Kayode Adelowokan Experts in the public and community health care has identified the high level of insecurity in the North Eastern part of Nigeria as a major challenge affecting the implementation and monitoring of public and community healthcare intervention programmes. The experts said insecurity occasioned by the insurgency of Boko Haram in the North East […]
The United States has deployed 80 members of its armed forces to Chad to help in the search for the kidnapped school girls in Chibok, Borno State. President Barack Obama informed the House speaker and the president of the Senate of the move. The personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos A staff of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Mr. Auta Walbe has raised alarm that his life is in danger crying out that assassins have been trailing him with the aim of terminating his life. This is according to a memo addressed to the Inspector General of Police and […]
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed 118 people dead in the twin bomb explosions that rock the ancient city of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria on Tuesday. But the police disputed the figure, saying it is 46 people who died in the explosion, but noted that more casualties may have been recorded and that […]
Mona Ogbeidi The Nigerian Senate has approved the extension of the emergency rule in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, one week after it received the request by President Goodluck Jonathan. The upper legislative arm of government approved the request after series of meetings with service chiefs on Thursday, but deferred debate on the extension request […]
….Warns Against Exchanging Girls With Sect Members Kayode Adelowokan The President of Woman Arise for Change Initiative (WACI), Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, has said until federal government expose sponsors of Boko Haram sects, there is no way it can achieve permanent solution in the fight against the terrorist group. Okei-Odumakin disclosed this while leading some women […]
Oyewale Oyelola Nigerian Army have handed over Three suspected oil thieves arrested by officers of the Guards Brigade to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) for further investigation and possible prosecution. The suspects: Gbenga Olusegun , Mohammed Yusuf, Auwal Abbas were arrested on May 12, 2014 at Toto Check Point, Keffi, Nasarawa State […]
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri Disturbed by the alarming spate of corruption and insensitivity of political leaders towards the plight of Nigerians, a civil society organization, ” Say No Campaign South East”, has declared war against impunity and corrupt leaders in the five states of the South East zone. The organization, warned that henceforth any leader […]
Kayode Adelowokan Every day may be for the thief but one day is surely for the owner; officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended a suspect described as a specialist in drug concealment. The suspect, Onyejiaju Chukwuemeka Augustine, who has been on the Agency’s wanted list was caught at the Murtala Muhammed […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, has called on Nigerian youths to be disciplined and shun all acts of corruption. Lamorde disclosed this during the inauguration of EFCC Integrity Club at Police Secondary School, Ita-Ogbolu, Akure, Ondo State. The EFCC Boss who was represented by the Deputy Director, Public […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has flayed the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta, over his comment that stealing is not corruption. The ICPC boss recently in Abuja, while hosting a delegation from the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, Nta […]
Sixteen out of the 20 Committees set up by the on-going National Conference to consider certain critical national issues, on Monday submitted their reports at the resumed plenary session of the Conference for consideration and adoption. While 14 of the Committees submitted their reports during the sitting as demanded by the Conference Chairman and […]
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has taken responsibility for Sunday’s attack on pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) refinery in Okrika, Rivers State. MEND, in a statement on Monday dismissed speculations that the attack was carried out by vandals, claiming that the facility was infiltrated by the group. […]
Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola on Monday carpets Christian bodies agitating for a Christian governor in Lagos next year. The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has demanded for a Christian governor to pilot the affairs of the state next year. Fashola, while speaking at an inter-faith conference on “Peace, Religious Harmony and Good […]
The Yoruba race have threatened to break away from Nigeria if the ongoing National Conference does not grant them regional autonomy, accusing the northern delegates of trying to frustrate the Yoruba by kicking against their demands. At a news conference on Monday in Lagos, Nigeria, the Yoruba, under the aegis of The Yoruba People of […]
The All Progressives Congress has won all the 44 chairmanship and 484 councillorship seats in Saturday’s council polls in Kano state. This is contained in a statement signed by Chairman of Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, Dr. Sani Malumfashi, on Sunday in Kano. “The election has been largely successful and peaceful and APC won all […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The Enugu state chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, on Sunday declared that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state has no moral justification to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to court over the disappearance of over 40 percent names of electorate from the voters’ register in the […]
At least 10 people have been reportedly killed as another car bomb explodes at Sabon Gari in the ancient city of Kano in the series of bomb attack on northern Nigeria by the Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram. It was gathered that the explosion went off shortly before 9:30 pm on Sunday. Unofficial source says 10 […]
And like locusts on a mission to invade a farmland, the visibly malnourished and gaunt looking students, in their hundreds, besieged the entrance gate of the school in anxious expectation of their parents and relations. They giggled and hissed intermittently on sighting a stopover of any commercial vehicle at the adjacent bus-stop; on realising the […]
Oyewale Oyelola Delegates at the ongoing national conference in Abuja will resume plenary session on Monday to commence discussion on the recommendations of 20 standing committees of the conference. Conference Assistant Secretary, Media and Communications , Mr James Akpandem on Saturday told Journalists in Abuja that all the National Conference Standing Committees will submit their […]
