Anambra State government may clamp a ban on the operation of commercial motorcycles, popularly called Okada, in the state. This is coming at a time the state government has awarded contract for the construction of Uzoakwa-Ubahuekwem-Oseakwa road, with a spur to Oluoha Okechukwu road Ihiala. Revealing this in Awka, at the weekly post-Executive Council Meeting, […]
•Driver granted bail Eldest son of Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, Alhaji Aminu Lamido, is embroiled in another controversy following the death of a middle-aged man who was knocked down by his car. Confirming this, Kano Police Command Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Magaji Magiya, said the accident was reported at […]
From GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri A combined team of the Department of Security Services, popularly called the State Security Services (SSS) and the army has arrested a serving police constable, Matthew Ofurum, in Owerri, the Imo State capital, over alleged involvement in the kidnap of Nollywood actress and Special Assistant to Governor Rochas Okorocha on Public […]
From GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri The abduction of Miss Nkiru Sylvanus, Nollywood actress and the special assistant to Governor Rochas Okorocha on Public Affairs, last December for which the state government reportedly paid a ransom of N8 million to secure her release, may have been an insider job. Daily Sun reliably gathered that Mr. Jerry Okosun, […]
Port Harcourt – Mr Babalola Ogundana, the Controller, Rivers State Command of the Nigerian Prisons, said on Thursday that wardens under his command were not responsible for the impregnation of female inmates. Ogundana told reporters in an interview in Port Harcourt that the affected expectant female prisoners were pregnant before their imprisonments. Investigation reveals that […]
From BAMIGBOLA GBOLAGUNTE, Osogbo No fewer than five goats were yesterday arrested at Dele-Yesa area in Osogbo, the Osun State capital by officials of the state Waste Management Agency (OWMA) for allegedly violating environmental laws. The state Coordinator of the agency, Mr. Henry Ogunbanwo said the goats would be charged to court by the agency […]
Six persons were confirmed dead and four injured in an auto crash on the Lokoja-Abuja Expressway on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Federal Road Safety Corps Sector Commander in Kogi State, Mr. Garba Mohammed, said in Lokoja the accident occurred in Karara village at 11.10am. He said the crash involved a Toyota Corolla […]
An Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta on Tuesday struck out an application by former Governor Gbenga Daniel, seeking the quashing of the land fraud charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Daniel is facing 38 counts of stealing, fraudulent conversion of public lands and diversion of funds, among others in […]
The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday said the first phase of the state Blue Light Rail project would be completed by June this year(2013). He expressed confidence that Lagosians would start enjoying the services of the lrail project immediately. The first phase would run from Marina and terminated at Okokomaiko area in Ojo […]
A former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, on Tuesday described the claim of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson that he inherited a state treasury with N4,451 as the outburst of somebody “troubled by an attack of conscience.” Sylva, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr. Doifie Ola, in Abuja regretted that one year […]
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