There was tension among motorists and pedestrians on Wednesday evening when officers of the Mobile Police and a Navy personnel engaged in a gun battle in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. It was gathered that both men of the Force showed their supremacy in a gun duel, which left many people scampering to safety…
Operatives of the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday invaded the Borno State House of Assembly and sealed it. Some members of the Assembly were also reportedly arrested by the anti-graft agency and taken away in their vehicles. It was gathered that the Assembly was sealed over an alleged fraud. It was also…
Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya has stressed the need for media practitioners to be thorough and be armed with accurate facts and figures in their investigative journalism. He also asked them to always project the image of the State in its true perspective to counter the negative picture being presented…
An aide to the Commissioner of Police, Railway Command, Lagos State, identified as Agu, has been accused of having a forceful carnal knowledge of a lady. The victim was also said to have passed out after the suspect beat her to coma and still went ahead to sleep with her afterwards. According to a report…
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has hailed the late Olubadan, Oba Samuel Odulana, who joined his ancestors on Tuesday at his palace in Ibadan, the state capital. He promised to give the late monarch a befitting burial. Ajimobi, during the official notification of the passage of late Odulana, described him as an accomplished all-rounder…
Managing Director of the Enugu State Waste Management Authority, ESWAMA, Dominic Okonkwo, has been told to appear before the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, on January 28, 2016, to answer a case of assault against him and his agency. It was alleged that officials of ESWAMA assaulted and caused bodily harms to the duo of…
By Fidel Njamanze Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya, Tuesday spoke on the problem of imposition in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, urging members to join him to reform the party. “It is a historic challenge which we must rise to confront squarely,” he said at the maiden tripartite meeting of…
Last Sunday, members of a Celestial Church of Christ on Unity Street in Abule-Egba, Lagos, were left in shock when their pastor informed them that God spoke to him to set one of them ablaze to show His might. One of them identified as Madam Abosede, who agreed to be used to ‘confirm’ that God…
Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday, launched the ‘School Feeding Programme’ in public primary schools in the state. The programme is aimed at providing free one meal per day to about 1.5 million pupils public schools in Kaduna State. At the kick-off ceremony held at the Aliyu Makama Primary School, the governor expressed…
No fewer than two persons were said to have lost their lives on Monday when members of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, staged a protest in Aba, Abia State on Monday. The demonstration was to call for the release of the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is also is the Director of Radio Biafra.…