BY JAMES AKINOLA No fewer than nine Nigerians who attempted to stowaway to Europe through The Gambia have been received by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos Command. The stowaways had claimed that they were lured into the voyage by some of their friends whoContinue Reading
The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko signed a performance bond for Ministerial Deliverables from 2023 – 2027 with the Honourable Minister of Marine and Blue Economy HE Adegboyega Oyetola MD NPA, Mohammed Bello Koko, Honourable Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, HE AdegboyegaOyetola and Permanent Secretary,Continue Reading
Olukayode Ariwoola CJN court BY GODWIN OBI, ADOLPHUS DURU AND EFE MODESTUS Amid controversies trailing judgments of various courts handling election disputes, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, yesterday, said that public sentiments, and emotions cannot replace the law. “The law remains the law, no matter whoseContinue Reading
L-R:: Williams Bwala of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO); Hourable Minister of Transportation, Adegboyega Oyetola; Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko; APR-IMO, Mumuni Drissu and Technical Adviser, IMO, Hassan Abubakar, Esq, at the ongoing IMO general assembly in London yesterday. Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA),Continue Reading
BY JAMES AKINOLA Three armed robbers were on Sunday eliminated by operatives of the Distress Response Squad (DRS), a special police unit created by Enugu State government to checkmate crime in the state capital. In a video circulating on social media, the lifeless bodies of the criminal gang were seenContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has raided a lounge in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, targeting a night party organised for the abuse of illicit substances. In a Sunday statement, the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said NDLEA operatives also arrested some organisers who were foundContinue Reading
Supporters of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have continued to protest the Appeal Court’s judgment that sacked Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State. But this time, it was the women supporters of the party who took their agitation to the police headquarters in Kano to protest what they calledContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The leader of Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, and other eminent leaders of thought, yesterday, renewed the call for the restructuring of the country to achieve a true federal structure. This call was contained in the messages of goodwill delivered at the presentation ofContinue Reading
…Commissions ultra-modern water project BY GODWIN OBI Enugu State governor, Chief Peter Mbah, has commissioned a 70 million litres per day landmark water scheme at 9th Mile, Enugu. This, coupled with the Oji River Water Scheme revamped by the administration raises the state water production capacity to 120 million litresContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The federal government and other key stakeholders have been urged to sustain the war against maritime insecurity in the country. Professor Ezenwa Ogbonnaya made the appeal in a convocation lecture he gave as part of activities lined up for the first convocation ceremony of the Nigeria MaritimeContinue Reading