By Izunna Okafor, Awka The controversy surrounding the escape of two suspected killers of an Anambra lawmaker, Hon. Justice Azuka, has taken a new turn, with a frontline activist, Comrade Osita Obi demanding the immediate sack of the former Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Itam. Recall that the Spokesperson of the Anambra State Police…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has assured Ndi Anambra that the prime suspects involved in the gruesome murder of Hon. Justice Azuka remain in custody while efforts are being intensified to apprehend two others who recently escaped during a police operation. The CP disclosed this on…
Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State has declared that his crisis with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike led to his freedom to govern the state. Fubara made the remark while receiving the Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Rev Henry Ndukauba and bishops of the church at…
A video which emerged online show the moment the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, ordered that the lawmaker representing the Kogi Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, be ejected out of the Senate for disrupting the plenary session due to an unauthorized change of her seating arrangement. The plenary was in…
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has announced a ban on 60,000-litre fuel tankers from operating on Nigerian roads, effective March 1, 2025. This was disclosed on Wednesday by the NMDPRA Executive Director, Distribution Systems, Storage, and Retailing Infrastructure, Ogbugo Ukoha who revealed that the decision was made in response to the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State has intensified surveillance on its leaders and members, down to the ward level, following the recent defections of two members of the State Working Committee (SWC). The defectors joined the Mazi Organization, a political group led by Mazi Chima Amadi, who is rumored to be preparing…
Former military head of state, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has confirmed that the late Chief Moshood Abiola won the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election. Babangida made the revelation in his autobiography, A Journey in Service, launched in Abuja on Thursday. Through the book’s reviewer, former Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, he acknowledged that…
A massive explosion has devastated two Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) flow stations near the Cawthorne Channel, off the coast of Bonny in Rivers State, destroying essential facilities and raising fears of casualties. The twin blasts, which occurred on Wednesday evening, sent plumes of fire and smoke billowing into the sky, leaving nearby communities…
At least four persons have been reportedly killed in a renewed boundary dispute between the Ogwor community in Ishiagu and the Umuobor Community in Akaeze both in the Ivo local government area of Ebonyi state. Three persons killed were said to be part of a contingent that entered the disputed land to harvest yams on…
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) and the Obi-of-Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, have urged residents of South-East to embrace export business to grow Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and kick out poverty. The Executive Director of NEPC, Nonye Ayeni, made the call in a keynote address on Thursday at a four-day Export Business Roundtable South-East 2025…
