Category: News
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LEKKI DEEP SEA PORT HITS 50% CAPACITY IN CONTAINER BOOM
Nigeria’s flagship Lekki Deep Sea Port is firing on all cylinders, reaching half its designed operational capacity since September 2025 with surging 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) monthly—shipping lines and cargo bosses piling in thanks to slick ops at the nation’s first such mega-hub. MD Wang Qiang shared the milestone at Tuesday’s Lagos media parley, spotlighting…
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LAGOS POLICE NABS TIKTOKER PELLER OVER LIVESTREAM CRASH, SUICIDE CLAIM
Lagos Police have detained 20-year-old social media influencer Habeeb Hamzat, better known as Peller, after a viral video showed him driving recklessly and crashing his car while livestreaming to followers. Police spokesperson SP Abimbola Adebisi said the Sunday incident caused a serious accident that endangered both Peller and other road users, describing his actions as…
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RGES VACCINATION AS BEST DEFENCE
The World Health Organisation says a new influenza A(H3N2) subclade, tagged J.2.4.1 or subclade K, is spreading fast after first being picked up in Australia and New Zealand in August and is now present in more than 30 countries. It notes there’s no evidence yet that this strain causes more severe illness, but it represents…
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AMOKACHI SLAMS SHODDY PITCHES, URGES NIGERIA LEAGUE INFRA BOOST
Ex-Super Eagles star Daniel Amokachi fired shots at Nigerian football bosses Tuesday in Abuja, demanding urgent pitch upgrades and infra overhauls across leagues—slamming subpar fields rubber-stamped for NNL games that hobble young talent just because better options don’t exist. Post the NNL/Prostar/Sportslight Hub November Awards celebrating top players and coaches, Amokachi hailed progress like more…
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REPS ORDER UNI ABUJA VC TO BUST ALLEGED HOSTEL RACKETEERING SCAM
House Committee on University Education chair Abubakar Fulata (APC-Jigawa) dropped a bombshell directive Tuesday to new University of Abuja VC Prof. Hakeem Fawehinmi: launch a full probe into rampant accommodation racketeering where shady middlemen snatch hostels and flip them at 500% markups—leaving students, especially female ones, exposed to dangers and chaos. During an oversight visit…
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SKYPOWER JET CRASH-LANDS AT OWERRI AIRPORT—ALL 4 CREW SURVIVE
A chartered SkyPower Express C-172 (5N-ASR) from Kaduna crash-landed Tuesday night at Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport in Owerri, Imo State, en route to Port Harcourt—diverting in emergency around 6:58pm at Runway 17 threshold with no fatalities, but the bird wrecked and two crew rushed to hospital after blacking out. Police Airport PRO ASP Mohammed…
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SUPREME COURT RULING BACKS TINUBU’S RIVERS EMERGENCY MOVE—AJULO HAILS WISDOM
Ondo AG Kayode Ajulo (SAN) is applauding the Supreme Court’s sharp 6-1 verdict affirming President Bola Tinubu’s Section 305 powers to declare emergencies and temporarily suspend officials like Rivers Gov Siminalayi Fubara—calling it a masterclass in federal balance that spotlights Nigeria’s constitutional tensions without greenlighting overreach. In his breakdown of the Adamawa AG & 10…
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NDLEA LOCKS DOWN BRAZILIAN COCAINE SHIP & 21 CREW IN LAGOS BUST
Nigeria’s NDLEA just nailed a massive win at Apapa Seaport, securing a Federal High Court order to detain the MV San Antonio—fresh from Brazil with 25.5kg of cocaine stashed in its hatch—plus its captain and 20 multinational crew (Russians, Filipinos, Ukrainians, Azerbaijanis) nabbed post-cargo unload on December 6 intel tip-off. Spokesman Femi Babafemi confirmed Justice…
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SOUTH AFRICA NABS 7 KENYANS IN U.S. REFUGEE SCAM BUST
South African authorities cracked down hard Tuesday, arresting seven Kenyan nationals for illegally processing U.S. refugee applications for white South Africans at a makeshift center—slapping deportation orders after they snuck in on tourist visas despite prior work visa denials, amid Trump’s controversial resettlement push claiming racial persecution that Pretoria blasts as bogus. The Home Affairs…
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ANAMBRA POLICE SNAG ₦637K ROBBERY HAUL, GUNS & SMASHED SUV IN ABAGANA BUST
Anambra’s elite Commissioner of Police Special Patrol Team turned the tables Tuesday, recovering a whopping ₦636,700 in alleged stolen cash, a pump-action rifle, a locally fabricated single-barrel shotgun and a wrecked Toyota Highlander (UWN 680 PE)—all ditched by armed robbery suspects who crashed and fled during a blistering 5pm hot pursuit in Abagana, Njikoka LGA.…
