BY GODWIN OBI Troops of Operation Delta Safe have destroyed thirty-one illegal refining sites and also recovered over twelve million litres of illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) in different operations in Delta, Rivers, and Bayelsa states. The Director of Defence Media Operations Major General Bernard Onyeuko said this whileContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Wole Soyinka has lamented the rising level of insecurity in the country, saying many Nigerians go out unsure they would return home safely. He believes the country needs help to tame insecurity. The Nobel laureate spoke on the sidelines of a media briefing held in Lagos onContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI President Muhammadu Buhari has received a report of a new revenue formula submitted by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). The report was submitted to the President on Thursday at the State house Abuja. Also Read: Buhari sues for peace, justice at RamadanThis will beContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the government to comply with the 35% affirmative action for women, which allows women occupy 35% of all appointments. Delivering judgement on Wednesday, Justice Donatus Okorowo, said the Federal Government had the obligation to implement the 35 per centContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Bank of Agriculture (BOA), Alwan Hassan has been released by his abductors. Hassan who was abducted in the ill fated Abuja-Kaduna train last week was released on Wednesday. In a video released by his abductors and flanked by the kidnappers, the BankContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Police in Ogun State have discovered a large expanse of land cultivated for planting Indian hemp. They have also arrested seven suspects who were caught on the farmland. This was disclosed in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police Command, Dsp AbimbolaContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Federal Government has detected over 1,500 workers who presented fake letters of employment to its verification committee. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, revealed this at the ‘National Policy Dialogue on Entrenching Transparency in Public Office Recruitment in Nigeria’ organised byContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Farouk Yahaya has commended troops of Operation Hadin Kai in the Northeast for capturing large number of weapons from the enclave of Boko Haram insurgents during its recent operations in Sambisa forest. The COAS, who was taken round the equipment atContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI A Federal High Court in Abuja has declined jurisdiction in a terrorism charge slammed against Okolie Gloria and Uzoma Benjamin by the Federal Government. Justice Taiwo Taiwo while ruling on a preliminary objection instituted by the defendants where in they challenged the territorial jurisdiction of the AbujaContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Department of State Service, DSS, to pay N5 million to Maxwell Opara, one of the lawyers defending the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. Justice Zainab Abubakar also directed the security agency toContinue Reading