Sun Newspaper apologises to Abia Speaker 7 years after libelous publication
The Management of The Sun Publishing Limited, owners and Publishers of the Sun Newspapers has Officially apologized to the Speaker of the Abia state House of Assembly Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji over alleged libel in 2014. The Sun Newspaper's apology to the Speaker is contained in the front page of its Friday 14th February 2020 edition with the bold...
BREAKING: Police Impose 3-Day Curfew After Violence In Bayelsa
The Police in Bayelsa state have imposed three-day dusk to dawn curfew after angry All Progressive Congress (APC) protesters destroyed properties following the Supreme Court ruling which sacked the party’s elected candidate, David Lyon, and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo. According to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Uche Anozia, who made the announcement on Friday, the curfew will last...
Five Die As Heap Of Sand Traps 6 In Kano
Kano State Fire Service has confirmed the death of five out of six people trapped under a heap of sand at Ramin Farar Kasa in Dauni village in Minjibir Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Alhaji Saidu Muhammad, Public Relations Officer of the service said this in a statement on Friday in Kano. “We received a distress call on Thursday afternoon from Dauni...
Midnight fire guts Delta State University hostel
A midnight fire, on Friday, gutted a two-storey Post-Graduate Hostel in Campus Three of the Delta State University, Abraka in Ethiope East Council Area of the state. It was learnt that the fire started about 1:04 am, destroying about 10 rooms before help arrived. But there was no casualty recorded in the inferno. It was gathered that the parts of the hostel...
Abiodun urges FG to make Lagos-Ibadan expressway 10 lanes
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has asked the Federal Government to extend the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, to at least, a ten-lane road. Abiodun made this call when he received the Senate Committee on Works in his office, in Abeokuta, on Thursday. According to him, the road in question is arguably the busiest in the country. This, coupled with the population explosion,...
Ekiti Assembly passes Amotekun Bill into law
Ekiti State House of Assembly, on Friday, passed the bill for the establishment of Ekiti State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps into law. The Speaker, Funminiyi Afuye, said, “Having passed through the third reading, the bill has become a law.” Afuye, who lauded the lawmakers for their “leadership and commitment to the bill,” said the Assembly did not short-circuit any...
Alleged N700m fraud: Judge threatens to withdraw bail for Edo PDP chairman, 3 others
Justice M.G. Umar, of the Federal High Court Benin, on Friday, threatened to revoke the bail granted to Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu, State Chairman of the PDP, Dan Orbih and three others, if they delayed the trial. Ize-Iyamu and others were arraigned on an eight-count charge of conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N700 million. Justice Umar who threatened to revoke...
Bandits, kidnappers operating in national parks, says Senate
The Senate on Thursday lamented the infiltration of national parks by criminals. The red chamber said the “evil elements” lived inside the parks and perpetrated banditry, kidnapping and cattle rustling, which resulted in the killing of rangers and commuters. The upper chamber, therefore, called for the mainstreaming of the National Park Service into the national security architecture in line with the...
Abiodun urges FG to make Lagos-Ibadan expressway 10 lanes
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has asked the Federal Government to extend the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, to at least, a ten-lane road. Abiodun made this call when he received the Senate Committee on Works in his office, in Abeokuta, on Thursday. According to him, the road in question is arguably the busiest in the country. This, coupled with the population explosion,...
Bandits, kidnappers operating in national parks, says Senate
The Senate on Thursday lamented the infiltration of national parks by criminals. The red chamber said the “evil elements” lived inside the parks and perpetrated banditry, kidnapping and cattle rustling, which resulted in the killing of rangers and commuters. The upper chamber, therefore, called for the mainstreaming of the National Park Service into the national security architecture in line with the...
