Beyond the Headlines
The police have arrested three suspects vandalizing Ameka/Mbom rail track in Umuahia, Abia State. NIGERIAN PILOT gathered the suspects arrested by Police operatives attached to the Railway Command have been identified as Kelechi Ononiwu, 36, Kalu Egbe, 30, Stanley, 27. Our correspondent learnt they were nabbed while removing rail sleepers and loading them into […]
The Abia state government has reacted to the Tuesday attack on traders at the new cattle market located in Omumauzor, Ukwa West Local Government Area of the state. The incident which happened at about 11:35pm, claimed the lives of at least 8 persons while others sustained various degrees of injury. According to a statement […]
Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome(SAN), who is the lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that his client’s sight had deteriorated. Ozekhome told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, that Kanu, who is currently in custody of the Department […]
The Deputy Clerk of the Senate Isabella Ugochi Iloba has formally assumed duty as the Acting Clerk of the Red Chamber. Iloba took over from the outgone Clerk Mr. Ibrahim El-Ladan following his retirement on age grounds. El-Ladan was retired by the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) on February 9, 2022. The Commission had […]
The Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption (PACAC) has criticized the recent decisions by the judiciary which elevated technicality over substantial justice. In a letter signed by its acting head, Professor Saddiq Raddah, the committee cited the cases of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu; the governorship judgments in Rivers, Zamfara and […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has provided more details in the 25kg cocaine bust involving suspended police DCP Abba Kyari. The Media Director, Femi Babafemi, said the agency carried out an evidence-based investigation and its resolve cannot be weakened by misrepresentation of facts. The police had claimed that NDLEA officers at the […]
A yet-to-be-identified commercial bus driver on Tuesday set himself ablaze in the Ajao Estate area of Lagos State. Operatives of the task force from the Lagos State Ministry of Transportation, while on enforcement duties along the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road area connecting Ajao Estate, impounded some shuttles. The driver, whose bus was among […]
Burkina Faso strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated as president on Wednesday, just over three weeks after he led a coup to topple elected head of state Roch Marc Christian Kabore. In a televised ceremony, Damiba swore an oath before the country’s top constitutional body to “preserve, respect, uphold and defend the Constitution”, […]
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari made a simple case of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, too complex for Nigeria. Umeh said continued incarceration of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra by the Federal Government was unjust to the Igbo nation. […]
Security operatives were not seen in major parts of Anambra State on Wednesday following the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The directive was over the appearance of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in court on Wednesday All schools, banks, markets and commercial activities were shut down in all the cities […]
