Benue Security Chief Denied Mass Killings. Terrorists Responded With Community Massacre 2 Days Later
Terrorists have killed at least a dozen residents barely 48 hours after Jacob Gbamwuam, the director general of the Bureau of Homeland Security in Benue State, sat before cameramen and…
5 Years After Chevron Oil Fire Burnt Ojuimole for 90 Days, Residents’ Water Kills Fishes
In April 2019, an oil explosion that caused a 90-day blaze disrupted the quietness of Ojuimole, an ancient oil mining community in Ilaje, Ondo State. The explosion came from an…
UPDATED: Hackers Take Over Premium Times’ X Account
The X account of Premium Times, a Nigerian online newspaper, was hacked on Wednesday, FIJ has learnt. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, sometime after 5 am, the page…
Aero Contractors Still With Civil Servant’s N69,000 for Flight Cancelled 10 Months Ago
Aishat Arinola (pseudonym), a civil servant living in Katsina State, has narrated to FIJ how Nigerian commercial airline Aero Contractors cancelled her flight and failed to refund her N69,000 10…
Edwin Clark: An Enduring Niger Delta Voice
Edwin Clark’s family announced the elder statesman’s death on Monday night. The nonagenarian was a loud and enduring voice against decades of environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region of…
EKEDC Disregards NERC’s Order Against Illegal Deductions From Customer’s Bill
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has continued to disregard a subsisting order by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) from December directing it to discontinue deducting from electricity bill…
INTERVIEW: How Assassins Disguised As Worshippers Murdered Yomi Adetula, the Witness Who Was to Testify Against IBD Dende
On January 19, assassins numbering at least four murdered Yomi Ojonla Adetula, the director, Anti-Arms Smuggling of the Social Orientation and Safety (So-Safe) Corps in Ogun State, at his church…
FLASHBACK: In 2016, Spokesman ‘BrightGoldenBoy’ Lamented ‘Bribes for Promotion’ in Police
Over the past few days, controversy has rocked the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) after several policemen revealed to FIJ that the force’s administrative department demanded N10,000 from each of them…
Family Buries Council Chair Remi Abass Killed in Osun LG Crisis
Remi Abass, the reinstated Chairman of Irewole Local Government, Osun State, has been buried according to Islamic rites. Abass’ body was laid to rest at his family house in Ile-Sagba,…
FEMICIDE EPIDEMIC: Men Kill 22 Women, Girls in 7 Weeks
Yetunde Hafsoh Lawal, a 23-year-old final-year student at Kwara State College of Education, went missing on February 10. Days later, the police found her dismembered body in a bowl in…