We Never Recovered 5,000 Guns From Aba Mosque, Says Abia CP
The Abia state Commissioner of Police, CP Janet E. Agbede has called on the people of the State to ignore viral video showing a cache of arms alleged to have been recovered from the mosque located at Onions Market, Uratta respectively both in Abia State, saying there is no truth in such. The Commissioner in a release signed by the...
Nurse Accused Of Stealing Baby After She Was Caught With Newborn Outside Hospital Premises (Video)
A nurse was caught carrying a newborn baby boy far from the hospital where she works and she was confronted by passersby who accused her of stealing the baby. ABN TV reports that the nurse was seen standing by the side of the road, carrying a newborn baby boy with the placenta still intact. She claimed she was waiting for...
FEC Approves N623m For Customs To Buy Computers
The federal executive council, FEC has approved N623 million for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to purchase computers in all its zonal and area commands. Speaking with reporters after the FEC meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information, said the money was approved after Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance presented a memo. The minister said the N623 million...
Police Arrest 10 Suspects For Flogging Pastor Over Facebook Post Against Politician
Ebonyi State Police Command said it has arrested 10 suspects in connection with the flogging of one pastor Oko Chukwu Obeni, 30, of Ndukwe Amasiri Village in Afikpo North local government area of Ebonyi State. It was alleged that the victim was flogged over 36 strokes of the cane because of the post he made on Facebook against the...
Ikpeazu Assures Abians Of Quality Reconstruction Of Roads In Aba
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state has assured the people of Aba and the entire State that his administration will do an excellent job in the total reconstruction Ngwa, Uratta, Port Harcourt, Ohanku and Obohia roads. Speaking for the very first time on the impending reconstruction works on the roads today on a live radio programme on Magic FM...
Nothing Like Niger-Delta Or South-South – Nnamdi Kanu
The Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has faulted the establishment of Niger-Delta and South-South in Nigeria. In a statement Nnamdi Kanu sent to Vanguard, through Emma Powerful, the group’s publicity secretary, Kanu argued that Abia, Cross River, Akwa Ibom are the same people. Nnamdi Kanu said there is nothing like Niger-Delta or South-South,...
Giving Palliatives To Pastors, Imams Will End Agitation To Reopen Worship Centres – MURIC
The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC has asked state governments to consider giving palliatives to imams and pastors to cushion the effect of COVID-19 measures on them. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Ishaq Akintola, MURIC director, said the palliatives will address the agitation to reopen churches and mosques. “The open demand by certain religious leaders for their places of worship to be...
Lagos Doctors Begin Indefinite Sit-At-Home Strike To Protest Police Harassment
The Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA has directed members to embark on a Sit-at-Home strike to protest alleged harassment of its member at the frontline of Covid-19 by security operatives. The group accused the Police in Lagos of Harassment of its members through conflicting directives on the status of essential workers. In a press statement, the association...
Senate Orders Suspension Of Planned Electricity Tariff Hike
The Senate on Tuesday told the Federal Government to suspend the planned electricity tariff increase, expected to take effect in July, citing hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic. However, the upper legislative chamber lauded the Federal Government for its initiative to establish the N1.7 trillion COVID-19 Crisis Intervention Fund. It also called on government, through the Federal Ministry of Finance, to...
Curfew: IGP Flouts Buhari’s Directive, Arrests Journalists, Doctors, Others
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, contrary to a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday ordered police commands not to exempt anybody, including workers on essential duties, when enforcing the ban on interstate movements and the nationwide curfew. The IG gave the directive to the zonal assistant-inspectors general of police and state commissioners of police during a virtual...
