BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Government on Monday sought the assistance of the United Kingdom, United Nations and other European countries in ongoing efforts to tackle escalating security crisis in the West African sub-region using the G-5 and Sahel platform. This latest appeal came in the wake of a renewedContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Four officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) have been killed after they stepped on a landmine in Galadiman Kogo in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The Corps in a statement by Director Public Relations Headquarters Abuja DCC Odumosu Olusola explained thatContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Bare 30 days after activating navigational aids in Lagos, Federal Government’s regulatory agency on brown water economy, National Inland waterways Authority (NIWA) recently ramped up more safety timelines for Lagos waters by setting up a Search and Rescue centre. To ensure the centre is adequately mannedContinue Reading
To Set Up Regional Maritime Safety and Security Research Center BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the World Maritime University, (WMU) Malmo, Sweden. The move is aimed at enhancing capacity development; to grow the Niger ian maritime sector. Speaking shortly after the signing of the MoU virtually,the Director General of theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted fake $4.7 million cash from Abuja. In a statement issued on Sunday, the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said operatives of the agency had in the early hours of Friday, February 18 stopped a consignment sent fromContinue Reading
BY: GODWIN OBI ON: FEBRUARY 20, 2022 IN: MARITIME By Godwin Obi As the fight against criminality intensifies in Benue State, troops of Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, has reportedly made a breakthrough when it rescued 8 persons from kidnappers den. The rescued locals who hail from Agasha town in Guma local government area, were kidnappedContinue Reading
By Godwin Obi As the fight against criminality intensifies in Benue State, troops of Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, has reportedly made a breakthrough when it rescued 8 persons from kidnappers den. The rescued locals who hail from Agasha town in Guma local government area, were kidnapped on their farms byContinue Reading
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria needs more rebels who will speak truth to power not minding whose ox is gored. The former president stated this on Saturday while unveiling the autobiography of the Babanla Adinni of Egbaland, Tayo Sowunmi, titled ‘Footprints Of A Rebel’ in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu resumed on Wednesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja with him wearing his regular Fendi outfit. This is contrary to the order made by Justice Binta Nyako in December 2021 thatContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) says the recent importation of toxic Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, into the country was not deliberate. It added that there was no way the importers would have known that the petrol contained methanol, as checking for theContinue Reading