Commercial banks in Ondo State yesterday embarked on ‘seat at work strike’ in some parts of the state following the incessant robbery attacks on some banks. Some of the banks in Akure had last Friday started the strike as they tactically turned back customers under the pretence of having privileged information that armed robbers were […]
Three people were killed and several others injured Saturday night when three television-viewing centers on Bauchi Ring Road in Jos, Plateau State were blown off during the Barcelona-Real Madrid match. The three viewing centers built with corrugated iron sheets, with capacity to accommodate between 500 and 1000 viewers were located at Tina Junction, another one […]
There is anxiety in the camp of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Henry Seriake Dickson, over the emergence of his running mate, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah (retd). The brewing crisis is being compounded by moves by Governor Timipre Sylva’s loyalists to frustrate the candidature of Dickson by bombarding the […]
FOLLOWING Saturday night’s bomb explosions at three viewing centres in Jos, Plateau State, leading to the death of three persons, most churches on Sunday were deserted with the fear that the situation might snowball into another round of crisis. There was also the fear that such explosive devices might have been planted in places of […]
By Emma Amaize, South Regional Editor, Godwin Oghre & SusanEdeh *One injured *It’s not bomb – Police *Blast targeted at worshippers – Chief Imam *Gunmen attack Bauchi police station The people of Sapele, the center of the Nigerian timber industry, in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, were jolted from sleep at about 5.30 […]
KANO – (AFP) – An explosion killed an unclear number of people and caused panic in the northern city of Kaduna on Wednesday, residents and police said, but initial indications showed it was accidental. “Initially, we thought it was a bomb blast, but our preliminary assessment has shown that it was an accidental explosion from […]
By OLASUNKANMI AKONI & MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO BADAGRY— No fewer than 12 pupils narrowly escaped death, yesterday, at Igborosun, near Badagry, Lagos, when a portion of a building in a government-owned school collapsed on them. Vanguard gathered that the portion of the building on the premises of Saint Paul’s Anglican Primary School, Igborosun, collapsed at 10 […]
By GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO—The on-going trial of the Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, Oba Adebukola Alli, over the alleged rape of a female member of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, Miss Hellen Okpara, was Tuesday stalled following the inability of the state Prosecutor Mr. Abiodun Badiora, to present witnesses […]
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru CALABAR—Akamkpa community in Cross River State has decried the deplorable state of the abandoned Akamkpa-Nsan-Oban road, which links Nigeria and Cameroon, and called on the member representing Biase/Akamkpa Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr Daniel Asuquo, to lobby those concerned to ensure that contract on the road was re-arwarded. Apart […]
UMUAHIA, Residents of Umuahia and environs have been thrown into darkness since Dec. 1, following a clash between some uniformed men and PHCN workers. Investigations showed that the affected areas were: Ndume, Olokoro, Ibeku, Ossai, Amakama and Ubakala in Umuahia North and South local government areas. The blackout followed the Dec. 1 invasion of PHCN […]
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