Author: Prima News

Operatives of the Kano State Police Command have intercepted a stolen motor vehicle and arrested a suspect in Takai Local Government Area of the state. A statement on Friday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Abdullahi Kiyawa, said the interception of the stolen vehicle and subsequent arrest of the suspect followed a swift intelligence-led response to a distress call. “On May 12, 2026, at about 1654hrs, the Kano State Police Command received a distress call through its emergency line, 08032419754, reporting that a silver Pontiac Vibe motor vehicle with registration number KMC 928 LK had been stolen in Kaduna…

May 16, 2026 03:25 GMT (UK), by Ketan Patel Moreira: departing Lyon for Premier League challenge Chelsea are being linked with a summer move for Afonso Moreira, with the Lyon winger emerging as another young attacking talent on the club’s radar. The 21-year-old Portuguese forward has enjoyed a strong breakthrough season in France and is starting to attract serious Premier League attention. Chelsea have built much of their recruitment model around identifying players before they become impossible to sign, and Moreira fits that idea perfectly. He is quick, technical, left-sided and still developing, but already producing enough end product to…

Canadian rapper Drake has dropped a new album, with two more surprise companion albums to boot — a whopping 43 tracks that stretch over nearly two and a half hours. Drake — who has kept a relatively low profile since his diss battle with Kendrick Lamar ended with the American’s knockout blow “Not Like Us” and his lawsuit against his own label was dismissed — had announced the Friday release of “Iceman.” But along with it came “Habibti” and “Maid of Honour.” Future, 21 Savage and Sexyy Red are among the artists who were invited to collaborate with the chart-topping…

By Toheeb Omotayo The Kwara State Government has warned residents against indiscriminate dumping of refuse on road medians and other unauthorized locations across the state, saying the practice poses serious environmental and health risks capable of triggering disease outbreaks. According to a statement issued on Friday by the Press Secretary of the Ministry, Muritala Shakirat, the warning was given by the Commissioner for Environment, Nafisat Buge, during a review of reports submitted by Environmental Health Officers and members of the ministry’s task force. The commissioner said the renewed enforcement drive was necessary to improve public health, prevent flooding caused by…

As part of his push to drive industrial transformation in Ogun State, the Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has launched a two-pronged strategy to achieve 24-hour electricity supply: building independent power plants and carrying out a comprehensive electricity consumption audit. The goal is to cut industrial costs, eliminate outages, and ensure no community is underserved. The cornerstone is the Ogun State Light-Up Project. The first phase is a 30-megawatt plant located in Onijanganjangan, near Ewekoro, Abeokuta. During an inspection penultimate week, the Governor confirmed that turbines were being installed and the control room and installed equipment were ready for testing. He…

Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as from strategic and institutional investors for his three — and counting — startups. If the latest $400 million raise for his new venture Mind Robotics is an indicator, investors are still happily piling in. Outsized raises for newly minted startups have become more common in recent years. But those hundred-million-plus seed rounds have generally been reserved for buzzy defense tech…

The Oyo State Police Command said it has launched an intensive manhunt and rescue operation following a coordinated attack by armed hoodlums on schools and surrounding communities in Oriire Local Government Area of the state. According to a statement issued on Friday by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Ayanlade Olayinka, the attack occurred in the early hours of May 15, 2026, and led to the death of an assistant headmaster. The police said preliminary investigation showed that the attackers, who operated on motorcycles, simultaneously invaded Baptist Nursery and Primary School, Yawota, as well as Community Grammar School/L. A Primary School, Esiele,…

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday said Nigeria is on course to attract close to $20 billion in foreign direct investment in 2026 alone. He attributed the figure to his administration’s systematic removal of regulatory bottlenecks, macroeconomic stabilisation, and transparency reforms. Tinubu stated this while making a case for African self-reliance and continental resource integration at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda. Speaking on a presidential panel moderated by British journalist Zainab Badawi alongside Gabonese President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Tinubu asserted that Africa must refuse to export raw materials while importing finished products. He also argued that the continent…

There are many endearing aspects of the Igbo business culture. But few, in my opinion, are more endearing than the apprenticeship system. It is a system that teaches and then empowers. The two most important requisites in successful entrepreneurship are knowledge and finance. The Igbo apprenticeship system provides both. This system, which has become a case study in many business schools the world over, has made billionaires out of enterprising young men and women who might otherwise have amounted to very little in life. It has also led to the dominance of its graduates in certain key areas of the economy. It…

​An outbreak of the highly infectious Ebola virus disease​ has been reported in Uganda, following the deaths of scores of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo​. ​The Ugandan ⁠health ministry, per Reuters, ​said the ⁠patient died in intensive care on ⁠May 14 after ⁠developing hemorrhagic symptoms​. ​The case ‌was ⁠an imported infection from the ​D​RC. ​On Friday,​ the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced a new Ebola outbreak in the remote Ituri province in Congo. Nearly 250 suspected cases of the virus and 65 deaths have been reported in the Central African nation, recorded mostly…