President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday said he would not interfere with the administration of Bayelsa State and promised to allow Governor Seriake Dickson and his team use their initiatives in running the affairs of the state. The President spoke at the state congress of the Peoples Democratic Party which was held at the Peace Park, […]
Unknown gunmen on Thursday night attacked Kafuru village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing about 10 residents. Among the dead were a pastor whose wife was also shot and left for dead. The Assemblies of God Church where the pastor was ministering was razed by the gunmen along with about nine other […]
ago Font size: Late Chief Oluwole Olumide Why would a successful architect and businessman take his own life? This was one of the questions triggered yesterday by the dead in Abeokuta of Chief Oluwole Olumide, described as a close political and business associate of the immediate past governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. […]
• The smouldering tanker at the scene of the fire disaster at Igwuruta junction, Port Harcourt , yesterday • 25 houses, four vehicles also burnt • Six fire fighters attacked, hospitalised A family of four -father, mother, and two children- was burnt to death at their Port Harcourt residence yesterday in an early morning petrol […]
By JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU, Calabar ABOUT 35 persons suspected to be members of secret cults that have been terrorizing residents of Calabar, the Cross River state capital for five days have been arrested by the state Police Command. Besides, over 10 suspected cultists and innocent residents of the area have been feared dead in the renewed […]
Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson on Thursday said he inherited an empty treasury from the Timipre Sylva administration. Dickson alleged that Sylva left “heavy and intimidating debt portfolios” for his administration to service. The governor, who spoke in the Banquet Hall, Yenagoa, during his maiden monthly press conference stated that the figure of the debt […]
IT is no longer news that hotels in Nigeria are about the most expensive in the world. Many factors have been attributed to this. The factors are numerous. They range from the challenge on providing security to electricity. It is no longer news that the country is in total or partial darkness depending on the […]
March 14, 2012 by Kunle Falayi 37 Comments The brutality ascribed to officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority still persists as a man, Chudi Obiefuna, was on Monday brutalised by a combined team of LASTMA officials and riot policemen in the Ijeshatedo area of Lagos. An unidentified man, who intervened by explaining that […]
ABOUT four people were feared killed by rival cult groups in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, in the last three days. The activities of the cult groups have created fears in the minds of residents of the state. The state governor, Liyel Imoke, had in the last four years tried to stamp out cultism in the […]
Federal Government has approved the setting up of central military commands in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. THE PUNCH learnt that the nation’s service chiefs took the decision after assessing the economic importance of the state to the country and the rising activities of cultists and pirates. Also, there has been a resurgence of violence in the […]
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