SAD: Imo Widow Who Lost Only 2 Sons Within 3 Days Seeks Assistance To Hold Their Burial (Photos)
A 60-year-old Imo widow, Mrs Josephine Nwaeze has urged Nigerians, government and non-governmental organisations, faith-based groups and individuals to support her in offsetting the cost of burying her two sons, Chisimdi Peter Nwaeze, 32 and Chimezie Nwaeze, 30 who died in a space of three days. The distraught widow who had single-handedly raised the two sons, along with their sister...
Soldiers Battle Boko Haram Terrorists In Borno Town, Malam Fatori
Malam Fatori, Abadam Local Goverment Area, Borno State, is under heavy attack by Boko Haram terrorists. Malam Fatori is one of the two LGAs without human activities where Governor Babagana Zulum had insisted on returning displaced persons by December 31. There were 500 mobile police personnel deployed to clear the town in preparation for the return of 1,000 refugees from Niger...
Former Abia CP, Okon Redeployed As New Police AIG Zone 9 Umuahia
Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Ene Okon has been redeployed to Zone 9 police headquarters Umuahia, Abia State, ABN TV reports. Before his redeployment, he was the AIG in charge of zone 12 Bauchi. ABN TV reports that the Akpabuyo, Cross River State-born cop was enlisted into the force as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, (C/ASP) on 15th March,...
Senate Threatens To Arrest Akpabio For Failure To Pay Contactors N2.2bn Fee
The Senate’s Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has summoned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and the Sole Administrator of Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr Effiong Akwa, over non-payment of N2.2bn to contractors. The committee said it was acting on petitions filed by Akom Survey Services Limited over alleged refusal by the minister and the...
Police Arrest 50 Bandits In Katsina, Recover 220 Cows (Photo)
The Katsina State Police Command on Thursday paraded about 50 suspected bandits. Sanusi Buba Sanusi, Commissioner of Police in the state, who spoke with journalists, said 220 cows were rescued during the second quarter of its ongoing onslaught against banditry, armed robbery, cattle rustling and kidnapping. Other items that were recovered by the command according to Sanusi include nine AK 47...
Collateral Damage: Why Majority Of Nigerians Won’t Forgive Buhari — APC Chieftain
Despite routinely begging Nigerians to pardon his misgivings, including harsh policies that bore little or no fruits in the last eight years, a member of the defunct The Buhari Organisation (TBO), and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in Kano State, Alhaji Abdulmajeed Dan-Biliki Kwamanda, yesterday, said that most Nigerians may find it difficult to forgive...
UK Announces £12.6m To Fight Terrorism In Nigeria, Cameroon, Others
The United Kingdom has announced new funds to combat terror in the Lake Chad Basin following the growth of terrorism on the African continent. Specifically in the new funding plan, the United Kingdom will support efforts to combat terror in the Lake Chad Basin region, including £12.6 million this financial year to support Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger, all affected...
IPPIS: ASUU Plunged FG Into N800bn Debt, Says Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said there will be no going back paying University lecturers with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS. While stating that IPPIS had improved the effectiveness and efficiency of payroll administration, Ngige said before its implementation in the university system, the Academic Staff Union of Universities allegedly plunged the...
EFCC Arraigns Man Over Land Fraud In Uyo
The Uyo Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, arraigned one Victor Saviour Uko before Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on one-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N900,000.00. Uko ran into troubles when the...
Angry Youths Burn Church Over Missing Manhoods In Benue State
Angry youths of Daudu community in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, on Tuesday, set ablaze Divine Shadow Church in Daudu over allegation connecting its founder, one Prophet Joshua Uhembe, to the disappearance of male genitals in the community. The youths had three days ago protested on the major Makurdi – Lafia highway over what they described as the...
