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The Presidency has called on Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, to retract his inflammatory remarks regarding President Bola Tinubu’s tax reform bills.    In a statement issued Monday by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, the Presidency described the governor’s comments as counterproductive and unrepresentative of Northern Nigeria.   Governor Mohammed had criticised the tax reforms …

The Anambra State Police Command has arrested one Chukwuma Obi, 32, who threatened to kidnap a person if the victim fails to pay N1.2m ransom.      The spokesperson of the command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, in a statement on Wednesday, December 25, 2024, said the suspect posed as a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and asked the …

The home of the boss of the US’s largest health insurance company was hit with bomb threats hours after he was sh0t d£ad outside a New York City hotel.   Roughly 12 hours after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was k!lled, police investigated bomb threats to his home in Maple Grove, Minnesota, according to a police report obtained by The New …

The Lagos State Government has sounded a warning over the grave threat to its aquatic ecosystem caused by excessive and indiscriminate dredging of the lagoon in coastal areas by illegal operators.   Commissioner for the Ministry of Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Ekundayo Alebiosu, raised the alarm during an emergency meeting with dredgers and tipper operators in Alausa, Ikeja, on Friday, November …

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Hezbollah’s acting leader has issued a chilling threat to Israel as conflict between the IDF and the terror group gets more intense.     Acting leader Sheikh Naim Kassem, appointed following the IDF’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on September 27, said in a televised statement today that even more Israelis would be displaced as Hezbollah fires rockets further …