Katsina residents have said that the Nigerian Army is winning the war against bandits only on social media platforms. They particularly said that the Nigerian soldiers were killing bandits on Facebook and Twitter. The residents who described the soldiers claim to killing bandits in Katsina as ‘audio killing’ have since challenged the soldiers to show […]
The Managing Director of Grandi Projetti Construction International Nigeria Limited, Mr. Jack Afara, a Palestinian national,Tuesday, told the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts that he worked on Lamonde Hotel, Owerri, owned by Senator Rochas Okorocha. Afara, who disclosed this while speaking from the witness box, said he did not know that the hotel’s parking […]
By Jennifer John Imo State House of Assembly will remain under lock and key for at least two weeks, to give room for total fumigation of the Assembly Complex, following the report that a lawmaker has contracted the coronavirus. This was disclosed was by the Chairman of Imo State COVID-19 Taskforce, Prof. Maurice Iwu, during […]
Not so long after the altercation of a band of Fulani herdsmen with the Mbaise community in Imo state was resolved, the nomads have again attacked another community in Imo state in an increasing display of arrogant audacity. This time the rampaging nomads attacked and killed an indigene of Obudi Agwa in Oguta council area […]
Police in Imo state around 9am Sunday morning, following a tip off, broke into a locked apartment in the Nekede area of the state and found two supposed lovebirds lying dead in the said apartment. A statement from the Imo State Police spokesman, SP Orlando Ikeokwu read in part: “At about 0900 hrs, acting on […]
A philanthropist and former governorship aspirant, Dr. Law Osondu has said that journalists everywhere should be supported through the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Osondu argued that because journalists report from the frontline does not in any make them immune to the social and economic impacts of the pandemic. He therefore urged government and stakeholders […]
If truly “over 1400 Boko Haram terrorists including their commanders and arms suppliers have been killed in the past two months or since 11th April 2020”; with “about 1000 earlier killed between 1st and 9th of April 2020 by Chadian soldiers led by its President Idris Derby; 1400 “repented” or “low risk Boko Haram combatants” released in Feb […]
By Kelechi Onyemaobi Help and funding are needed urgently for millions of people in Nigeria who have been hit severely by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, including conflict-hit communities “on life-support” in the north-east, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. More than $182 million is needed to sustain lifesaving aid to Africa’s most populous country […]
President Muhammadu says the Federal Government has deployed 5,000 Civil Defence Agro-Rangers to offer protection to farming investments. In a national broadcast to commemorate the 2020 Democracy Day on Friday, the president reiterated his administration’s commitment to diversifying the economy, noting that agriculture remains “the key” to this strategy. The Agro Rangers is a special […]
Justice Jude Okeke of Federal Capital Territory High Court has slated July 6, 2020, for ruling on the eligibility of a prosecution witness to testify in the on-going trial of former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal for alleged N500 million (Five Hundred Million Naira), grass-cutting scam. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]
