The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory Command, Joseph Mbu gave a bizarre order last week: henceforth, any resident of Abuja who wishes to refill his gas cylinder would have to obtain a permit from the police as movement of gas cylinders from one place to another in the Federal Capital Territory has been banned!…
Unknown gunmen in the early hours of today killed five people,
by Olusola Fabiyi, Adelani Adepegba, Everest Amaefule and Ade AdesomojuA National Conference delegate, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has asked the National Assembly to reject the request made by President Goodluck Jonathan, asking for the Assembly’s approval for a $1bn loan to aid the war against the Islamic sects, Boko Haram.Falana said the President must explain…
Governor Godswiill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has said Nigeria holds great hope for Africa and called for unity among the people despite their political and religious differences.Akpabio made the observation after the ground-breaking ceremony of the state’s permanent headquarters of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Atan Offot in Uyo performed by the National Chairman…
The Bayelsa Social Media scene has been buzzing with the reports from the Government’s Social Media players that Ex U.S. President, Bill Clinton is billed to deliver the keynote address titled “unlocking Bayelsa State’s economic potential: Opportunities and challenges,” on July 16, 2014, at the state’s two-day maiden Investment and Economic Forum, which will hold…
BY NWABUEZE OKONKWOONITSHA—Ndigbo Unity Forum, NUF, has said that the objection being raised by Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, against the demand by Ohanaeze Ndigbo that the federal government pay N2.6 trillion to Ndigbo as civil war reparation was sabotage against national unity.NUF also said it was absurd that the northerners who seemed to be clamouring…
BY NWABUEZE OKONKWOONITSHA—Reprieve may have come the way of staff of Anambra State Water Corporation and Environmental Protection Agency, as the Industrial Court sitting in Enugu has ordered First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Awka branch, to release N1.5 billion for payment of salary arrears owed them by the government of immediate past governor of the…
BY Emma AmaizeWARRI—SOME groups in the Niger Delta are preparing to return to the creeks following the standoff at the national conference over resource control.The Niger Delta People Salvation Front, NDPSF, led by Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo, in a statement, yesterday, said: “We are stating that going back to the creeks may be inevitably preferable, rather…
President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised to tarry a little, before attempting to declare his second term ambition. Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, stated this at a meeting they had with the President at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday night. Though the governors were in support of the…
Oil exploration activities in Nigeria and other African countries have dropped by 12 per cent between May and June, this year. The drop, according to Global oil industry analysts at Baker Hughes, reflected in the rig count during the period under review. The implication of the finding means that the continent may be producing at…