presidential Candidate of the Labour party, LP, Peter Obi, said on Monday that if elected as President of Nigeria, he may also borrow more money. The Labour Party presidential candidate, while speaking on Nigeria’s debt profile, said that there was nothing wrong with borrowing but that his administration could only borrow for investment. Naija News reports that Obi said this yesterday during his address at the Editors Forum, an initiative of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, held in Lagos. He said: “Every nation borrows; individual businesses borrow all over the world. What is important is what we use the borrowed…
Twelve people, including three women, have been flogged in front of thousands of onlookers at a football stadium in Afghanistan. The group were guilty of “moral crimes” including adultery, robbery and gay sex, a Taliban official told the BBC. This is thought to be the second time in a month the Islamist group have carried out public lashings. The move could signal a return to the hard-line practices seen in the previous Taliban rule in the 1990s. Omar Mansoor Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman for Logar region in eastern Afghanistan, where the lashings happened, said that all three women were freed…
President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled the new naira notes on Wednesday morning before the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the state house, Abuja. Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (BN), was in attendance during the unveiling ceremony. Details shortly…
Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has promised to wipe out Boko Haram and help business owners revive and expand their businesses in order jump start the economy, if elected President in 2023. Atiku made the promise while addressing a crowd of party supporters at PDP presidential campaign in Gombe, Gombe State, yesterday. The former Vice President, who addressed the audience mostly in Hausa, said: “What I want to pledge here in Gombe is to ensure that we give businesses the support to set-up industries that will give youths, both males and females, jobs. “Recall it…