Road travel was at full swing on Wednesday at various motor parks in Kaduna State with the passengers trooping in to board vehicles to Abuja. The followed the attack on an Abuja-Kaduna bound train and the subsequent temporary suspension of train services on that route by the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC). Despite stories of […]
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has expressed anger over the sustained invasion of Benue communities and killing of innocent people by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen. The Governor in a statement yesterday in Makurdi by his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur, was reacting to Tuesday’s bloody activities of Fulani herdsmen who reportedly hacked many […]
The Nigeria Police ‘Rescue Me App’ has received over 10,000 fake emergency alerts in four days. This is according to the Acting Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a tweet via his Twitter handle on Wednesday. The Rescue Me App was launched by the police to help citizens in distress to report […]
The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced four people to death by hanging for killing Mr Esther Edomobi at her residence in Cocaine Estate, Obio-Akpor Local Government Area. The convicts, Zakariah Dauda, Inah-inah Edet, Sunday Pius, and Isaac Marcus, have been standing trial since 2008 for conspiracy, armed robbery and […]
Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has been urged to rescind his decision to lock down Onitsha and its environs from tomorrow April 1, to Monday April 4, 2022 . The Human Rights, Liberty Access, and Peace Defenders Foundation (HURIDE), which made the appeal said it would be unnecessary economic waste for the State […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra are protesting the move to name the second River Niger Bridge after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). The group, in a statement on Monday by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, said it rejects naming the bridge after Buhari, “because he came to power and completely […]
Insecurity has been a major concern in Nigeria for over a decade now. Starting from the dreaded Boko Haram group and Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) unleashing terror in the North East to banditry and kidnapping in the North West and violent attacks by Indigenous People of Biafra in the South, Nigeria has […]
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state says members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who are against zoning are selfish. Speaking at a meeting with PDP Senators and members of the House of Representatives in Abuja, Wike said the founding fathers of the party were not wrong in introducing the zoning policy. Wike said, […]
The Ex-Deputy Governor of Imo State, Eze Madumere, on Wednesday called on the Former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, to contest the 2023 presidential election to actualise the Nigeria presidency of Igbo extraction. Madumere, said this in Owerri while commending the outcome of the All Progressives Congress, APC, national convention in Abuja. He […]
Repairs on the damaged portion of the Abuja-Kaduna rail line will commence immediately as the Federal Government is considering recruiting locals for security at blackspot areas. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, disclosed this in Kaduna on Wednesday during a visit to victims of the attack on a Kaduna-bound train by gunmen. Amaechi said […]
