The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has dismissed claims suggesting that Niger Insurance Plc has resumed operations, insisting that the company remains under receivership and warning the public against dealing with individuals purporting to act as its management. In a public notice issued on Thursday seen by THE WHISTLER, the insurance regulator described a publication by…
ACCRA, Ghana, July 17, 2026/APO Group/ — Work has resumed on a multipurpose laboratory at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Sokode Campus, reflecting President John Dramani Mahama’s “Reset Agenda”. At the centre of this effort is the renewed drive to complete the university’s 5,300-square-metre Laboratory Complex. The project, which began in 2014,…
Oregon and Washington joined a broader legal challenge to the Trump administration’s pause on new wind energy approvals, arguing the freeze threatens planned projects, grid reliability and state clean-energy mandates. In 2025, Washington state generated the most hydroelectric power compared to any other state, accounting for 85% of its renewable power — with wind at…
By Lawrence Agbo A High Court in Awka, Anambra State, has convicted popular spiritualist Onyebuchi Okocha, widely known as Onyeze Jesus, for engaging in fraudulent spiritual practices prohibited under the state’s Homeland Security Law. The court sentenced the controversial spiritualist to six years’ imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₦20 million after finding him guilty…
The Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Court of Appeal that nullified the forfeiture of assets linked to former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, restoring an earlier judgment that permanently vested the properties in the Federal Government. In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, a five-member panel of…
Screenshot from a video shared by US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on X. The United States military has destroyed a surveillance tower at Iran’s Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port on the Gulf of Oman, which it said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had used for decades to track and target commercial vessels transiting the Strait…
