BY GODWIN OBI Four police officers have been killed in Imo state by suspected bandits in the early hours of Saturday, the police have confirmed. The officers were attached to the divisional police headquarters in Agwa community, Oguta local government area. Police spokesperson, Mike Abattam, said although details of theContinue Reading
BY EFE MODESTUS Palpable fear has gripped natives and residents of South West over recent series of attacks and abductions in the area. They include kidnapping by some gunmen of a traditional ruler, the arrest of suspected about 168 suspected criminal in Ondo and Oyo States. But Amotekun, the SouthContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, is currently reviewing the cost of direct sponsorship of Nigerian cadets undergoing foreign training under the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP). The Director General of NIMASA Dr Bashir Jamoh noted that the review of ongoing sponsorship cost has becomeContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI No fewer than 28 persons were reportedly killed when terrorists launched an attack on Duma village in Tureta Local Government Area of Sokoto State, North-West Nigeria. Eyewitness accounts said, the incident occurred about 8am on Wednesday as the terrorists operated till 7pm without any response from securityContinue Reading
… As ANHA confirms Members of Transition Committees of 21 LGA The Anambra State House of Assembly yesterday confirmed the appointment of the son of the late former Vice President of Nigeria, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Engr. Ogochukwu Ekwueme as the Transition Chairman of the Orumba North Local Government Area ofContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Governing Board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has approved the appointment of three new Directors, Mr. Otonye Obom, Captain Umoren Sunday Michael, and Mr. Kazir Abubakar Musa.The Directors were promoted along with Eighteen Deputy Directors and Twenty Assistant Directors. Four hundred andContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, and that of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, have agreed to set up a working Committee meeting regularly to ensure improved liaison between both organization in the interest of Nigeria. This agreement was reached duringContinue Reading
•Board wants additional soldiers at orientation camps BY GODWIN OBI Director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has been dragged before the Abuja division of the Federal High Court over the continuous existence of scheme given the collapse of security in some parts of the country. The scheme wasContinue Reading
• Gives FG 2-week ultimatum to resolves crisis • Mass protests rock states, Abuja, another planned for FCT BY GODWIN OBI The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), yesterday, made good its threat to shut down the country over ongoing five-months strike by university workers as the first of the two-day protestContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Association of South East Town Unions (ASETU) has utterly condemned the killing of 14 Igbo youths by security operatives at Otulu community in Oru West Local Government Area of Imo State. The national president of the association, Chief Emeka Diwe, in a press statement, Saturday, saidContinue Reading