From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt The Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, has again hit the Supervising Minister of Education, Barr. Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, describing him as arrogant and ungrateful. Amaechi stated this yesterday, at the thanksgiving service held in honour of the Senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, in Bera, […]
The Cross River Government said on Wednesday that none of its villages were illegally annexed by Cameroon on the orders of the Nigeria-Cameroon boundary demarcation officials. The Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Liyel Imoke, Mr Christian Ita, told newsmen in Calabar that the speculation was untrue. He, however, said that a pillar on the boundary between […]
Militants The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta said on Sunday that its fighters attacked two police gunboats at Peremabiri, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The group said the gunboats were escorting a former militant leader, Mr. Eris Paul, popularly known as Ogunboss. MEND said Ogunboss, other ex-militant leaders and […]
… on Sunday | credits: Odutayo Odusanya Two Islamic clerics lost their lives on Saturday after their jeep collided with a bus and plunged into a canal at the Iyana Ipaja end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. PUNCH Metro learnt that the victims, Alhaji Akinsola Al-Ameen and Muyideen Thiamiyu, were coming back from Ikorodu when their […]
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service says it has sealed eight more companies for failing to remit N66.7 million personal income tax of their workers to the state government. Folasade Coker-Afolayan, the Head of the Distrain Unit of the LIRS, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos that the companies were sealed […]
From TUNDE OMOLEHIN, Sokoto Former Sokoto State governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has assured President Goodluck Jonathan of his support if he decides to contest in the 2015 presidential election. Bafarawa told the President in Sokoto yesterday at a grand reception organised to formally welcome him and his teeming supporters to the party fold. He said the […]
Happenings in Enugu State will never stop attracting the attention of most political observers from the South East zone and beyond because that is where democracy has most concrete dividends to flaunt, especially since these seven years of Sullivan Chime’s administration. Even those of us who do not claim direct indigeneship of that state, find […]
…Claims he committed suicide From TUNDE RAHEEM AkureThe cat has been let out of the bag for Mrs Rukayat Osisi who claimed that Awwal Osisi, her 12-year-old stepson hanged himself. Neighbours who witnessed how she tortured the boy to death exposed the heinous act. Rukayyat was detained at the homicide section of the State Central […]
By Mohammed Idris On Monday, January 27, 2014, while watching the Channels prime news at 10pm on the 12th anniversary of the Ikeja Cantonment disaster when high caliber bombs went off from the armory following a fire at the nearby “mammy market” and killed some 1000 compatriots, I was at once filled with disgust and […]
From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa An ex-militant leader, Eris Paul ( a.k.a Ogunboss) and 20 policemen escaped death yesterday when they were attacked by armed men at Peremabiri in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The policemen in two gunboats were detailed by the state Commissioner of Police, Hillary Okpara, to escort the ex-militant […]
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