Author: Alade Adisa

The fresh collapse of the national grid has been blamed on the bus section of a current transformer that exploded at the 330kV Jebba Transmission substation. According to a statement by the General Manager, Public Affairs, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mrs Ndidi Mbah, “According to the report from the NCC, the bus section of a current transformer exploded at 330kV Jebba Transmission Substation and as expected, the protection system was activated, and this promptly opened the busbars to curtail the explosion, thereby preventing outbreak of fire and further damage to adjacent equipment.” Describing the situation as a temporary disturbance,…

A drone has hit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s holiday home in the country’s north, Al Jazeera has confirmed, triggering air raid sirens across Israel, including the main city of Tel Aviv. Netanyahu’s spokesman said one of three drones launched from Lebanon hit Netanyahu’s residence in the town of Caesarea on Saturday, adding that he was not in the vicinity and there were no casualties. The two other drones were intercepted, the Israeli military said, adding that a total of more than 100 rockets were fired across northern Israel from Lebanon, killing one person and injuring at least 13 others.…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which is the US agency in charge of regulating road safety revealed on Friday that they are probing Tesla’s self-driving software systems. Tech billionaire, Elon Musk owns Tesla. BBC reports that the evaluation by the NHTSA covers 2.4 million Tesla vehicles across multiple models manufactured between 2016 and 2024. It said NHTSA’s action is the first step toward any potential recall that the agency might seek against the company. NHTSA’s preliminary evaluation follows four crash reports involving the use of Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving”, or FSD, software. The agency said the crashes involved reduced…

The NNPC – Chevron Nigeria Limited Joint Venture (NNPC-CNL JV) has announced that it has made a major oil discovery at the Meji NW-1 well in Petroleum Mining Lease (PML) 49, offshore the Niger Delta. Announcing the development in a statement on Friday, NNPC General Manager, Policy Government and Public Affairs, Olusoga Oduselu, said after successful drilling, the well was spudded on September 2, 2024, and the 8,983-ft depth was reached on September 13, 2024. The statement confirmed that it encountered about 690ft of hydrocarbons within Miocene sands and successfully appraised an extension of the Meji field. Oduselu said, “The…

The current Chairman of the Borno State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Alhaji Dauda Iliya, has been appointed by the Borno State governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, as his Special Adviser on Media and official spokesperson. Iliya’s appointment came after the position became vacant following the death of Mallam Isa Gusau last February. The appointment was disclosed in a statement yesterday signed by the governor’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on New Media, Abdurrahman Bundi.The new spokesperson, who hails from Kwaya-Kusar Local Government Area of Borno State he holds a bachelor’s degree in English Linguistics from the University of…

Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS) has slammed a N5.5 billion defamation suit on the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) for allegedly making a false claim against it. In the legal action it instituted before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on Friday, DSS stated that SERAP falsely alleged that DSS operatives invaded its Abuja office. The service told the court that the false claim negatively impacted both its corporate reputation and that of two of its officials- Sarah John and Gabriel Ogundele- who were listed as claimants in the matter. SERAP and…

Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed no fewer than 96 terrorists during operations in the Northern parts of the country. According to the Defence Headquarters, a total of 227 suspects, including a terrorist commander identified as Usman Maisaje, were arrested in the operations. Making the announcement in a statement on Friday, the Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Buba Edward said Maisaje was a close associate of a wanted high-profile terrorist leader known as Kachalla Boka. Edward said the suspect was cooperating and providing troops with much-needed intelligence for further operations. The statement stated, “During the week, troops…

lThe Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun has disclosed that Nigeria is the largest importer of vehicles in Africa. Edun made this revelation in Lagos at the zonal sensitization seminar on the National Vehicle Registry (VREG) held on Friday. Represented by Hajia Jumai Katagom, Director, PPP Federal Ministry of Finance, Edu said the VREG became necessary due to the absence of a dynamic and centralized platform for national vehicular information, despite Nigeria being the largest importer of vehicles in Africa with an additional 15 million vehicles operational in the country. He said, “This huge vacuum…

The former deputy national chair (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George has disclosed that he would have left Nigeria if President Bola Tinubu had not sent Femi Gbajabiamila to appeal to him. Recall that in January 2022, after Tinubu announced his presidential bid, George vowed to flee Nigeria, stating: “I will move away from Nigeria. I’ll leave because he will be your representative in the international plane. Which investment will he bring here? ”This is not the kind of person we can hand over this massive country to manage. He will be the greatest joke on the…

Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and human rights lawyer has written to the Senate and House of Representatives to oppose the view expressed by a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), as regards the legal status of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Falana in the letter dated 17 October 2024, addressed to the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, disagreed with Agbakoba’s assertion that the EFCC is an “unlawful organization.” The letter read: “Our attention has been drawn to separate letters addressed to the…