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A Chinese firm, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Company has announced the release of one of the three Nigerian presidential jets seized on the order of a French court. The company’s spokesperson disclosed this in a statement on Friday. According to the company, the release of the aircraft is a gesture of goodwill as they have been made aware that the Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu would be needing it for a scheduled meeting with French President, Emmanuel Macron. It has now been made aware that an Airbus A330, currently detained in France as a result of a French court order obtained…

The Anambra State Commissioner for Youth Development, Patrick Agha Mba and his wife, Chizoba, were kidnapped in Ubiaja, Esan South-East Local Government Area of Edo State. Straightnews gathered that his  special assistant, A.B Affiah, was k!lled during the attack which occurred on Friday, August 16, 2024. The Commissioner alongside his wife was reportedly travelling to Abuja to attend the wedding ceremony of Adaora, the daughter of Governor Chukwuma Soludo scheduled for Saturday, August 17, when his vehicle was ambushed by the gunmen. The spokesperson for the Anambra State Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the abduction of the couple. The PPRO…

Shehu Sani, a former Nigerian lawmaker, says he is vindicated after Senator Sumaila Kawu admitted that he receives N21 million monthly as salary and allowances. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District, had earlier claimed that each Senator in the 9th National Assembly collected a monthly running cost of ₦13.5 million in addition to a ₦750,000 salary. Reacting to Kawu’s revelation, Sani took to X to write: “Yesterday, the RMFAC refuted my statement but I’m vindicated by Senator Kawu Sumaila who confirmed that the monthly alert is N21 million and not N1 million. “RMFAC make una mind yourself.” As a…

By Agency Report The power outage affecting Akwa Ibom State for more than two days is due to the vandalism of 13 transmission towers along the Ahoada-Yenagoa 132kV Double Circuit transmission line, according to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). The News Agency of Nigeria reports that TCN towers T97 to T99 were destroyed by vandals on 29 July.  Bayelsa State is one of the states in the South-South Region expected to experience an extended blackout. In a statement on Wednesday, Ndidi Mbah, TCN’s General Manager for Public Affairs, noted that the blackout will also impact several communities in Rivers…

By Press Release Akwa Ibom Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has charged the Church to sustain the fight of faith by praying relentlessly for Nigeria.   Eno made the call, Tuesday in Ikot Ekpene when he declared open the 49th/14th Biennial Conference of the Methodist Church Nigeria, held at the Groves Memorial Methodist Cathedral, Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Represented by the Deputy Governor, Senator (Dr.) Akon Eyakenyi, the Governor said regular intercessory prayers by the Church would help to douse tension and take the nation to her desired destination. “We owe our nation the responsibility of interceding for…

Compensation payment on gas leak from a pipeline operated by Accugas Ltd, a subsidiary of Savannah Energy Plc, almost caused a showdown between a company and Ikot Ukpong and Ikot Inyang Abia communities, Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Straightnews has gathered. The gas emission, which started on Sunday, August 11, 2024, at about 5 a.m, engulfed the two communities and adjoining ones, sending dangerous health signals to the inhabitants. Recall that Savannah Energy PLC, the British independent energy company focusing on delivery of projects, signed off the company’s 80 per cent to its subsidiary, Accugas Limited. Accugas…

The Nigerian Government has frozen more than $37 million worth of cryptocurrency held in wallets allegedly owned by some organisers of the August protests. The freezing followed an order by the Federal High Court, Abuja. The judge, Emeka Nwite, gave the order in a ruling delivered August, a copy of the decision seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday shows. Mr Nwite issued the order based on an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In the ex-parte application filed on 8 August and heard by the court on the following day, the EFCC described the assets as proceeds…

The Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders Forum (NDENYLF) has condemned what it sees as  organised efforts to undermine the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and political leaders from the southern parts of Nigeria. A press statement by the body signed by the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) President, Jonathan Lokpobiri, particularly condemned “targeted personal attacks” on Senator Akpabio. The forum recalled a pattern of unjustified criticism and plots against such prominent Southern figures as former Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan; ex-Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice, Walter Onneghen, and former acting Director General of the Department of State Security Service, Dr. Matthew…

Akwa Ibom Government is yet to constitute a committee to implement payment of new Minimum wage to workers in its employ, the state Head of Civil Service, Elder Effiong Essien, said. Elder Essien who conveyed the message to Straightnews newspaper via telephone on Monday, August 12 responded thus ‘‘Not Yet.’’ Recall that the state Head of Civil Service, Essien, had assured of the state government’s readiness to pay the agreed new minimum wage between the Federal Government and Nigeria Labour Congress. He stated this on Wednesday, June 24, 2024 while fielding questions from newsmen during a press briefing to mark…

The 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, is peeved over the poor outing by Nigerian sporting officials at the just-concluded Paris Olympics for returning to the country without a medal. The Olympic flame was officially extinguished during an elaborate closing ceremony Sunday, officially ending the 2024 Paris Games as Los Angeles takes over for 2028. Obi while reacting to the poor outing of Nigerian team in the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024 complained against the attitude of Nigerian sporting authorities, noting that their gross misconducts should be checked. The businessman cum politician has called on the federal government…