By BARBARA KALU, Awka – Anambra State Police Command has recovered three more bodies from the boat mishap that occurred on Wednesday, in Anam community, Anambra West Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said this in a statement in Awka on...
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Gunmen have kidnapped a reporter with Channels Television, Joshua Rogers, at his residence in Rumuosi, Obio/Akpor area of Rivers State. . The Police spokeswoman, Rivers State Command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday, said the reporter was abducted in the late...
The Olubadan-in-Council has certified the Olubadan designate, High Chief Owolabi Olakulehin to ascend the throne as Olubadan of Ibadanland. The Olubadan-in-Council made the declaration at the end of a special meeting with the Olubadan-designate at Oja-Oba palace of Olubadan on Friday in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports...
Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf has said on Friday the two commissions of inquiry set up by his administration were not meant to witch-hunt opposition in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that Yusuf spoke while receiving the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado...
Justice Maruf Adegbola of an Oyo High Court on Friday discharged and acquitted a former Director of National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), Mr Ademola Idowu, of bribe charge. Also discharged and acquitted are NIHORT Accountant, Mr Isaiah Ajisafe, David Ikyobo Consultant, and his Company, Messrs Sterling Design and...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), has condoled with the Commissioner for Insurance (CFI), Mr Sunday Thomas over the demised of his wife, Mrs Oyinade Thomas. NAICOM in a condolence message on Friday in Abuja, described the deceased as a pillar to the insurance industry,...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday admitted the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to bail in the sum of N50 million. Emefirle is charged with abuse of office and fraud to the tune of 4.5 billion dollars and N2.8 billion. Justice Rahman Oshodi,...
The Police Command in Kano State has commenced investigation into the circumstances surrounding the alleged beheading of a minor, Mohammed Saidu, by an Almajiri at Kanwa village, Madobi Local Government Area. The Commissioner of Police in the state Mr Usaini Gumel, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has said the late former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu’s impact on Nigeria’s political landscape is immeasurable. Shettima in a statement on Friday in Abuja, described Onu as a true statesman and accomplished Nigerian leader. ” It is with profound sadness...
A Nigerian Scholar, Prof. Wale Adebanwi, has bagged the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship which is awarded on the basis of prior career achievement and exceptional promise. Prof. Adebanwi, who is the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies and Director of Center for Africana Studies at the University of...
The United States expects an attack by Iran against Israel but one that would not be big enough to draw Washington into war, a U.S. fofficial said late on Thursday. The White House said earlier that Washington did not want conflict to spread in the Middle East and...
The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has projected a Return on Investment (ROI) of around N1.67 trillion in 15 years on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway corridor. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 700km Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project is designed to connect Lagos to...
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), Mr Ali Nuhu , has said that recent deaths in the movie industry has robbed the nation of legendary filmmakers. This is contained in a statement signed by Brian Etuk, Director of Public Affairs of the NFC in Abuja....
No fewer than 29 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday, the official news agency WAFA reported. The people died when a residential building was struck. Dozens of people were also injured in the attack. The Israel Defense Force in a statement on Friday, said the...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The family members of the first civilian Governor of Benue State, late Aper Aku are in tears seeking for support from spirited individuals and cooperate organisations to cushion the effect of their suffering. The need to seek for support followed the razing...
The Governors of Abia and Imo as well as other prominent Nigerians have continued to pay glowing tributes to the late former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu. Family sources confirmed the death of the elder statesman in an Abuja hospital on Thursday at the age...
The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has assured property owners along the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway route that a fair and transparent compensation will be paid to those affected. Umahi said this at a press briefing/stakeholders meeting on Lagos-Coastal Highway projects, at Eko Hotel, on Thursday...
President Bola Tinubu has expressed his deepest condolences to the Onu family over the passing of Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, who died on Thursday at 72. The president’s condolence message was contained in a statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, on...
By BARBARA KALU, Asaba – In a successful operation to eradicate illegal weapons in the South South Region, Nigerian Army troops have uncovered an armoury containing significant cache of arms and ammunition at the residence of a gun runner in Olota Community and adjoining communities of Ughelli South...
Some political leaders in Ebonyi have described the sudden demise of Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, a former Abia state governor, and former minister of Science and Innovation under President Muhmmadu Buhari as a “national tragedy”. Onu died at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja on April 11. The leaders who...