Press Release Governor Akpabio bags Methodist Award The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio has bagged the Golden Impact Award of the Methodist Church in Nigeria. The award was bestowed on him by the Prelate of the Methodist Church, His Eminence, Dr Sunday Ola Makinde during the 170th anniversary of the Church […]
By Paul I. Adujie Esq., | New York, NY | Oct. 8, 2012 | As I wrote to complain and gripe about the traffic mayhem and gridlocks on Nigerian roads last week, and more particularly so, about the traffic standstill in Choba Port Harcourt, a bridge on a major road artery in Port Harcourt actually […]
New Chief of Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim | credits: nanngronline.com OPERATIVES of the Joint Task Force, made up of soldiers, on Monday went haywire in Maiduguri, Borno State, and killed 30 persons in reprisal for the attack on their patrol vehicle in the town. Most of the victims, The PUNCH learnt, were civilians. […]
Nigerians outraged by the lynching of four University of Port Harcourt undergraduates in Aluu, Rivers State, have launched an online campaign to have the killers identified and punished. Although it was learnt that the community has been deserted following the arrest of the village head, Alhaji Hassan Walewa, and 13 others by the police, users […]
The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, Akwa Ibom State Command, has arrested 33 persons for allegedly possessing illicit drugs. The suspects comprise 29 men and four women. It was learnt that the suspects were arrested at different times in September by the agency’s operatives. The state commander of the NDLEA, Mrs. Ruth Obi, who […]
Some youths on Saturday in Enugu, Enugu State sacked a political meeting that was to be addressed by the former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Kalu. The PUNCH learnt that Kalu had planned to use the platform to address some Igbo youths and women leaders on his plans for 2015 general elections. Justifying the […]
The World Igbo Youth Council on Sunday berated the Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, over his comment that the South-East zone does not deserve an extra state. The WIYC said Kwankwaso’s comment was against the principles of the 2005 National Confab where Nigerians agreed to the creation of an additional state for the South-East. The […]
FOLLOWING the lynching of four students of the University of Port Harcourt, River State, the police have arrested Aluu community leader, Alhaji Hassan Walewa. The police on Sunday morning stormed Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area, where the students were beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob. Our correspodents report that both the […]
The Mimiko Campaign Organisation (MCO), Saturday, alleged the plan by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to bring Tokyo, the factional leader of the Oyo State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) into Ondo state ahead of the gubernatorial election slated for October 20. In a statement by the MCO’s Director of Publicity and Media […]
By Dayo Johnson THE leader of ex-militants in the riverine communities of Ondo State, High Chief Bibopiri Ajube, has endorsed Governor Olusegun Mimiko for second term. Ajube, popularly known as “shoot at sight”, also expressed concern over the alleged politicising of the amnesty programme in the state. Speaking with newsmen in Akure, the ex-militant leader […]
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