BY GODDY OBI, EFE MODESTUS & JAMES AKINOLA Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, yesterday, promised to create an environment for students to thrive if elected president. He stated this during a meet with university students in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. Obi, who has enjoyed hugeContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA Domestic airlines have warned passengers to expect flight delays and cancellations during the yuletide as scarcity of aviation fuel has worsened. In a statement, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, who is the spokesman of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), said the impending disruptions in scheduled flight operations is dueContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA No fewer than 37 people have been reportedly killed by bandits during fresh attacks in the Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The attacks took place separately on Sunday night at Malagum 1 and Sokwong communities of Kagoro Chiefdom in the Kaura Local Government Area ofContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI A new Igbo socio-cultural organization named ‘Igboezuo Development Union’ has been unveiled in LagosThe organization, which ended the year with hopes high for the entire Igbos in Lagos state, seeks to protect the interests of Ndigbo in various aspects of life. Speaking at the Year-End-Party of theContinue Reading
•Seizes 5,460.34kgs of skunk in 6 states BY GODDY OBINWA The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted at least 1,760,460 pills of Tramadol and other opioids hidden in Indomie noodles packs and others at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos as well as in Gombe State.Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has lambasted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over what he described as unwarranted media trial of the Kogi State Government as regards the fresh case against a nephew of the Governor and the previousContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBI The National Agency for Food and Drug, Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has again discovered another warehouse in Lagos, where unregistered food products, including sardines, cooking spices, and tomato pastes worth millions of Naira were stashed. The agency had earlier in the week uncovered a warehouse in LagosContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Twenty-four hours after the Central Bank of Nigeria directed deposit money banks to start giving the redesigned naira notes to customers, partygoers, high net worth customers and currency traffickers are mopping up the new notes from the banks even as the notes are being rationed to theContinue Reading
‘ BY GODWIN OBI People of South East extraction living in Finland would be meeting tomorrow to deliberate on the unending sit-at-home orders in the region and the consequences of such orders. A splinter group purporting to be Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been issuing sit-at-home orders, unleashing violenceContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBI The apex Igbo body said the completion of the all-important bridge was indicative that the president could still use the remaining few months in office to pursue some other transcendental objectives which will write his name with gold in the sands of time. National Publicity Secretary ofContinue Reading