YouNewsng Discover. Succeed. Enjoy
President Bola Tinubu has indefinitely suspended the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Rural Electrification Agency, Ahmad Salihijo, alongside three executive directors of the agency, from office. This followed “new findings unearthed during a comprehensive investigation into the financial activities of the Rural Electrification Agency,” the State House revealed in a statement signed by the President’s Special Adviser on Media ...
Crime
March, 2024
-
8 March
Chibok girls tragedy reoccurs, 289 pupils from Kuriga school kidnap !
In what appears like a reenactment of Chibok girls kidnap, Over 280 pupils and teachers of Government Secondary School and LEA primary school at Kuriga, Kaduna State were abducted by bandits on Thursday. Curiously, Kuriga was the same village where a school principal, Idris Sufyan, was killed and his wife kidnapped over a month ago! The bandits YOUNEWS learnt, invaded ...
-
6 March
Ghana Central Bank’s axe falls on GTB, First Bank for infractions
The Bank of Ghana on Monday announced the suspension of the Foreign Exchange Trading Licences of Guaranty Trust Bank Ghana Limited (GTB) and FBNBank Ghana Limited (FBN). The suspension, effective 18 March, will run for one month. According to a statement by the Ghanaian central bank, the suspension is in accordance with section 11 (2) of the Foreign Exchange Act ...
February, 2024
-
25 February
Breaking news : 9 Kidnapped Jehovah’s Witnesses in Kogi released !
All the nine kidnapped Jehovah’s witnesses on their way from Assembly have been released. They were released midnight. They spent few hours over a week in kidnappers’ den. They were abducted Saturday last week. Those kidnapped include two women,( one of them heavily pregnant) four men and two female students. The incident occured last Saturday about 4:30p.m., when tahe passengers ...
-
25 February
APC member, 6 others stampede to death struggling for bags of Rice
For real, thishappened at Yaba Custom office and the man was rushed to Harvey Road Health Center but he did not make it. YOUNEWS also gathered that two women fainted. They were brought back to life by good Samaritans around there. There are claims of a stampede and the loss of lives at the scene by Nigerians The man who ...
-
20 February
Seyi Tinubu tongue lashed for defending Dad’s economic policies
The eldest son of President Bola Tinubu, Mr Seyi Tinubu, on Monday, pleaded with Nigerians to exercise patience with his father’s administration as they weather the challenging economic times. This followed protests in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, where angry youths took to the streets to decry the rising cost of living. More so, a 41-year-old man identified as David ...
-
20 February
9 kidnapped enroute Assembly program,N30m ransom demanded
9 Jehovah Witnesses kidnapped enroute Assembly program,N30m ransom demanded Nine travellers on Kabba-Lokoja Road in Kogi State have been kidnapped. Those kidnapped include two women, four men and two female students. The victims, who were all members of the Jehovah Witness, were said to have taken off from the Kingdom Hall in Kabba. They were kidnapped on their way from ...
-
20 February
Kidnappers hijack Dead body & Family, ask N50m Ransom
A corpse has been kidnapped, along with all the family members conveying it from Lagos to Nsukka in Enugu State. Vanguard reports that the remains of late Mr Ugwuanyi Israel from Ameze Owerre, Umabor community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, was being conveyed home by family members when the kidnappers swooped on them. According to the report, ...
-
16 February
Tinubu set modalities for State Police
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday met with state governors in Abuja during which they considered “the possibility of setting up state police.” Details of the meeting were disclosed by Information Minister Mohammed Idris who addressed journalists after the meeting. “Now, there is also a discussion around the issue of state police. The federal government and the state governments are mulling ...
-
16 February
Ritual syndicate bursted at Atan, Ogun.. C&S prophets arrested
Oluwo Samuel Monday, ‘m’, a.k.a Oluwo Mandela who is allegedly into performance of money ritual known as ‘Oshole’ that can produce N200m within seven days has been arrested Oluwo Mandela, known to be around Igbo-Olomi in Atan Ota, enroute, AUD Primary School, we learnt usually charges the sum of one million naira to prepare the materials for the money ritual. ...
