The Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, on Sunday, gave a marching order to security agencies in the state to ensure that criminal elements disrupting the peace of the state are fished out and brought to justice. The governor’s order came on the heels of gunmen’s attack on Terwase Orbunde, the Chief of Staff…
The Nigerian Copyright Commission has seized three shipping containers of 3,000 cartons of pirated books with a conservative market value of over N300m. The Director-General of the commission, Dr John Asein, disclosed this in a press statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday. Asein said the containers were intercepted…
GOVERNMENTS and security agencies in the South-West states have beefed up security around government structures and institutions, with machinery put in place to forestall the breakdown of law and order by any group forcing an agenda on the states. Also, security agencies have warned that they would curtail any form of insecurity, adding that anyone…
NOT less than 19 persons lost their lives in an auto crash that occurred on the Oyo-Ogbomoso Road on Sunday. The fatal crash was said to have been caused by a driver who drove against traffic, causing a head-on collision between a Toyota Hiace Bus registered as NTT52ZY and a Toyota Corolla salon car. According…
THE governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party during the 2021 Anambra State governorship election, Mr Valentine Ozigbo, has vowed to unseat the Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, in the governorship election in the state in 2025. Ozigbo, now a Labour Party aspirant for the Anambra State governorship election, said this when he and…
Advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has urged President Bola Tinubu to release to it copies of the loan agreements obtained by the governments of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, the late Umaru Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari. It also called on the President to make public “the spending details of any such loans…
RIVERS State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said the real people with integrity and character are solidly standing by his administration, adding that the backing by the former governor, Dr Peter Odili, is giving his detractors high blood pressure. Odili had last Thursday declared Fubara as the political leader of Rivers State, saying the people believed…
Operations conducted by the air component of Operation Delta Safe have led to the destruction of seven illegal refining sites at different locations in Rivers State. Equally, a total of four boats loaded with illegally refined products heading southwards were bombed by military aircraft deployed for the operations. In a statement on Sunday, the Director…
The rivalry between the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesome Wike, has become heightened ahead of the 98th National Executive Committee meeting of the party. One of the major issues likely to take centre stage at the NEC meeting scheduled for Thursday,…
Nigerians have called on the Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja, Paul Enenche, to apologise to a member of his church who was publicly embarrassed and accused of dishonesty during a testimony session. A video that went viral on Sunday showed Enenche questioning the credibility of the woman’s testimony at his church in…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural orgnanisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Sunday, lauded the 700km Lagos-Calabar coastal road project estimated to cost N15trn. The organisation, in a statement by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, however, called on the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and other key players to focus on the positive economic impact…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has ordered a painstaking investigation into the death of a hotel manager in Abia State, Achimugu Etubi. Some personnel of the Nigerian Army were said to have brutally tortured Etubi, which resulted in his death. This was after a Nigerian Air Force cadet, Emmanuel Onyemereche, reportedly…