The unemployment rate in Anambra state, one of the highest in the country has now reached an all-time high of about 95%. This was disclosed at Amawbia, Awka yesterday at a media chat by one of the front liner in the state’s 2014 governorship race, Dr Ifeatu Ekelem. The United States of America-trained medical expert/specialist…
Some residents of Abakaliki on Thursday counted their losses after Iyiudene River overflowed its banks after a downpour.
It however sent a clear message to the government: We’ll reunite all groups in the region before the polls. To buttress its allegation, the ACF cited the recent visit to President Goodluck Jonathan by some Middle Belt leaders, who urged him to contest the 2015 election. Among the Middle Belt leaders were a former Military…
Maiduguri Traders at Gamboru market in Maiduguri, Borno State, Wednesday, rounded up six suspected Boko Haram gunmen and handed them over to soldiers of the Joint Task Force, JTF, eyewitnesses said. This is even as suspected sect members, yesterday evening, detonated an Improvised Explosive Devise, EID, in the metropolis, targeting the patrol vehicle of the…
NIGERIA’s daily crude oil output declined by 150,000 barrels, as Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, SPDC, joint venture, Thursday, said it has shut the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) following an explosion and fire at a crude theft point on the 28” section of the facility at Bodo West in Ogoni land. To this…
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has advised Abia State indigenes to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the yet-to-be registered All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2015 general elections. Okorocha, who spoke yesterday when a delegation under the platform of Igbo Rescue Mission from Abia State paid him a visit at the…
Many houses and farmlands were submerged yesterday following a downpour in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
Fresh tension is rising in the Niger Delta following the Federal Government’s failure to provide jobs for about 10,000 former militants so far trained by the presidential post-amnesty office. It was learnt that the unemployed amnesty beneficiaries are now roaming the streets and creeks of the region, months after their training. National Mirror learnt that…
Sixteen young ladies whose ages range from 17 to 37 were paraded by the State Security Service (SSS) in Abia State. The ladies were arrested in the early hours of yesterday from a baby factory where they were waiting to deliver and sell their children to prospective buyers. Their loud cries pervaded the hall as…
Nigeria’s military on Wednesday banned the use of satellite phones in much of the restive northeast after cutting mobile phone service, further isolating the area after a series of fresh attacks. The military claimed in announcing the ban that Islamist extremist group Boko Haram had used satellite phones to plan attacks on schools. The insurgents…