Nigerian authorities gave a marching order for the arrest of the culprits in the tragic incident BY GODWIN OBI A week after the tragic murder of military personnel in Delta State, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, has warned traditional rulers in the state against protecting suspects in the incident. Seventeen military personnelContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Joint Tax Board in Abuja. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, and the Secretary of the Joint Tax Board (JTB), Olusegun Adesokan, signed the MOU at the Customs headquarters on Monday “toContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, says some government officials are profiting from the insecurity ubiquitous in the South-East geopolitical zone. Kanu made this known on Tuesday after he was denied bail by Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High CourtContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Senate has asked the Federal Government to immediately compensate the families of the 17 murdered soldiers. The request was made during a session on Tuesday, as the senators observed a minute silence in honour of the military personnel who lost their lives on Thursday in OkuamaContinue Reading
L-R: Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, NPA Managing Director, Mohammed Bello-Koko and Customs Area Controller, Tin Can Island Port Command, Compt Dera Nnadi BY OUR REPORTER The perennial traffic gridlock along Mile 2 to Tin Can Island Port in Lagos has suddenly disappeared following a joint operation of the NigerianContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said it is in support of the ongoing strike by the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational (NASU) and associated institutions of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and has demanded an “immediate” payment of the withheld salaries of theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Defence Headquarters has released the list of 17 military personnel killed in an attack in Delta State. The military personnel were killed last week in Okuama, a community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State after a peace mission. Days after the gruesome murder,Continue Reading
•Programme gulps N2trn in 21 years •Inside the ICPC damning reportitor BY GODWIN OBI AND JAMES AKINOLA 21 years after senators and members of the House of Representatives forced the Executive to insert Special Intervention Projects (SIP), known as constituency projects, into the budget, it has been one problem afterContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI At least 50 persons, some of them children from neighbouring African countries, were, yesterday, rescued from a duplex on Omola Road, in the Edemola area of Epe, Lagos. News filtered around Epe and the entire Lagos State that the rescued persons, foreigners, were kidnapped and kept inContinue Reading
The Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, has ordered a probe into the tragic killing of four senior officers and 12 soldiers in Delta State. It was gathered that the slain military personnel responded to a distress call after the communal crisis between the Okuama and Okoloba communities, both inContinue Reading