L-R:: Williams Bwala of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO); Hourable Minister of Transportation, Adegboyega Oyetola; Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello Koko; APR-IMO, Mumuni Drissu and Technical Adviser, IMO, Hassan Abubakar, Esq, at the ongoing IMO general assembly in London yesterday. Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA),Continue Reading
Unknown gunmen last Saturday night kidnapped and murdered a traditional ruler, Eze Joe-Benz Ochulor, Olu 1 of Otulu Amumara, in Ezinihitte Mbaise Council Area of Imo state. The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Henry Okoye, confirmed this incident said: “The information is true.” Further more, an eyewitness said theContinue Reading
BY JAMES AKINOLA Three armed robbers were on Sunday eliminated by operatives of the Distress Response Squad (DRS), a special police unit created by Enugu State government to checkmate crime in the state capital. In a video circulating on social media, the lifeless bodies of the criminal gang were seenContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has raided a lounge in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, targeting a night party organised for the abuse of illicit substances. In a Sunday statement, the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said NDLEA operatives also arrested some organisers who were foundContinue Reading
Supporters of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have continued to protest the Appeal Court’s judgment that sacked Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State. But this time, it was the women supporters of the party who took their agitation to the police headquarters in Kano to protest what they calledContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The leader of Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, and other eminent leaders of thought, yesterday, renewed the call for the restructuring of the country to achieve a true federal structure. This call was contained in the messages of goodwill delivered at the presentation ofContinue Reading
…Commissions ultra-modern water project BY GODWIN OBI Enugu State governor, Chief Peter Mbah, has commissioned a 70 million litres per day landmark water scheme at 9th Mile, Enugu. This, coupled with the Oji River Water Scheme revamped by the administration raises the state water production capacity to 120 million litresContinue Reading
The North-East Governors Forum has observed that although the security situation in the region is improving, there is a need for more collaboration among member states in designing the security architecture of the region The forum made this known on Saturday at the end of its ninth meeting held inContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The federal government and other key stakeholders have been urged to sustain the war against maritime insecurity in the country. Professor Ezenwa Ogbonnaya made the appeal in a convocation lecture he gave as part of activities lined up for the first convocation ceremony of the Nigeria MaritimeContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) delivered a blow to drug cartels operating within the nation’s coastal waters and land borders by handing over hard substances, suspected to be Cannabis Sativa and Tramadol, to the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The handover ceremony occurred on Thursday, 23 November 2023,Continue Reading