–Stakeholders Commend LTT, LCM for always putting Services, ahead of financial consideration BY GODWIN OBI Maritime industry stakeholders in Apapa have seized the opportunity offered by the International Day of Seafarers (IDASEA) not only to celebrate and motivate but also to enhance bonding, towards boosting workers’ productivity. Nigeria’s foremost dredgers,Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Guinea Bissau President, Umaro Embalo is the new Chairman of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government for the next one year. He was elected at Sunday’s Accra Summit to succeed Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo, who held the position for almost two years. Embalo who was recentlyContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Police have arrested three members of Eiye confraternity for forcefully initiating a young girl into their cult group. The spokesman for the Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest of the suspects in a statement on Sunday. He explained that the trio of Daniel NjokuContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI An Islamic court in Bauchi state has sentenced three men to death by stoning for raping two boys, an official said Friday. Bauchi is among a dozen states in the north where Sharia law is in operation alongside common criminal justice. The court in the town ofContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal on Friday convicted and sentenced Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, senator representing Delta North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, to seven years imprisonment along with his two companies: Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd. This was containedContinue Reading
The Minister of State for Transportation, Sen. Gbemisola Saraki, says the Onitsha river port is positioned to generate over N23billion to the Federal Government in 30 years. Saraki, said during the signing of the concession of the port on Thursday in Abuja, that the port has lots of economic benefitsContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Gunmen have killed persons, injured and abducted many others including four Chinese nationals in an attack on a mining site in Ajata- Aboki, Gurmana Ward of Shiroro Local Government, Niger State. The Co-convener, Concerned Shiroro Youths Of Niger State, Sani Abubakar Yusuf Kokki, as well as theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma says the security situation in his state has not degenerated to the level of asking residents to carry arms. Governor Uzodinma said this while addressing state house correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa and against the backdropContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Action Alliance, (AA) Party, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja, to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), from including the name of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), and its presidential candidate, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu on the ballot of the 2023 Presidential Election.Continue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI A forensic psychologist, Dr. Law Mefor has described David Nwamini Ukpo, the man at the centre of the issues leading to the arrest and remand of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice as a serial liar who should not be taken seriously.Continue Reading