Flashback News

09/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/09/tinubu-blackmailed-into-approving-cybersecurity-levy-policy-dikwa/

Elder Statesman and Dean of Borno Elders Forum, Prof. Khalifa Dikwa, had said that President Bola Tinubu’s administration was blackmailed into approving the cybersecurity levy policy initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Dikwa made this statement in an interview on Channels Television on ...

09/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/09/man-who-vandalised-lagos-3rd-mainland-bridge-in-police-net/

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 46-year-old man for allegedly vandalising the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, 34 days after it was reopened following rehabilitation. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos. ...

09/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/09/native-doctor-2-others-arrested-for-kidnapping-killing-19-year-old-undergraduate-in-edo/

The Edo State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old native doctor, Chukwuyem Jonah, and two others for the alleged killing of one Miss Faith Omodon, a 200-level student of Delta State University, Agbor, Delta State. flashback news reports that the State Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye, d...

08/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/08/microsoft-to-shut-down-west-africa-operation-in-nigeria/

In a major blow to Nigeria's tech sector, reports suggest that Microsoft is considering shutting its African Development Centre based in Lagos.   This move, if confirmed, would mean that at least 200 staff would be out of a job.   It would also have profound implications for the country’s techno...

08/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/08/gunmen-abduct-13-in-abuja-community-demand-n900m-ransom/

Gunmen have kidnapped 13 persons in Piko, a remote community in the Bwari area council of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.   It was gathered that the incident which occurred on Sunday, May 5, 2024, lasted for over an hour, without any challenge from either the vigilante group or other security a...

08/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/08/bayelsa-man-40-found-dead-in-a-brothel/

The co**se of a man said to be a father of 12 children has been found in a brothel on Tombia-Amossoma Road in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.   According to the residents of the area, the deceased who hailed from Delta State, left home around 8am on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, for the brothel.   He was later fo...

08/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/08/cbn-relaxes-restriction-on-repatriation-of-fx-proceeds-by-oil-firms/

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has relaxed its initial restriction on the repatriation of forex proceeds by international oil firms operating in the country. In a circular dated May 6, 2024 signed by the Director, Trade and Exchange Department, Hassan Mahmud, the apex bank said oil firms can now....

07/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/07/you-dont-exist-i-can-de-recognize-you-fubara-blasts-rivers-lawmakers/

Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State on Monday lashed out at members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, saying they do not exist. Fubara said the Peace Accord he signed with his predecessor, Minister of the Federal Capital Terrritory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, was political, hence he can derecognize them...

07/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/07/tinubu-tackling-bulk-of-nigerias-challenges-omo-agege/

The immediate past deputy Senate president, Ovie Omo-Agege, has said that President Bola Tinubu has tackled the ‘bulk’ of Nigeria’s challenges. He made this statement over the weekend while briefing newsmen in Effurun, Delta State. He expressed confidence in Tinubu’s ability to turn around t...

06/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/06/concerns-as-gas-tanker-explosions-claim-13-lives-many-properties-in-one-week/

06/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/06/lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-tinubus-personal-interest-behind-hasty-project-atiku/

The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday said the Nigerian Government was “solely expediting action on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway due to the business ties between President Bola Tinubu and Gilbert Chagoury, the owner of Hitech.” Chagoury is...

06/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/06/terrorists-explosion-devices-kill-seven-civilians-in-borno/

Another Improvised Explosive Device, IED, planted along Maiduguri-Dikwa-Gamboru Ngala road has killed seven people, including a telecommunication expert, Mallam Abbashuwa Bulamarwa. It was gathered that the incident happened over the weekend, when their vehicles drove on the planted IED in-between D...

06/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/06/edo-police-re-arrest-prisoner-who-escaped-from-jail-during-endsars-protest/

06/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/06/no-political-crisis-in-rivers-says-fubara/

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has dismissed any notion of political crisis in the oil-rich state, saying his administration has provided focused leadership and governance to the people. Fubara, who received members of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions at Governme...

05/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/05/attack-on-female-nurse-masquerades-banned-indefinitely-in-nsukka/

Following the recent brutal attack on a female nurse, the activities of masquerades have been suspended indefinitely in the nine communities that make up Nsukka town, in Enugu State. flashback news recalls that a nurse, who was heading to duty call, was last Sunday beaten to a pulp by a horde of mas...

