D’Tigress, Nigeria’s senior women national basketball team, on Sunday in Kigali, Rwanda advanced into the quarter-finals of the ongoing 2023 AfroBasket Championship after defeating their Egyptian foes 83-65.
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ASHENEWS reports that the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has blasted Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma for deploying the powers of State against innocent Northerners doing legitimate business in his domain and looking the other way while the IPOB terror militia – emboldened by the Southeast political elite – maimed, killed and destroyed Northern businesses in his domain.
A Civil Society Organisation, Save Nigeria Movement (SNM), has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to compensate Nigerians with N2 trillion Naira for losses incurred during the implementation of the naira redesign policy.
ASHENEWS reports that security operatives comprising of troops of 181 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian Army (NA), the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), as well as operatives of Tantita Security, have shut down an illegal refinery site in Owahwa community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an artistes’ manager and his businessman accomplice who specialise in distributing illicit drugs to fun seekers at VIP night clubs and lounges in Lekki and Island axis of Lagos state.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has seized no fewer than 156,575 tramadol pills and other illicit drugs in five states and the FCT in the last two weeks.
ASHENEWS reports that the Adamawa state Police Command has arrested 44 persons over Sunday’s looting of government warehouses in the state.
As the People of Adamawa are much anticipating who President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will appoint as one of his cabinet members on the awaiting second batch of the ministerial list.
The Kano state Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission says it has commenced investigation of over N4 billion missing government funds from the state Kano Agricultural Supply Company (KASCO).
ASHENEWS reports that BUA Cement Company has supported 15 community clinics in Sokoto state with drugs and hospital equipment.