•Yero condemns attacks•Govt to pay survivors’ hospital bills Unknown gunmen have killed four policemen and an unidentified person in two attacks on a Divisional Police Station in Kajuru, the headquarters of Kajuru Local Government Area, and in Nungu community, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State reports The Nation.
First Republic Minister of Power and Elder Statesman, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, yesterday lamented that the present generation of leaders have betrayed Nigeria’s founding fathers.
The unending problem of the sale of humans in Igboland especially that of infants born in notorious baby farms have now struck in Ebonyi State. Police in Ebonyi State yesterday arrested two persons over their alleged involvement in the running of a baby factory in Imo State.
After a wait of nearly two years, the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, yesterday received its first-ever international flight, four days to the official landing of international commercial flights.
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The most outstanding issues in Anambra State today regarding the conduct of the incumbent Chief Security Officer and Governor Mr Peter Obi are: 1. Failure of Peter Obi to ensure effective investigation to unravel and/or disclose the whole truth about what happened to Igbo sons at Ezu River, whose naked and half clothed corpses were…
It is alleged that Boko Haram suspects apprehended and detained in a secure military facility in Lagos are no where to be found and may have been summarily executed by security agents in Nigeria. Over three weeks after the Nigerian Army paraded 42 suspected Boko Haram members in Lagos, their whereabouts has been shrouded in…
Lawmakers in Nigeria it has emerged are the highest paid in the world. Former World Bank Vice-President, Africa Region, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, yesterday described the National Assembly as a drain pipe on the nation’s economy, disclosing that Nigeria had spent over N1trn between 2005 and last year mainly on salaries and allowances for legislators.
The army will win the war against insurgency, Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika assured Nigerians yesterday. He said the events of the last two weeks were enough lessons for security agents.
Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has been accussed of misappropriation and embezzlement of funds meant for Local Government administration in the State.