05/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/05/former-bank-manager-bags-121-years-jail-over-n112m-fraud/

The former manager, First City Monument Bank, FCMB, Onitsha branch, Nwachukwu Placidus, has been sentenced to a cumulative of 121 years in prison for diverting fixed deposit funds of a customer to the tune of N112,100,000 (One Hundred and Twelve Million, One Hundred Thousand Naira only) for his pers...

05/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/05/police-nab-man-for-alleged-sexual-assault-on-one-year-old-stepdaughter/

Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command have arrested a man over alleged sexual assault on his infant stepdaughter Thirty-year-old Idi Adamu allegedly assaulted his one-year-old stepchild sexually.   In a statement on Friday, the Command said that Adamu was arrested on Wednesday, following a...

04/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/04/establishment-of-criminality-did-not-allow-inec-server-work-peter-obi/

Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, said it was the ‘establishment of criminality’ that made the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, servers not work during the last presidential election. Obi, who insisted that the people must one day make it to wor...

04/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/04/akpata-berates-obaseki-for-swearing-in-only-five-of-eight-recommended-judges/

The Labour Party candidate for the Edo State governorship elections, Olumide Akpata, has condemned the decision of Governor Godwin Obaseki to swear in only five out of the eight new judges recommended for the Edo State High Court by the National Judicial Council (NJC). In a statement he personally s...

04/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/04/bandits-raid-katsina-community-kill-24-persons/

At least twenty four persons are said to have been killed and several others wounded in a fresh bandits attack on Unguwar Sarkin Noma Community in Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State. Those killed were mostly vigilante members who reportedly came out to confront the bandits. Local Security...

03/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/03/alleged-mastermind-of-abuja-kaduna-train-attack-moniker-mandi-arrested/

Police have arrested the alleged mastermind of the killing of passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna train. The incident happened in March 2022. The mastermind was Identified as Ibrahim Abdullahi, also known by the ominous moniker of Mandi. The Police Public Relations Officer in Kaduna, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejob...

03/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/03/tinubu-should-reward-best-performing-ministers-sack-those-not-doing-well-nwosu-apc-chieftain/

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ugwumba Uche Nwosu, has advocated the introduction of a reward system aimed at promoting excellence among Nigerian ministers, towards ensuring the delivery of dividends of democracy to the citizens. Nwosu, a former Chief of Staff to the Governor of....

03/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/03/delta-lady-who-dumped-baby-inside-well-will-be-charged-for-infanticide-police/

Delta State Commissioner of Police Abaniwonda Olufemi has confirmed that the 24-year-old lady who dumped her one-and-half-year-old baby inside the well has been arrested over a case of infanticide. The suspect, Sofia Nkwor, from Nsien, Ndokwa East LGA, committed the crime on April 28, 2024, along th...

03/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/03/momodu-accuses-apc-of-plotting-to-destabilise-pdp/

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has blamed all issues facing the party on an alleged attempt by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to destabilise the opposition. Momodu, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, accused the ruling ...

02/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/02/ebonyi-governor-announces-n10000-addition-to-workers-salary/

The Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru, has again awarded additional N10,000 to the salary of the state workers. The governor made the pronouncement during the 2024 workers day celebration held at Pa Oruta Ngele Stadium in Abakaliki, the state capital. Recall that in July 2023, barely one mon...

01/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/01/fuel-scarcity-motorists-commuters-stranded-in-abuja-other-cities/

Commuters in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, and other cities across the country have bemoaned the hike in transportation fares owing to the current fuel scarcity. flashback reports that queues have worsened in many filling stations across the country, with Abuja as one of the worst hit a...

01/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/01/electricity-tariff-hike-minister-of-power-has-failed-nigerians-femi-falana/

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has criticized the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, over “failure to deliver a constant supply of electricity despite increasing tariffs.”   The National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had increased the tariff paid by Band A customers from N68/KWh t...

01/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/01/%e2%82%a6200bn-debt-petrol-marketers-threaten-withdrawal-of-services-amid-fuel-scarcity/

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has threatened to cripple the supply of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, over non-payment of ₦200bn bridging claims. The threat comes following current nationwide scarcity which has seen prices of Premium Motor Sp...

01/05/2024

https://flashbacknews.org/2024/05/01/fg-approves-pay-increase-for-civil-servants-on-consolidated-salary-structures/

The Federal Government has approved a salary increase of between 25% and 35% for civil servants on the remaining six Consolidated Salary Structures. This move is coming on the eve of the 2024 Workers’ Day event and is contained in a Tuesday statement by the Head of Press at the National Salaries, ...