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The Minister of Information and Culture, LAI MOHAMMED, has accused CNN of desperation over its second report on the Lekki toll plaza shootings that happened on October 20. CNN had on Tuesday released a second ‘investigative report’ on the shootings at Lekki toll plaza during the #EndSARS protests amid threats of sanction from the Federal […]
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has apologized to South-South leaders for his absence at the South-South security meeting last Tuesday. President BUHARI, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, IBRAHIM GAMBARI, tendered the apologies while speaking at Rivers State Government House Banquet Hall in Port Harcourt. GAMBARI also told the delegation that the meeting was to […]
The Rivers Judicial Commission of Inquiry into police brutality and violation of fundamental human rights by the Nigeria Police has commenced sitting in Port Harcourt. The Commission Chairperson, Justice CHUKWUNENYE URIRI, said memoranda had been received from affected persons, the general public, corporate bodies, ministries, extra-ministerial departments and agencies, parastatals, groups and individuals.
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced six foreigners and a Nigerian to seven years imprisonment for oil theft. Justice Kolawole Omotosho gave the sentence after three years of prosecution of the convicts by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). They include Mohammed […]
Rivers State Commissioner of Police Joseph Mukan has assured that the erring officer who allegedly shot Gospel Gbaraka a security guard attached to a company in Port Harcourt has been detained and undergoing internal Disciplinary Procedures. The commissioner made this known when the family of the deceased paid him a visit at his office in Port […]
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni, has today, 23rd November, 2020 approved the promotion of Eighty-Two Thousand, Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine (82,779) Junior Police Officers to their next ranks. The promotion of the officers comprising 56,779 Sergeants to Inspector, 17,569 Corporal to Sergeants and 8,431 Constables to Corporal is part of the on-going […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of Borno South Senator, ALI NDUME, over his inability to produce former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, ABDULRASHEED MAINA. The Court ordered that NDUME be remanded in Kuje prison pending when he meets the condition for his release, after MAINA reportedly jumped […]
Some Ogoni youths have expressed anger over the reported killing of one GOSPEL GBARAKA by a police inspector in Port Harcourt. In an interview with journalists, the President-General of the Ogoni Youth Federation, LEGBORSI YAMAABANA, decried the killing of GBARAKA at the premises of an oil servicing company in the Rivers State capital. YAMAABANA said […]
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has condemned the killing of the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Nasarawa State PHILIP SHEKWO. The President challenged the security agencies to “do more” to end violence in Nigeria. The late APC Chairman was kidnapped by gunmen, who stormed his residence in Lafia on Saturday night and was found […]
