Greetings Nigeria! Dive into the latest headlines with The Informant247’s roundup of top Nigerian newspaper headlines this Friday, January 19, 2024. Stay informed with the most current news updates.
Renewed hope as Nigeria beat hosts country Cote D’Ivoire 1-0 in AFCON crunchy clash
The Super Eagles of Nigeria bounced back to reckoning on Thursday with a 1-0 victory over Cote D’Ivoire at the ongoing AFCON in their second group stage game.
They had earlier played a 1-1 draw with Equatorial Guinea in what many regarded as a poor outing for the three times AFCON Champions.
Eagles have always been tipped as one of the favourites of the African showpiece due to their rich history and records.
Days after writing petition against Davido, famous Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage robbed in UK
Famous Nigerian singer Tiwatope Omolara Savage Savage, popularly called Tiwa Savage, has been robbed in the United Kingdom, where she is currently.
The singer, while revealing the sad incident in a post via her Instagram story on Thursday, failed to give much details about the robbery.
“Damn London, una show me pepper o. Got robbed yesterday,” she wrote in a combination of pidgin and English.
This is coming some days after Somebody Son crooner wrote to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayode Adegoke Mustapha, over an alleged threat against her by Afrobeats star David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido.
Firefight, kidnappers fled as Military rescues 9 victims in Benue forest
In a successful joint operation, troops of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), in collaboration with the police and other security agencies, have executed a daring rescue mission in Benue, resulting in the liberation of 9 kidnap victims and the apprehension of two suspects.
Maj. Gen. Sunday Igbinomwanhia, the Force Commander of OPWS, shared the triumphant news with newsmen on Thursday in Makurdi.
The operation unfolded on Tuesday in the dense Owukpa forest, located in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of the state.
The rescued individuals, comprising eight females and a male, had fallen victim to kidnappers during transit in a commercial bus along Otukpo – Enugu Road on January 11.
14 reservoirs containing 3 million liters of crude oil uncovered in Rivers
The 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has unveiled a startling find of 14 crude oil reservoirs containing approximately 3 million liters in Odagwa Etche, Etche Local Government Area.
The operation, led by Major General Jamal Abdussalam, General Officer Commanding, involved the discovery of 49 boilers utilized for refining stolen crude oil.
Conducting journalists on a tour of the hidden reservoirs nestled within a dense forest, Major General Abdussalam attributed the success to credible intelligence.
He explained the detection of 14 reservoirs, each capable of storing over 200,000 liters of crude oil, along with the presence of 49 crude oil boilers strategically placed in the area, stating that the illegal operators had ingeniously constructed tanks, utilizing hoses and cables to connect crude oil from abandoned well heads.
High chief, three others abducted as gunmen attack Kwara community
A local chief and three other teenagers were on Tuesday night, abducted after suspected gunmen invaded the Afin community, Ile-Ire district of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State
According to a report, the state police command confirmed the arrest of three suspects in connection with the abduction.
DSP Toun Ejire-Adeyemi, the state Police Public Relations Officer, while giving an account of the incident, identified the local chief as Simon Ibiwoye, who is the Olukotun of Afin community and three other teenagers, adding that it was the “Kabiyesi of the community who informed the police about the development”.
Ejire-Adeyemi said, “The abducted victims were taken to an unknown location, but on the receipt of the information, a team of the military, police and local hunters swung into action and stormed the bush where they were able to arrest three alleged informants linked to the suspected armed kidnappers now on the run.”
Reform “Yahoo Boys” to IT specialists – Cyber-Security expert tells EFCC
Mr Chidiebere Ihediwa, a cyber-security specialist, on Wednesday, advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to devise methods of re-orientating arrested educated online fraudsters (aka Yahoo Boys) to become information technology specialists, saying the strategy is better than allowing them to languish in detention or undergo destructive dissolution.
Ihediwa, a renowned software developer, made this call during an award ceremony in his honour at the Police Officers Mess, GRA Ikeja, Lagos, saying, “Knowledge can be categorised into two – positive and negative.”
He also explained that “even if there were many educated young men among the cyber fraudsters, their inherent knowledge was at variance with the ideal positive knowledge needed for societal development.”
The cybersecurity specialist pointed out that “re-directing the knowledge of the Yahoo boys to meaningful ventures will be of great advantage to the nation.”
Ibadan blast: Govt identifies culprits as death toll rises to three
Governor Seyi Makinde-led Oyo State government on Wednesday said it has identified the company that stored the explosives caused Tuesday night’s explosion on Dejo Oyelese Street, Adeyi Avenue, Old Bodija, Ibadan.
Makinde, while addressing the newsmen at the briefing room of the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, promised to bring the culprits to justice.
“Those who brought this tragedy on Oyo State will be brought to book,” he said.
Makinde, while maintaining that it was a trying time for the state and that its people must draw on their strength and resilience and be their brother’s keepers, also called for calm, assuring that the government has been on top of the situation and that it was leaving no stone unturned regarding the search and rescue of victims at the rubble of the incident as well as the welfare of victims and the security of their properties.
Rivers Assembly clears nine commissioner-nominees loyal to Wike
As part of the implementation of the eight-point resolution reached at a peace meeting brokered between Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers and his predecessor and the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike to resolve the political crisis rocking State, the House of Assembly on Wednesday, in its screening for the Commissioner nominees sent by Governor Fubara asked the nine nominees to take a bow and go.
The Informant247 gathered that the nine nominees are loyalists of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Barrister Nyesom Wike.
The State House of Assembly, in a letter of invitation signed by the Clerk, Dr Emeka Amadi, directed key Wike loyalists who had earlier rendered their resignation to appear before it for screening.
Those invited for the screening were Zacchaeus Adangor, Dr. Jacobson Mbina , Dr Gift Worlu, Mrs Inime Chinwenwo-Aguma, Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke, Prof. Prince Chinedu Mmo, Dr. George-Kelly D. Alabo, Hon. Isaac Kamalu and Engr. Austin Ben Chioma.
Ibadan explosion: Illegal miners to be dealt with, says Tinubu
Following the unfortunate incident caused by the explosives of the illegal miners, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday, vowed to arrest the perpetrators of the illegal miners in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The Informant247 reports that no fewer than two people have been confirmed dead, while 77 others were injured on Tuesday night in the explosion that occurred in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, confirmed this during his visit to the explosion scene, adding that the blast occurred at Adeyi Avenue, Bodija, and was caused by illegal miners occupying one of the houses in Bodija
