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The Federal Government has approved N4billion for fueling of police operational vehicles across 36 states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory. The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed this at the National Institute of Police Studies in Abuja on Tuesday. Dingyadi stressed that approving such a large sum of funds for fueling under the 2021 budget is...

The Board of Trustees (BoT), governors, former ministers, National Assembly Caucus and former governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday met and asked the party’s National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus to convene a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting next week. The meeting also resolved that Secondus’ tenure which was supposed to elapse in December should now end in...

An Ilorin Magistrate court on Tuesday remanded a sixteen-year-old girl, (name withheld), for allegedly setting her colleague, Fatimoh Jako ablaze over a minor misunderstanding that ensued between them. She was dragged before Magistrate F.O Olokoyo for alleged Criminal Trespass, Mischief by Fire and Culpable Homicide contrary to sections 327, 342 and 221 penal code law. The incident occurred at Moshegada, Kaima local...

The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress- Ebonyi state chapter Hon. Stanley Okoro Emegha has commended party faithfuls and stakeholders for the smooth conduct of party Ward Congress in the state. In a statement signed by the chairman, he also thanked leaders for their support. Read Full statement: On behalf of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressive Congress...

Bandits who abducted the Niger State Commissioner for Information, Muhammed Sanni Idris, have made a N500 million ransom to secure his release. Ripples Nigeria had reported how heavily armed gunmen kidnapped Idris from his country home in Baban Tunga, Tafa Local Government Area of the state in the early hours of Monday. Confirming the ransom demand by the bandits to Ripples Nigeria on...

Lionel Messi has agreed to join Paris Saint-Germain on a two-year contract, according to reports. The French club reportedly offered Messi an initial two-year deal, thought to be worth £25m a year after tax. He is expected to fly to France to seal the deal, which includes an option to extend it by a year. Messi, his lawyers and his father,...

The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC) says the country will start administering the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from August 10. The vaccines were donated by the United State of America. The committee’s Director of Publicity, Willie Bassey, made this known in a statement saturday in Abuja. According to Bassey, this is to step up efforts to battle the third wave of...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has met the Beninese President, Patrice Talon, in a bid to get a soft landing for the self-professed Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, who is standing trial in the country, TheCable reports. Igboho, who was arrested in Cotonou over two weeks ago, is standing trial for alleged illegal possession of a Beninese passport and...

The paramount ruler of Irigwe Ethnic Nationality in Plateau State, His Royal Highness, Bra Ngwe Irigwe, Rt Rev Ronku Aka, has accused security operatives and soldiers of not responding to calls to move in and stop marauding killer herdsmen who laid siege on communities in the Bassa Local Government Area from Saturday, July 30, to Wednesday, August 4. While lamenting...

Lionel Messi was in tears at a news conference where he officially confirmed his depart from Spanish giants Barcelona. The Argentine spoke at a conference on Sunday following a failed stay-on contract with the La Liga club, where he spent 21 years of his footballing career. “This is the end with this club and now a new story will begin. Yes,...