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The Kogi State Governor, YAHAYA BELLO, says Nigeria will be a safe place to live when politicians stop the use of thugs and criminals during elections. Governor BELLO spoke on a televised programme, saying contrary to what is in public space, he won November 16, 2019, Governorship Poll without the use of ‘boys’ or thugs. […]
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP JOSEPH MUKAN says the Police Officer who allegedly assaulted a bus driver at Choba/Ada George, Port Harcourt on Monday, December 21, 2020, has been arrested. The Commissioner of Police made the revelation when the State Chairman and Choba branch Chairman of Drivers Welfare Association ISAAC LEKIA and CHILE […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the military and Katsina State government for the successful operation that led to the release of the Kankara School boys abducted last Friday. Buhari stated that the governor of Katsina State has been up and doing since the attack took place and expressed happiness for the release of the boys. […]
The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), UCHE SECONDUS today led a protest demanding the rescue of the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State. The protest tagged #BringBackOurBoys held at the PDP liaison office in Maitama. SECONDUS said the party like most Nigerians were traumatised by the callous […]
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice JOHN TSOHO, has defended the court’s freezing of accounts of alleged promoters of the #EndSARS protests that rocked the country in October. He said that contrary to the belief in some quarters that the court intentionally froze the accounts of #EndSARS promoters, it only played its […]
The Association of Boat Drivers plying the Bonny-Port Harcourt waterways has raised alarm over the continued detention of one of their colleagues, ADVENTIOUS RUFUS, who was attacked by sea pirate. One of the drivers simply known as JONATEX told correspondent AYO ODUNGWERU in a telephone interview that his colleague was detained after filing a statement […]
The Nigerian Army has confirmed that 26 personnel tested positive for COVID-19 following the death of the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 6 Division Port Harcourt, Major GeneralJOHNSON IREFIN. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General SAGIR MUSA, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. General MUSA disclosed that a total of […]
The Coalition of Northern Group says its state chapters will trek to Daura, the country home of President MUHAMMADU BUHARI, in protest against the abduction of 333 students in the State. Under the banner of the #Bringbackourboys campaign, the CNG spokesperson, ABDUL-AZEEZ SULEIMAN, told newsmen that his members would storm the President’s residence today and […]
The Rivers State Chief Judge, Justice ADAMA IYAYE LAMIKANRA has released over one hundred inmates from correctional centers in Port Harcourt, Degema and Ahoada prisons as part of efforts to decongest the facilities. During the jail delivery, fifty-seven inmates were released from Port Harcourt Correctional Center on 30th November and 3rd of December, while forty-two […]
The Federal Government says the call, in some quarters, for the resignation of the President, Major Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over the recent killing of farmers in Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists is “cheap and irresponsible”. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, during a meeting on Thursday in Lagos, said the calls […]
