The recent reactions from certain quarters purportedly claiming to speak on behalf of Igbo/Biafran people in regard with the attempt to make a public announcement by the pro-Biafra freedom group known as Biafra Zionist Federation (BZF) at the studios of Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS), to say the least is quite embarrassing. The Southeast governors’…
The Nigerian police has advised that Nigerians should not draw up conclusions by linking the bomb scare at Winners Chapel Church in Owerri on Sunday June 15th, to men of terror group, Boko HaramAt a press conference organized by the National Information Centre, Abuja yesterday, the Police Force spokesperson, Frank Mba advised that until those…
by ISE-OLUWA IGE …as accussed person petitionsA three-member panel of the National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday sat to grill a Federal High Court judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, over his purported controversial handling of a bail granted to a former Director of Pension Accounts in the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation,…
By Johnson MomoduThe much-awaited national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has come and gone, but the ripples are yet to die down. It was a convention that can best be remembered for the orchestrated humiliation of the party’s so-called leaders in the North.Not only did the former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola…
fuel supplies shut down Some suspected vandals have allegedly punctured petroleum pipeline at the Takwa Bay area of Lagos thereby causing a shut down in the lines of fuel distribution.The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the incident has caused a huge explosion in the area and fire has engulfed the area where the incident…
President Goodluck Jonathan’s refusal to cough out N1 Billion for former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s library project is reason both leaders fell apart, Pointblanknews.com gathered. General Olusegun Obasanjo had conceived the idea of a Presidential library patterned after the Presidential Libraries concept in the United States, which was pioneered by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.A fundraising event…
The Imo State Government has announced far reaching security measures, following the botched bomb attack targeted at the Living Faith Church, Winners Chapel, Owerri on Sunday.Announcing the eight-point measures, yesterday, in Owerri, after several hours of special security meeting he held with security chiefs and a cross section of Imo people, Governor Rochas Okorocha, said…
Gunmen have abducted 78-year-old Patimi Akene, the mother of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Lands and Survey,Bayelsa State Commissioner for Lands and SurveyThe abduction of Patimi came 18 days after Ogboro Orumo, 90-year-old mother-in-law of Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Tombowei Benson, was kidnapped.Orumo’s whereabouts had remained unknown since May 30 when her…
GENEVA – The Islamist militant onslaught in Iraq raises the spectre of a sectarian conflict spilling across the embattled nation’s borders, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday.“I’m deeply concerned about the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Iraq, including the reports of mass summary executions by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),”…
The National Conference Committee on Energy has said that the country is losing about 350,000 barrels of oil per day, estimated at about $35 million, to crude oil theft and called on the Federal Government to wake up from its slumber and tackle the menace frontally.The Chairman of the committee, who is also a former…