The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Onne, Port Harcourt Area 11 Command on Friday says it has intercepted a pistol, 9mm munitions and handed over two suspects, to the Nigeria Police Force. The Command was also said to have generated over N246B between January to October,2023. The Command’s Area Controller, Comptroller Baba Imam made this known…
“Does it ever worry us that history which neither personal wealth nor power can pre-empt will pass terrible judgement on us, pronounce anathema on our names when we have accomplished our betrayal and passed on? We have lost the twentieth century; are we bent on seeing that our children lose the twenty-first? God forbids!” (Chinua…
The ruling All Progressives Congress United Kingdom (UK) chapter has reacted to a planned protest against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in London describing it as a misadventure. The Chairman of the UK chapter of the party, Tunde Doherty said this in a press statement issued on Friday in Lagos. Doherty, who also serves as the…
With less than two months before the end of 2023, there are strong indication that the National Population and Housing Census, earlier scheduled for this year, may not hold after all It would be recalled that the National Population Commission (NPC) had initially scheduled a census to be conducted in 2022 after the 2006 population…
Ahead of next weekend’s off- cycle governorship election in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi state a civil society organization (CSO), the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Center, (RULAAC) has expressed concerns about the upcoming polls, questioning the prospects of a fair and credible election in Imo state The CSO also raised alarm over the recent…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has apologised to the people of the state over the recent political crisis that rocked the state on Sunday and Monday He described the crisis as “regrettable anxieties of the last few days,” saying it was important to make sacrifices for peace to reign. Fubara stated this in a statement…
Obum Akunyili, one of the children of a former Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, late Prof. Dora Akunyili, has recounted the final moments of his late father, Chike, before he died. According to Obum, his father would not have died if medical intervention was provided at the…
The issue of godfatherism is not new to Nigerian Politics. Current president Bola Tinubu has always single handedly decides who emerges as governor of Lagos state after completing his two terms Raji Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode were recipients of Tinubu”s dose of godfatherism with Ambode swept aside and yet to recover since then. Former NLC…
The Northern Consensus Movement of Nigeria has vowed to stop the supply of food from the North to the southern part of the country. The group made this threat following a recent ultimatum issued by Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho for the Fulani community to vacate Yorubaland within 10 days….
A planned attack by terrorists in the Gezawa Local Government Area of Kano State has been thwarted by the Nigerian Army and the Department of State Services. Soldiers and operatives of the two agencies, during a joint operation carried out in the early hours of Friday, uncovered the planned attack and apprehended two suspected terrorists….
