The House of Representatives has appealed to the military, urging them to refrain from retaliating against innocent residents of Delta State following the murder of 17 military personnel in Okuama, a community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. The appeal was made while considering a motion of urgent national importance presented by…
The South East Zonal Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday, ratified the suspension of Mrs Ginika Tor by the Enugu State chapter of the party. This was disclosed in a statement personally signed by Dr. Ijeomah Arodiogbu, National Vice Chairman APC South East, made available to journalists in Enugu on Tuesday….
Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the state, Monday Okpebholo showed great wisdom and foresight in picking Dennis Idahosa, as his running mate. Oshiomhole also congratulated Okpebholo for emerging as the APC’s governorship candidate in Edo State. He also urged the candidate to set aside the…
Troops from Combat Team 3 stationed in Maraban Maigora in Katsina State on Monday rescued 10 women and six minors who were kidnapped by bandits on February 3, 2024. A reliable source from the military said the victims were rescued during a routine patrol at Rimi community after being held by their abductors for 46…
The suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof Cyril Ndifon, has alleged that the lawyer representing the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, is not registered to practice in Nigeria. He told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that this contravened Section 2 of the Legal Practitioners Act which…
Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has disclosed that the refinery in Kaduna State will be ready for production by December 2024. He disclosed this during a meeting with the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria and the Major Energy Marketers Association of Nigeria in Abuja. He…
Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has emphasized the need to create state police, saying vigilantes are ill-equipped to face bandits who carry sophisticated weapons. He made this statement while speaking during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday monitored by DopeTV, calling for the establishment of state police to fight bandits. This…
Farmers under the aegis of Cocoa and Plantain Farmers Association of Nigeria, CPFAN, have called on President Bola Tinubu to find urgent solutions to the incessant bandits attacks.The group lamented that countless numbers of farmers have lost their lives and many have been kidnapped on their farms after bandits attacks across the country. The National…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State, Stanley Ekezie, says the prevailing economic hardship across Nigeria is due to the choice the electorate made in the last general election. Ekezie stated this in an interview with newsmen in Owerri, the state capital, adding that Nigerians collected peanuts from politicians in exchange…
A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of the Head of Stakeholders Unit of the Federal Inland Revenue Services, FIRS, Emmanuella Eteta Ita, on Monday, told Justice Giwa Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court in Abuja, how Ita siphoned and diverted large sums of money meant for stakeholders’ assignments to her private school, Surestart School…
