Ex-Editor’s Abducted Family Regain Freedom, Ransom Unknown
The three kidnapped family members of Ahmed Ajobe, a former editor with Daily Trust, have regained freedom, FIJ can confirm. A source told FIJ that they regained freedom on Sunday…
After FIJ’s Story, Air Peace Compensates Stranded Passengers With 50% Discount
Air Peace has approved a 50% one-way discount on any of its domestic routes to compensate passengers of Flight P47173, which was originally scheduled from Benin to Lagos on November…
InDrive Tells Customer to ‘Wait Until Driver Turns His Phone on’ 2 Weeks After iPhone Theft
Eniola Odugbesan, a Lagos-based gadgets vendor, sent an iPhone 7 through Victor Ugochukwu Odionyema, an InDrive driver, from Ikeja to Akoka on November 4, but the recipient has yet to…
Cameroon Detains Five Nigerian Pastors Over Officials’ Abduction
The Cameroonian government has arrested and detained five Nigerian pastors and some other residents living in the country’s Idabato II region, formerly known as the Bakassi Peninsula. According to The…
Hectares and Homes Ltd. Withholds Ibadan Man’s N6m Investment for 13 Months
Olumuyiwa Ogundele, a resident of Ibadan in Oyo State, has yet to receive his N5 million capital and N1 million interest being withheld by Hectares and Homes Nigeria Limited more…
Kidnappers Hold Kaduna Corps Member to N500m Ransom
Aisha Shittu, a corps member posted to Kaduna State by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), was kidnapped from her apartment in the third week of November. FIJ learnt on…
VIDEO: Edo Policeman Threatens to Shoot Man Under Cover of Darkness
A policeman threatened to shoot a man he was having an argument with while owing to accuse the man of being a cultist without proof in a recently shared clip.…
After FIJ’s Story, Ecobank Returns Nigerian Businessman’s N1.8m
Ecobank has returned N1.8 million to Olawale Akintola, a South Africa-based Nigerian businessman, who erroneously transferred the sum to an account belonging to one of the financial institution’s customers in…
REPORT: More Nigerians Insecure About Food Compared to 2019
Nigerians are more insecure about where their next meal will come from compared to five years ago, a report published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday shows.…
After FIJ’s Story, Interior Ministry Revises Figures, Pledges to Free 47,500 Inmates
The Ministry of Interior has revised its 2024 pledge to decongest prisons in Nigeria, taking the number down from a previously impossible 170,500 to 47,500. This development comes weeks after…